Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-31
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moNnAY. MAY 81. 1858.
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nnr nsigbbors OF the Springfield Republican
,Dns.r 10 have taken upon themselves the bust
ness not only of managing the Republican party,
hn, also thatoi debating TO the Governor and
conbolng the action of the Council. In the
nlenituds Of that self.suficient egotism which
Is so Characteristic Of that Journal, it has
assumed to raise its Ebenezer in opposition to
the constituted thorities, as regards appoint
ment and removal from office, to characterize
in private dispatches to the Governor the mere
proposition to rotate out of office one Of its pets
as "damnable business,"s and to threaten . a
row" generally in all the four Western counties
as the result Of the removal of DR.. Brooks from
the superintendeney Of the State Aims House
at Monson. Not standing in awe of the Repu5
beans private dispatches, the Council, by
unanimous vote, requested his Exeellency to
remove DR.. Brooks from his Office, which
DONE and, smarting under its ill-concealed disap.
pointment; at its want Of influence at the State
House, the Republican has, for the past lew days,
in series of articles, poured out the walls Of its
wrath in terms so violently abusive, would have
rendered them grossly insulting to the Executive,
and to the Council, individually and collectively,
were it not, that they carried with them such
evidences Of hasty temper and passionate excite.
ment as to render their authors only subjects of
derision.
The facts in the case. which have ELECTED this
ebullitlon of frenzied rage and passionate vtuper-
alton, may be very briefly stated DR.. Brooks
was, when the present Administration came into
power, Superin tendent-of the State Aims H ouse
at Monson We do not know what were his pol
itics at the time or what were his political ante
cedents, but we have heard that there were many
and serious complaints against his management,
which were of public notoriety long before any
action was taken for his removal, and that, in con-
sequence of these complaints, the subject of his
removal was mooted at the Council board. The
doctor was personal friend IF our Springfield
cotem porary, and DESTROYS of retaining him in his
place it undertook to do it, in just the way least
likely to succeed with the present Executive, viz
BY dictation and threats-by the forwarding to
Boston of the profane and threatening dispatch
to which we have already alluded. Having so
far failed in its object, and wanting the manli-
ness and straight-forwardness of conduct that
would prompt it to pitch into the Governor open.
ly, for the hand which he had in the matter of
ceeded to abuse him, indirectly, by means of re-
fectlons upon the members Of his Council, and of
the Council as a body, and to insinuate charges
of disagreement and want of harmony between
those coordinate branches of the Government
which have no foundation in truth.
The Council having voted unanimously that
d. Brooks should be removed from office, that
body Immediately lost caste in the eyes of the
Republican. 1t was, to use its own expressions,
a "useless appendage to the Government % it
was "a contemplate Council its members were
set of useless and meddlesome men" and
''Ipottering politicians" it had done "a mean
unmanly, and duty'thing, and should make the
Council despse themselves &c.
Like the hero in the well-known comedy, the
Republican Immediately displayed the signals of
its wrath, and virtually said, with him-thOugh
in language less elegant and refined
"who dares for these bonts displaes
Mu meet Bombastes face to face"
Having demolished the Council, grati6ed its
spleen by bitter personal attack upon Mr..
Rogers. the member from this district, and in
duged in a coarse fling at Gov. Banks as a sort
Of climax TO its vituperations adding to its
invectives against his constitutional advisers
"Ws ksop of no man connected a0uh this matter
soho comes out Clean" the Republican continues
to follow up the subject, and in its issue of
Friday, assn accompaniment to letter which
Mr.. Rogers addressed to it in reply to its per-
sOnalities, again plunges into personal abuse of
him and the Council.
We do not attach any great importance to this
attempted ROW in the four Western countless,
nd mr. bav ll,3a N = .1Ih
the pertnacity and unfarness of the Republicans
personal assaults upon the member of the Coun-
Gil from this district who, so far as we can learn,
has acted as an honorable and hgh-minded man
should act in such matter, and who does not ap-
pear to have been actuated in his course by any
other motive than that Of an honest performance
of his official duty, as the public good required.
His letter to the Republican, which contains his
own yindication of his conduct, we publish in
another column, although we think there are few
people, either in Central Massachusetts, the
four Western COUNTESS" OF elsewhere, who
have watched the progress of the controversy.
WHO have been deceived by the bluster and gas
conade Of the Republican However creditable
it is to see an exhibition Of friendship between
man and man, such as appears to exist between
DR.. Brooks and the editors of the Republican, it
is not creditable to see a man attempt to discred-
it and disgrace his party in the eyes of the world,
except upon just and reasonable grounds.
The beautiful story Of Damon and Pythias would
lose all its grandeur, if, instead Of the one offer
ing his life for his friend, he had only rushed to
tae scene Of execution to BLACKBOARD the council
who condemned, and to throw mud at the execu
toner while in the performance Of his official
duties. And there is lesson in this, which the
ReDubgicon would do well to consider