Concord Register

The Editor of the Patriot, with characteristic malignity and personality, has seen fit to assail the late Selectmen of this town: one of them in particular, as Moderator of the late town meeting, comes in for an unusual share of Patriot vengeance. The Editor, in effect, charges them with corruption; with a sacrifice of solemn official duty to miserable party purposes. Did not the character of these gentlemen afford them complete security against the calumny of the Patriot, the reputation of that paper would render perfectly harmless all its attempts to charge upon them a want of integrity and faithfulness in the discharge of their official duties.

The Patriot man prates about the "personal favors" he has done these gentlemen. Name them, Mr. Hill; and the "respectable gentlemen" who are your compurgators. You would find as "plentiful a lack" of the one as the other; unless, forsooth, you "reckon" your Patriot abuses "personal favors."

What a pity "the old Selectmen" had not "called" on the Patriot Editor. He would have received them very graciously. He would have even condescended to give them only a necessary and "wholesome" castigation, and then perhaps bestowed upon them further "personal favors." It must have been a very gratifying spectacle to the good people of Concord, to see their "old Selectmen" walking in solemn pace, into the Patriot office, with twenty or thirty boys at their heels, to be arraigned before Isaac Hill, surrounded with his "respectable gentlemen;" and after paying him for thus far "heating the poker," ask, in return, as a further "favor," that he would be graciously pleased to grant them absolution from the further effect of his notoriously false and groundless charges against them.