The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

"It is a subject of regret that the Worcester Spy should have thought it necessary to forestall the convention in the nomination of a candidate for Representative to Congress from this district, especially, as in the same paper it was made known that a convention was to be held."

Lancaster Gazette.

We have found it so difficult to suit all our friends in the North District, that we have, long since, come to the conclusion to pursue what we considered a correct and independent course in relation to their politics, without particular reference to the consequences. In pursuance of that determination, we did, on the information that the present incumbent was a candidate for re-election, insert his name as such, being requested so to do; yet without any desire to forestall the convention. The course we have uniformly pursued, has been to publish the name of any suitable person, as a candidate for office, on the request of a respectable person. Of the effect of that course, neither the friends of the present incumbent, nor of the candidate nominated at Westminster, have, in our opinion, any cause to complain. Such is the estimation in which both those gentlemen are held by us, and such our regard to delicacy in interfering in the concerns of another district, that in any contest which might arise between them, for the highly responsible office of Representative to Congress, whatever might be our opinion of their relative merits, we should endeavor to maintain a strict neutrality. With that intention, when, four years ago, we received a request to put the latter in nomination, we did so, and, as he was first nominated, we continued his name at the head of the list. Yet that course, so obviously correct, was a subject of much complaint, and was construed, most unjustly, into a desire to influence the electors. In conclusion we must express our regret that one so well acquainted with the difficulties which beset the editorial path, as is our brother Andrews, should have penned the paragraph from which the above extract is made. He cannot suppose that the calling of a convention debarred any person from the privilege of making such nomination as he chose, either before or after the meeting, or that such nomination could, in the least, diminish the influence to which the proceedings of the convention were entitled.