Conclusion of the Salem Controversy (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Conclusion of the Salem Controversy From the Salem Gazette, April 8, 1834. Mr. Editor, - Instead of availing myself of my right to answer Mr. Cheever again at length, 1 would refer the reader to your advertising columns where his attention will be directed to the pamphlets which contain my previous replies to the articles in your paper signed "A Lover of Cudworth and Truth." They will be found to contain what appear to me to be sufficient answers to almost every thing he has since published over that much abused signature. I have too much respect for your readers, and for myself, to traverse the same ground over and over again. I must, however, inform them, as some may not be aware of the fact, that in Mr. Cheever´s last series of communications he has reprinted, besides what he has acknowledged, a considerable part of the third volume of the Spirit of the Pilgrims. Four successive numbers were made up in this way, with the exception of one or two connecting paragraphs. The articles thus copied out from that printed book, were not written by Mr. Cheever, as he himself obscurely intimates; but still the same ill-fated "Lover of Cudworth and Truth" is made "to bear the burden and the shame." In the Gazette of Feb. 28th, for instance, there are nearly five columns, beginning with "Communication," and ending with "A Lover of Cudworth and Truth." These are the only words in the whole article which Mr. Cheever wrote. Every syllable between them is to be found in the "Spirit of the Pilgrims" vol.3, p.7 - 17! Is there an individual among your subscribers who suspected when he read it that not a single syllable of it was written by Mr. Cheever? The deception was indeed complete. There are, in fact, no indications whatever, throughout the piece, that it is borrowed from another writer; and it bears as many marks of originality as any which have appeared. This is indeed an easy way to conduct a controversy! It enables a writer to continue to print indefinitely after he has become utterly exhausted! And if you, Mr. Editor, had thought it expedient to lend your columns to a discussion, carried on in this manner, I know not how it could have been brought to a close until all the books in the country had been republished in the Gazette. If Mr. Cheever had confined himself to original matter, and relied upon his own resources, he could not have drawn me out again; and I wish the reader to bear in mind that the few pieces I am now to submit to his perusal, are intended principally as a reply to the arguments of those authors whose productions he has republished in such a manner as to lead the great body of his readers to consider them his own. I shall avail myself of the opportunity to promote the diffusion of more correct views on some topics brought into notice in his articles. I have no disposition to prolong the discussion with a person who can condescend to such practices as he has adopted in this controversy. In one of his pieces he thought to terrify me with the idea of a prosecution. This is a delicate point for him to introduce, and all that it is necessary for me to say in reference to it is, that if the civil guardians of society are of opinion that the seat of justice should be held sacred from outrage, he will have to answer, before the proper tribunal, for such an assault upon our highest Court as has never been committed before in Massachusetts. It would weary your readers, and cover your columns, were I to relate, in detail, the misrepresentations, misquotations, and various literary frauds he has perpetrated in the course of the discussion. They have been continued without abatement to the close of his last pieces. I fully expected that his offences would have become the occasion of
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