Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-03-20
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r,,,snAy MORNING. MARCH 20, 1897.

1OESD-s-
Th. excitement of party feelings often brings
into notice who would otherwise never be
,,o~u bu, in limited circle. Such is the case
8 The redoubtable General Saunders, OF North
c,,o,;na, who has rendered himself conspicu-
one bv volunteering as one Of the FIGHTING
.y,xpross of his party, and Immediately shrink
ing from the responsibility of his new Office
Co entirely has he disguised his political friends,
Nv stunning Messrs. Buckner and Johnston OF
vsn,ucky. and challenging the deeripid anu
,,rblird MIR. Wright, Of Ohio, that he has
Seen driven TO decline a poll for reelection
Portraits Of prominent men, no matter now INC
a,;a;,a,s NAV have risen IN the world, are en-
I'D n nublic attention. We therefore piase
b,sore our readers full length Likeness; oil the
North Carolina Hero, painted in hne style anu
with prea, accuracy, by his contemporary Nir'
Wright. The picture will be fouEd IN aho'ner
column.
The Editors of the Albany Daily Advertiser
cow Messrs Gales and Sea,ons structures uPo"
the political management, Of Mr.. Van Buren, Z
acknowledge them to be "a correct portra"ure
IF The Man, who has ever been more distin-
yuisbed as 4 party eipEnar'an than as state
man" The editors condemn their Senators,
Nolan for the improvement Of the press, and add
chat Mr.. Van Buren understands this kind OF
Business WE'LL much better in our humble oPin'
ion, than he does the proper management o; the
Affairs of the nation lis here that his forte
lies, and he considers the improvement OF the
prrss as the very key to party discipline. He
has improved press in this city TO some pur'
mise. aud made its editor mere nose OF wax,
20 be shaped in such form as he shall direct"
If the freedom and purity OF the Press be
worth preserving, the following remarks, by the
Editor Of the Trenton True American, are en-
,i,led to consideration:
Virus and Merns-It is known to the public
,ha, hundreds of dollars raised by private con-
tribu,ion, besides the $500 given by Gen la.
ton, were employed by the adsoI ates OF General
Jackson for the presidency, to aid the editor oil
the late Columbian Observer, in Philadelphia,
in furiously assailing Mr.. Adams, Mr. Clay,
Mr.. Crawford, and their friends, and in Witty
ing their characters, because they stood IN the
wsy of. or would not fall down and worship the
General as their idol Thirty thousand dollars
are also well understood 10 have been raised, TO
nav Duff Green, one Of the most accomplished
blackguards in the nation, for printing and pub
fishing the y s. Telegraph, and for circulating
thousands Of his papers filled with abuse Of Mr.
Clay, and MIR. Adams and their friends, free Of
expense, among the people Of the different
states. Other presses have sprung up since,
that have probably been established and sup
ported in the same way; as substituting and cor
rupling the Lress, appears 10 be one principal
mean. used by the leaders of the opposition to
effee, their purposes. IL addition to what has
already been disclosed on this subject, we were
informed by an opposition gentleman, short
time since, who pretended to know, out VINO
could not, it appears. keep the secrets OF his
party, that they must succeed, as they had fund
Of $4,000, which they INTENDED to employ
in establishing presses in the several states,
which were TO be employed in writing down
the admins ,ralon, and argued from this, that
Mr.. Adams could not be reelected Attempts
have been made, we are well assured, TO pur-
chase two other presses, that are now establish
cd, or 10 employ their editors IN slandering the
administration, under the promises OF large
supplies and liberal support; but happily with.
on, effect; the editors Of those papers being too
pure, too honest, and too high-minded, TO be
thus bought up. 1t is thus, that the leaders Of
the opposition, (no, the people,) are determin-
ed TO control public opinion, and eorruPtly ele-
vate themselves TO Office, over the ruins Of those,
who now preside over the nation.