Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-24

exposed in different prints. In a suppIemsn,
TO line National In,elligencer, of March ab
1927, was published Mr.. Francis Johnson
speech, delivered in The House OF Represent,
tiyes on the 10th Of the preceding month. AMI
containing the following passage, viz: SON
g time ago saw publication in ,ha, ,r;r,
| +" H. e. The Richmond Enquirer, purpor,ipr,''
I" be letter from member OF Congress !,
g which the writer stated that he had jus, tb.n
" returned from the Presidents, where he had
been 1t was New Year, and he had b.sr
lin the East Room of the house, ard b,
spoke off, as being most splenddly funisb,d
out of the $4,000 appropriated at the Ian
&C session. No,o ecery member Of This House do,,
g kno,o, that moi one cent Of that money has be-,
4" dra,cn from, the Treasury, and every man and
g woman, boy and girl, who was at the prps.
g dents on New Year, knows that there wasr,
(" furniture in the room except few old char.
{" and an old set!ee or Two, altogether ocoyih bo,a
Z" Terry fen dollars. Now it is impossible 10 nv
mind that any member OF Congress couIj
" have written such aleller, have 60 ,houyf,
Z" or belief that any member did write it. II,
Editor has been so credulous as to suffer him.
self TO be imposed OIL by some anorymou,
!" writer, or he has Willingly imposed i, on hi;
6 readers. What could have been the obiae,
IS for the publication OF such letter, ca0ro,
4" conceive, unless il was 10 add 10 that excite
" ment, which had been already created ,he..
" against the President"
On the eth Of April, the Editors Of The En-.
auirer published, professedly "wiih great Plea,
sure" letter signed "FAIR Play" ADDRESSED
TO them in the Petersburg Intelligencer. "FMa
PLAY here quoted from the Washington letter
as published in the Enquirer; called the a,ten.
lion of the Editors Of that paper TO Mr. John
sons speech: * very properly addcd-"I think
/" il aduy you owe your country & yourselves
:" TO ferril out this impostor, who has palmcd
6 this tick upon you, and drag him before tie
" public. If his be not satisfactorily explain.
" ed, it will go abroad the settled opinion hs,
"the Virginia opposition to the present Al.
" ministra,ion is bols,ered up by intrigue. fraud
ss and management" To this manly appeal to
their candor, the Editors answered "lhe &C.
" coun, TO which the writer refers, respecting
"the East room, was forwarded to US, as it pur.
b" ports, by one Of the most intelligent and dis.
" hngnished members Of Congress. He has never
" vet seen fit 10 ,etouch his statement, and cor.
8 rect his errors, i he has made any. Aaotda
" respectable member Of Congress subsequently
/" sent Oh q statement 10 correct the alleged or.
" rors in the first; but ON account Of some differ
enee of opinion as 10 The FORM in which this last
" communication should appear, IT WAS NEVER
" puBLIsHED-and upon applying for il recent
" ". il is found that the letter containing il has
" been DESTROYED. We should have noticed
" MIR Johnson's remarks at the time they were
I" published, but Mr. ]. is an incorporate parti'
F." san, whose statements are subject 10 take The
" color Of his own feelings; and besides, in the
" remarks in question, there was marked
" want Of courtesy to the Editors of this paper,
I" 81. - pre-, caisd sur paying him the sespss;
T "of republishing his remarks"
Now. surely this is most extraordinary Ian
I puaE,e editors can publish an extract ola
letter from one member of Congress, without
any scrupl,s as to what "form" it should appear
in; (for it is not presumable that the writer in.
sisted that his name should accompany the
publication And yet they refused on the
ground of 'Jorm,'' to publish statement fur.
nished to them by another member of Congress
Correcting the "alledged errors in the letter.
II y were told by third member of Congress,
Hing in his place in the House of Represen.
Is, that the statement in the letter was
j land yet refused to avail themselves OF this
m gtmation. accompanied as it was by an ap.
psalio the whole House for its truth, because
BE had not, in their opinion treated them with
courtesy!,' AS 10 their objection, that "Nr
Jshnson is an incorporate partisan whose
/" statements are aptto take the color ofhs own
" feelings" it is really too puerile for notice
Could the editors possibly believe that MIR
! Jokason would ,en'ure % assert in his place in
II use OF Repre- sentatives, that "eeery mem.
The House does ktoW Esai not one cenig
itoesfy fire thousand dollars, aledsed 10 haze
b appended on ats E2dsf room has been d,nes
the Treasury" unless such were the fact!
I'D any man who was not an itlcot, utter
sabod which must be exposed as soou as
pken;-and especially when,bS writing let.
traM Washington, and having it published
properai o,m'he could publish lie safely"
I'D regard TO Mr.. Jo1nson's "want of courte
TO the editors, hdid not, had he been gull
.sysof il, furnishthern with the least excuse for
omillnato coniradic, he faIsehood of which
their press had been made the vehicle. But in
point OF fhct, no such swami Of courtesy exist
ed. MIR. johnson expressed veryv6aturai be-
lirfthat no member Of Congress wrote the Ir:
ter; anslthcn stated that The editors had either
l'eenein,posed on by some anonymous writer, Or
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