Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-23

fhe Globe lex cathedra) declares that " Major
Eaton is done with Mr.. Berrien and tie paper
,car. He will not notice again his public appeals
II there be any thing, however, in the pubiica-
ton Of Maj. Eaton, which Mr.. Berrien may
think wrongs his honor, Maj Eaton. although he
has left Washington, will not hesitate to return
TO make all proper amends" This quite bel
igerent, and as the European journalists say,
puts things in - warlke attitude" Mr.. Berri-
en-, we presume however, still declines the call
of "pistols for two"
We extract the following sentiments from an
editorial article in the Cincinnati Gazette, the able
editor of which paper has never been accused OF
want Of independence. The sentiments express
ed below we adopt entirely. The picture Of the
American Press, we are sorry to think, is faith
fully drawn, though ION the ''signs of the times"
We begin to look for something Detter:-
The intolerance of party is an affair Of much
public concern. 1t rules the newspaper press
with almost despOtic sway. The vocation of an
editor is no longer that of an independent man,
carefully examining public events q impartlally
communicating to the public the honest conclusion
Of his own Judgment upon them. Far from it.
in religion, in politics. in literature, the Per,odi-
cal press Is expected TO take a side and to main
tain it. An editor is regarded as an advocate. 1t
is not required of him to search TOR, and promul
gate the truth, the first, great duty he owes to
bis patrons On the contrary, he is expected to
maintain the cause he espouses by every possible
arti6ce. The part assigned HIM is that of a mi
l,,a IN hof ov rs h,ttl doc
tou of stratagem that may mislead or confound
his opponents may be resorted to, every feint and
every ambuscade which his party may attempt
must be supported BY him. HIS failure to do so,
is accounted treachery and desertion, and sub
iects him to denunciation as renegade.
All parties agree that the American newspa-
per press is previously icentious: and yet none
can pretend that it is free. The only freedom per-
mitted TO IT. is to revile those with whom it does
not act. TO suggest that an associate may be in
error, is cause of suspicion; to acknowledge VIZ
tue IN an opponent is more so; to speak the plain
truth, when the party prefers something else, and
has agreed to be deceived tor the common good.
is pettit treason. But 20 investigate or question,
the propriety of measure. that the party have
resutyed with or without due consideration, to
adopt, Is treason Of the highest grade that can
GELS al, former services, in an instant.
This is not As il should be. The people of
great nation should not RELY Upon conceaiments
as means of eicctIng their highest functonaries.
Honorable men should not countenance the pro-
POSITION of etfccting honorable objects. by ques-
tionable means. The newspaper press should be
the vehicle OF correct information. All pGOc
measures should be based upon full view Oh pub
lie sentiment as well as of public interest
We find the following in the American Repub-
lican, printed at Westche,ter, the residence OF
Gen BERNARD, in Pennsylvania:
eve understand thqt GenH"al nZGsATD az
tends forwarding 10 the Governor OF the stat" MS
resignation as member of the Senate ct the tnit-
ed States, to be laid before the Legislature al its
next meeting in December. I0iS step Is the re-
suit of a determination long since formed, and
communicated to some q no fieGds, to retire at
the close of the last Congress. rs the next Lee
sisIature will have to choose his successor, 1t Is
proper, perhaps, that the pubic should now be
informed of the resignation. His intention Il to
resume the profession of the law"
Jara.-The government Of Holland have publicly
notified that they had received very recent intel
ligence from Batavia, that every thing was quiet,
and that nothing indicated change in the es-
tablished order Of thinss.slt is probable, there
fore. that the accountssJe win the Be'g ian news
papers OF revolt os<l(6e Island, which had led
to the overthrow of the Dutch authorities there,
is incorrect
'Tnis is IN give r<ntice,