Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-03-02
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TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH !, 1854.

abuse and recrimrnation, now waged against each
other by the most conspicuous Jackson Journals.
We trust that neither remarks, nor the articles
repubshed below, wall be construed into appreciation
OF news paper Righteousness in the abstract 1t is
The character of the parties who give aud take the
abuse and not the abuse ITSELF which affords graft
ication. These gentlemen made common cause
what Mr. Cambreleng calls the holy cause of caum-
n.y. against the late administration Adams and
Clay were RFally lied and abused, out of power, and
out of the confidence of their country Who then
can feel any great sympathy for the infections thew
have now mutually to sustain from each other? ANY
great regret, that having destroyed better mon than
themselves by calumny, they should scorpon-like
urn their stings upon each other in default of
Common enemy Nay, who would shed tears were
Duff, the Lieutenant, our venerable contemporary,
and he of the Globe, to act over the Kilkenny ira
gedy! Lay on, Duff!-courage, Blar!-well done
Lheutenant!-at em again, Richie! We wish all
these gentlemen courage to continue the combat to
extremity, with such their political homes
~ and their treatment of others, deserve.
There is growing feud between Duff and our
contemporary of this city, which only requires Iudci-
Gus nourshment to urge into 4 regular set to. In
his paper of Saturday, Duff speaks of the Richmond
Enquirer and other papers, progressing to be Republl
CAN'T" Indeed! Besides This embryo affair, the most
rancorous personal controversies are being waged
between Duff and the Globe Duff and the Lieutenant
of the Courier at New York, and the Pennsylvania
Inquirer and its sake at this city--a leading
Jackson papers. What u commentary on the party!
How decisive the proof of the hoowness and selfish
ness Of the principles which united them! How il
reragable the evidence OF the dispersion the Jack
spn party, and the utter hopeessness of it's rcunon
1t was obliged to be and could not be otherwise
We have known it ALWAYS and repeated it a hundred
times; and now is the poisoned chalice of which Hen
~ Clay has been made to drink long and so deep
ly, commended back to their lips who prepared it.
Hes-a civil war of SANDER and abuse of the most
virulent description, which has already drawn in
largo number of his chief prosecutors has commenc
ed, and is extending itself the Union, invading
the sancti;y of private feeling and ravagng personal
and public character. Nationally, the spectacle is
reveltsg-InorelJy, it ought to be viewed as just
retributon upon those who have fallen into the pit
dug for others.
As specimens of the acrnony of these family quar-
sels, we mako two eXtracts-oUe from the New York
Courier g. Enquirer, the other from the Pcnnsylva-
MIA Inquirer The reader Will be amused b. pc
rusal
From the New York Courier & Enquirer, Feb 70.
THE UNITED STATES TELEGRAPu The Editor
Of this print having been reelected Printer to Con
gPess it believed by many that he would, by pYu-
dence, and mild, inoffensive course, endeavour
regain the influence which his ignorance, his AFRO
gance, and his naturally scurrllous pgopensties had
lost him. 1t believed that he would the ne>
cessity of humbling himself before public opinion, as
the only mode of extricatng himself from,
the degrading station in life, for which both education
and habits had alike qualified him. But those who
entertained such hopes have been disappointed, and
eNrln hn of TIrlU 'IN,a
Dog is turned to his vomit again, and the Sow that
was washed, to her wallowing in the mire."
Nine columns of the Telegraph of the 18th instant,
are devoted to republishinG parts OF articles which
have appeared in this print and the Telegraph, the
subject Of the Presidency, with remarks thereon
by the Telegraph. The object of the Editor appears
to be- prove that he has been hostile to the re
election of General Jackson, and he then attacks the
Secretary of State, the Hon Isaac Hill, the Washing-
ton Globe. the New Hampshire Patriot. and this pa
per. He charges US with having brought forward MIR.
Van Buren, o candidate for the next Presidency,
and, sustain himself has resort, usual false
hood and deception He republshes twice, two pa
ragraphs of an article which published on the 18th
December, 1922 and gravely his readers it is
our entire article, while he ell knew that he had in
tgntionally suppressed the following concluding para
graph
dency) ought not to be discussed at present. Res
pect for General Jackson should, and we hope will,
prevent his friends from pursuing it, the people
uuquestionably anxious to reeect him, and portion
Of them more so. than the friends of Nh Van buren,
He has been re elected printer to Congress- but it
should be known how, and by whose votes. The real
friends of General Jackson, ard of the democratic
party determined early thu session that they would
not reelect him, and accordingly began look about
for successor, when they ere very deliberately in
formed by the 'President-making facon,' that if
Green abandoned they would give their votes to
Gales & Seaton, rather than support any body ese
Fhey ed with, but all in Yaln-Green they
wanted, and Green they would have or give the prn-
ting to the opposition. Under these circumstances,
r,pE,t 1.fc ,rr1va
their support. One hundred and three votes were
necessary for his election, and it with the great
est difficulty after many exertions that they could
persuade their friends to support him. They succee-
ded however, and he received C8 Of the 167 Jackson
votes in the House, although forty at least of those
who voted for him did SO from conviction of its
being the most polite that could, under the
circumstances be pursued. He had said that the sup
port of his dependent family" required his re.eec
ton, and God knows we would be most unwilling TO
gee them suffer for his sins.
His reelection to be Printer, gives him neither
cbaFacter nor influence. The Administration have
long since Withdrawn from hum their countenance and
onJ M de opftl