Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-02-23

Very SMALL BUSINESS FOR GREAT MEN,
Mr.. Secretary FoRsYTH has directed the Ed
itors Of the National Inteligencer to discon
tinue their papers to the u. 8. Legations il
foreign countries at the expense Of the Go
verRment. The Tntclligencsr has been sen
to these Legations for about 40 years at the
Governments expense. This is truly smal
business-pititul in the extreme. The edi
tors Of the Intelligencer with their accustom
ed high mindedness, adopted an honorable
course in relation 10 it, as will be seen by
the following.
From the National Intelli gencer.
MR.. FORSYTH AGAINST THE PRESS.
The publishers of this paper had the honor
yesterday to receive from the Department OF
State the following letter:
DEPARrMENT OF STATE,
WAsHINGroS, February 9, 1887.
Messrs. GALES g. SEAToN,
Publishers of the National lntelligencer:
| GENTLEMEN: The subscription, on the part
Of this Department, for sixteen copies Of your
semi eskly, and one copy Of your daily pa
per, for the legations abroad, will cease OH
the expiration of the period for which that
subscription has been paid.
am, gentlemen,
Your obedlent servant,
EDW'D. STUBBS, Agent.
To this letter we have done ourselves the
pleasure to return the following reply:
lOrrIcE OF THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
February 10, 1887.
Sir: We have received your letter direct
ing discontinuance Of certain papers order
ed from this office by the Departments of
State, after the time to which they are paid
Tor. In conformity to our usage in such ca
ses, not to send the National lnte lligencer to
any subscriber one moment longer than he
desires to continue it, we have directed the
papers in question to be discontinued from
this day, that is to say, sixteen copies of the
National Intelligeneer and one copy of the
Daily National lntelligencer.
| As the subscription to those papers is paid
for up to the Goth day Of August next, the to-
tai amount so overpaid being $57 AZ, we
have, also in accordance with what we have
heretofore done in such cases, refunded the
amount paid in advance, by this day placing
to your credit in the Bank Of tho Metropolis
the above sum Of $57 az.
We are, very respectfully,
Your obcdent servants,
GALES s. SEATON.
EDWARD STUBBs, Esq. Agent,
Department Of State.
! We may, we presume, without any violence
of construction, place this measure on the
part of the honorable Secretary of state to
political account. We regret TO learn that
SO veteran u politician has not learned to
look upon occasional differences of opinion
on public questions for we have not always
differed) with more philosophy; and that he
should have been impeled by his feelings
thus suddenly to cut off from the Legations
Of his government in foreign countries, u
source Of information with which they have
been supplied from the department OF state
under every change Of administration, and
every phase of party, now for near forty
years. But though it is the misfortune OF the
Intclligencer to have thus suffered proscrip-
ton at the hands of the honorable Secretary,
we know that our ministers abroad continue
to place on it u juster value; and determined d
that the public interest shall not, as far as we
can prevent it, suffer by keeping them in ig-
norance Except as officially advsed) of what
is going on at home or, what is as bad,
giving them one side views Of public affairs,
we shall regularly forward files of the Ma
tional Inteligencer from this office, begin
ming this day,to each Of our ministers, charges
daffairs, and consuls. general abroad. for
which they will individually pay the publish
ers if they think proper, but which if they do
not, they are still welcome to. lftheir Gov
ernment acts upon such contracted or penu-
rious principles as to refuse them lght,it shall
not be our fault if they are kept in benight-
cd ignorance Of the public affairs Of their own
country.