The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-07-03

The WAsHINaroN GLoBE. When Napoleon was
traversug the snowy regions ofRussia, surrounded
by a furious and victorious enemy, and retreatIng
with famine in his camp, and defeat marking eve
ry tootstep, the French people were made 10 be-
lieve all this time that victory and conquest attend
ed all mis- movements; and il was not till the Rus
slams were nearly within the envrons of the Capitol
Of France that they appraised of their error
This belief was created and sustained by the official
papers of the Emperor, in pay of the Government,
giving publicity the fasehoods systematically and
carefully arranged under the eye of Napoleon in
camp. BY such means Napoleon sought 10 hide
from the people of France the trne state of his
my and the disgrace attending his ambitious de-
signs--hoping, doubtless, upon his return to Paris,
to retrieve his fortune.
There is in the United States class of public
journals, which live by and under the patronage of
the Administration, that answer the same design
70 Government, that the journals under Napo
leon did his sinister purposes. Among these jour
mails the Washington Globe stands conspicuous
f. p, Blair, the editor, was years ago large
debtor to the late United States Bank, which debt,
when called upon to pay, he escaped by taking ad
vantage Of the law in the District of Columbia,
which pei mts rogues and rascas to live upon the
money of others. The Globe has received and is
receiving from the Government about one hundred
thousand dollars per annurh. And as reward for
this patronage, its columns sureited with false
hoods and base calnmnies upon all such individu-
ais as oppose the schemes of the Administrations
and these caIumnes and falsehoods copied all
over the country by the Tory papers in the service
of Mr. Van Buren, BY these means the people are
cajoled and deceived-the public mind is misled,
and the office holders enabled to sustain to
some extent, their power, and pocket the spoils.-
The Globe is scattered gratuitously, when people
will not pay for it, into every section of the
try, and distributed by retaiaers of the Adminisra-
ton. So corrupt has it become, that it dores not
circulate all Of its misrepresentation of, and libels
upon its political opponents, in the place where it
is printed, and it is sad that private editions
printed at Washington and sent abroad to distant
parts of the country, beyond the reach of the
ed. The affairs of Government misrepresented,
the wickedness of our rulers hidden from the peo-
pie, and their corruptions pass unexposed. Thus
it has been for eight years past, that the people
have been deceived-the Government became
bankrupt and unprincipled men have retained their
ill-gotten power and riotted upon the Treasury of
the people.
There are however, few of the party
Senators and Represen tatives-who do not counte
nance such corrupt practices. The Globe receives
almost daily public from some of them in
their places in Congress- 1t is, nevertheless, sane
toned by the main portion of the party and by the
President, and its falsehoods are circulated through
the columns of its thousand echoes in the county
The contents of the Tory papers around us consist
principally of the vile ISLANDERS OF the Globe; but in
most cases they are of so gross character that the
more intelligent put little confidence in them. 1t
is the most corrupt, deceptive and vile print of the
party and those who copy from it know it to be
such