The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-27

means. Let me ask the favor of you to answer
this letter you can conveniently, l
would have you consider it confidential, unless
YOU should choose to confer with Mr. Kendall
upon the policy of the views l entertain.
would not have any other person kno.y have
thought of changing my position.
I ana, sir, with great respect,
Your obed't. serv't.
F. P. BLAIR
This letter came under cover from MIR. Ken
dali, who wrste to me as follows:
[Mr. Kendall to d. Greenl
GEORGETOWN, It'll November, 1880.
| DEAR SIR,-The enclosed letter was received
| by me some days ago, with Instructions to de-
liver 1t or not as | might think proper. After
bestowing upon the subject my best reflec tions,
| have determined to deliver it, with full dis
| closure of my opinions.
Had been rejected by the Senate, should at
once have started a newspaper in Washington.
| 1t appeared to be the readiest way by which |
could provide the means Of comfort for desti-
tute family, and vindicate the principles ofequal
rights, violated in the prescription of printers
as class. Besides, | had some ambition to
promote at this point the great cause OF reform.
This step would have been taken without any
feeling of hostility to you, or any intention to
compete with you for the printing of Congress.
| On the contrary, it would have been my desire,
and | should have made every proper effort to
| continue to you that printing, and should have
| been content with such portion of the PRINT
ING for the PUBLIC OFFICES as the incum-
bents might think proper to give me. In short,
| should have endcavored to sustain paper there
wholly unconnected with Congress, and entirely
devoted to the principles which brought Gen.
jackson into power.
firmly believed that such paper here, in
FRIENDLY hands, instead of injuring you,
would promote your ultimate interest. From
| what 1 saw and heard, | anticipated that you
Ill to ntpF
| The adams and Clay men toW Ee1er forgive
you .Many hare acted pith as in the late con-
| lest from other NOTICES than deu0tion to our
principles. Most OF these only wanted an apo
| logy to act against you. Added to these, there
| were many real friends of our who has,
or thought they had, grounds for personal oppo-
sition Nor could it be disguised, that some
looked with JEALOUSY to the future, appre-
hending that your course, IL future election,
was already decided, and that your paper was
managed with a view to that event. Nor were
i | ENVY at your success, and an ANALOGOUS
: desire to grasp the gain which yol sup
posed to be reaping, without their effect upon
: ssme of your contemporaries of the press. | be-
leved it difficult, if not impossible, fo- you sit
uated you are, to conquer all these difficult
ties, and secure reelection printer to Con-
gross.
i had no doubt that great portion of the hos
tility to you would be disarmed by The establish
, ment of another paper here, with the counte-
nance and partial snpp Jrt of the administration.
Personal opposition to yO'i would be less active
an bitter, JEALOUSY would be allayed, EN-
Wy would lose tie food on which it fed and
, AYARICE would no longer have a sufficient in
duccment to enter into competition with you
4 and all attacks your interests would have
= been repealed by the united influence of the
whole administration.
These were my views of facts and consequent
: ces, which, had 1 been rejected, | should have
E. Eli
the hope that we might have united in adyocat-
ing the same principles without any collision of
:, interests on feelings. My confirmation put an
end to the scheme, and rendered it unnecessary
to say any thing about it.
My view Of your situation has not at all chang
ed. On the contrary, variety of circumstances
have occurred to increase your difficulties and
dangers, and am confident it will require all
the cxertions of the Presidents friends to secure
to You the printing of Congress for the next two
: years. | know not what may be Mr.. Blair's
views in relation to that subjects but last spring.
, when | expected to be rejected, communicated
mine to him, and from the tenor of the enclosed
letter, presume his views now are borrowed
from mine as then expressed, which have been
|, recalled to his mind by the threats he has seen
in some of the newspapers. kIbo that he has
no other than friendly feelings towards you, and
that he will not willingly take any step which
can rebound to your injury.
There is, j think, general impression abroad
that there ought to be two presses here support
ing the administration. There are, believe, in
this District, six hostile papers, two of which
are pouring forth daily torrents of nnisreprcsen-
tation. Multitudes Of our friends think they
ought to be met with more than one counter
acting establishment. Many are meditating
upon the means of establishing themselves here,
some of whom are every way your ENEMIES.
Should MI. Blair come, you win havea FRIEND,
personal and POLITICAL, who instead Of
occupying you in individual and intestine
BROfLS, viii UNITE in the SUPPORT of
the great principles which Gen. jackson is at
tempting to introduce into our government or
rather to revive in its administration. For one
thing can vouch. He will come wholly nm
pledged to any man or men. He win support
Gen. Jackson as the means of giving effect to
great principles; but beyond him, he has neither
pledges nor purposes, so far as regards men,
This know from confidential intercourse with
him relative to the management OF the Argus.
On the whole, believe paper here edited
by Mr.. Blair, would do much general good, and
no evil / confident that upon full survey
of all the circumstances, you will come to the
same conclusion. ! should hail II as promising
= much for the republican cause. If you and he
J could each manage paper here in friendly re-
iations, and in CONCERT as to the great OBJ
jects Of our party. In the desire to witness such