The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-14
THE INTELLIGENCER.

On Tuesday last the National Inlelligencer
contained an article headed " The President and
the Country" in which it censured the Execu-
tive in no measured terms for his letter of July
Cd to the Philadelphia Committee. Its intro
duction of the letter of the President is but
cover to a most violent and unjust attack upon
the Chief Magistrate /; and an excuse for justi-
fying the "majority of Congress" inIthe grand
system of heading-so often tried and as often
foiled
We propose to examine this windy article in
its own synopsis, and to show precisely where
Congress is, where the President is, and where
the Intelhgencer strikes for its enormous pay.
AS this will occupy much space, we shall con-
tinue the subject in series OF short articles, so
the "digni6ed" editors Of the Congressional
paper may reserve and mark whatever they may
wish to comment upon in the meantime.
In speaking of former letter OF the Presl-
dent, the Integencer says:
No exception being made in terms, or left for re-
ference the letter to which refer held up TO the
ton the whole Wing party in Congress as being re-
CARELESS of the public interest and actuated only oy
selfish and degrading motives. A mind thus fettered
and cramped by prejudice, we then remarked, could
hardly be in a condition to form sound judgment
upon any which it might become the duty OF
Congress to present to the President
The extract comes with very i'll grace from
one whose "mnd is cramped and fettered" by
the tens of thousands coming into the pockets
of the editors from the House printing; but 1t
requires soul of honor and heart OF truth to
quarrel with ones bread and butter. The In
teiqencer can not but cringe and bend to all that
the House does, for it is supported by the Inebrl-
ates alteration of the old motto, and must still
cry out "unied we standardized fall"
Where was that high sense OF honor which
should mark public journalist, when 1t suffer
ed its Congressional r-ports OF the House pro-
ceedings of Friday last to be so mutiated and
disigured as to save Mr.. Mathiot from the stig-
ma he himself provoked? That gentleman sta
ted his case, in which he asserted that the Presl-
dent "lied," and this the Intelligencer gives
but, instead of giving the damnlng answers OF
Mr.. SNYDER aud Mr.. Weller, the report of the
Intelligencer merely says: "Much confusion
prevailed" and then goes on with another part
of the proceedings, emitting entirely the with
ering clause that compelled Mr.. Mathiot to ''hide
his diminished head" The paid printers of the
House to thus garble and suppress correct state
men,s of the debates and actually to pervert the
true language of speakers, deceives the People
and the country +; and, in more than one leglSla-
i've BODY, for such wilful misrepresentation of
facts, the reporter would be called to the bar OF
the House and made to answer for It's contemp-
tible omission.
Daily and almost hourly does the maj ority of
the House throw printing into the hands OF the
Intelligencer, and the People suppose that this
money is to pay for the expense of furnishing
correct reports Of the debates. Instead OF this
being the fact, the Lnlelligencer garbles every
thing that is said by the Democracy or the
friends of Mr. Tyler, and gives two hourishes
of its noisy trumpet for every word uttered by
the majority against the President. In the first
place. it will deny correct assertions, and when
pnshed to the wall on that tack, wines out
some palry excuse, such as "much confusion
prevailed" or ''the Reporter was unable to hear
the remarks of Mr.. -"
If an obnoxious majority measure fails, the
Intelligencer denies that Congress ever intend
ed TO pass such measure and when forced to
admit This, laws it upon ga few ungovernable
spirits, though the thing was never seriously
attempted"
And for all this whining aud fawning and be-
scattering with fulsome praise, the majority
pays the lntelligencer thousands OF the money
of the poor and suffering People, under the
head of ''printng" This printing is as use
less one half of il, as is the vaporing support OF
the Intelligencer itself; but still it all helps to
keep the House paper on its legs and at It's con-
tinued and 'dignfed" abuse of the President
TARIFF.