The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-07-16
THE EDITORS OF THE INTELLIGENCER.

THE EDITORS OF The lNIELLlGENCEn'
These gentlemen are all at once aroused TO
the perpetratng of long editorial OF two col
umns and half, in their paper of Monday 10
rebuke of the President for his letter addressed
to portion of his friends in Philadelphia on
| the 4th July. That letter, as every one who
has read it will perceive, is strictly defensive
against the attacks to which the President Is
continually subject from the presses of the fac
tionists all through the country, and the most
unmeasured terms of abuse increasingly heaped
upon him by ''mousing politicians" both In and
out of Congress. The long commentary OF the
lntelligencer arises from an ascrlption which
the editors are pleased to make of an intention
on the part of the President TO bring Congress
into disrepute with the country. How wonder
fully sensitive the editors have become of the
reputation of Congress, thus to be led TO eabo-
rate an article of such prodigious length! They
are exceedingly chary all at once of the true
dignity of coordinate departments OF the Gov
eminent, and the urbanity which ought to pre-
vail between them. When the whole country
is demanding relief from the passage of various
measures, and when a combined and closely
affiliated press, aided by rabid set Of faction
lists, with Bolts and Stanly in the lead, are
using every possible effort to induce the belief
that the failure to pass Them is owing TO the
President, why it is Numbered forth in number
less columns, by these impartial editors, that
the President Is guilty of great want of courtesy
to Congress, for simply stating his own agency
in the matter and thereby indicating himself
from censure
What does the President say in that letter
which is so offensive to the calm dignity of
Messrs. Gales & Seaton2 Does he do more
than refer to his message to Congress more than
seven months ago, or express any other wish
than TO harmonise with that body Let the
letter speak for itself
But suppose it was otherwise. What if the
President threw back upon Congress the terms
of reproach with which he is daily assailed by
the Stanlys and Bolts and the other "mousing
politicians" would not the country justify
him in it? We believe that it would. We
would desire to know whether Congress does
not owe the observance of as much respect to the
Executiveas the Executive to the Legisa-
ture? Is it not as disreputabe and quite as
designating, for Congress to be attempting, by
mere personal assaults to bring the Executive
into disrepute, as for the Executive to say re-
proachful things of Congress? Tell us the dill
ference We wise and impartial conductors of a
newspaper press.
When has the Intelligencer rebuked the
"Mousing politicians" in Congress, for the false.
hood, vituperation and abuse which have been
heaped upon the President? Was it asleep
when the manifesto Whgs"-some fourteen
in number-assembled and concocted their Ii
belous attacks upon the Chief Magistrate
Has it been deaf so that it could not hear the
bilingsgate abuse perpetually uttered forth
abuse which would disgrace the lowest stand Of
the "canaille of the Fauxburg ST. Antoine in Pa
ris ?" Nay more. Is not the Intelligencer it
self the vehicle of all such abuae? And not on
ly So but has it not, of late, wilfulIy suppressed
Mr. Snyder's reply to Mr. Matho, so as to give
false coloring to the whole of what passed ?
| and although It's attention has been called to the
| matter, has it as yet put forth a correction
| What can honest men think Of such editors
who claim to be lecturers on courtesy, and good
| behaviour?
If the editors desire to preserve our Govern
ment from reproacb, let them take Congress
the Stanlys-lhe Botts-the Arnolds, and the
Mahiots-in hand first. But this they fear TO
do, for they might loose some Of the $4,000
for the public printing, and no doubt these
honest and moral and impartial conductors of
the Intelligencer, think very strangely of our
suggestion, and that "lar, Facilitating, and
miserable qDretch," contemplate traitor"
and such like terms are not at all indecent or
uncoureous, when uttered by the immacu-
lates just named