The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-07-14
THE lNTELLIGENCER.

On Tuesday last the National Inlelligencer
contained an article headed - The President and
the Country" in which it censured the Execu-
rive in no measured terms for his letter of July
I'd to the Philadelphia Committee Its intro
duction of the letter of the President is but a
cover to 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
foed.
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 IntelIigencer strikes for its enormous pay.
As this will occupy much space, we shall con-
tnue the subject in a 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 Iutelligencer says:
No exception being made in terms, or left for re-
ference the letter which refer held up to the ma
tion the whole Wing party in Congress being re-
CARELESS of the public interest and actuated only oy
selfish and degrading motives. mind thus ettered
and cramped by prejudice we then remarked, could
hardly be in condition to form sound Judgment
upon my measures which it might become the duly OF
Congress to present to the President
The extract comes with very i'll grace from
one whose mind is cramped and feltered' by
the tens of thousands coming into the pockets
of the editors from the House printing; but II
requires soul of honor and heart of truth TO
quarrel with ones bread and butter. The In
teireucer can not but cringe and bend to all that
the House does, for it is supported by the 'nebrl-
ate's alteration of the old motto, and must still
crv out united we standardized 4 fall"
Where was that high sense OF honor which
should mark public journalist when II suffer-
ed It's Congressional ports OF the House pro-
ceedings of Friday last to be so mutllated and
disfgured as to save Mr.. Matniot from the stlg-
ma he himself provoked2 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 damning answers OF
Mr. Snyder aud Mr. Weller, the report of the
Integencer merely says: Much confusion
prevailed" and then goes on with another part
of the proceedings emitting entirely the with
erng clause that compelled Mr.. Mathlot TO "hlde
his diminished head" The paid printers of the
House to thus garble and suppress correct state
ments of the debates and actually to pervert the
true language Of speakers, deceives the People
and the country aud, in more than one legisla-
i've body, for such wful misrepresentation of
facts, the reporter would be called to the bar of
the House and made to answer for its contemp-
tible omission.
Daily and almost hourly does the aority of
the House throw printing into the hands of the
Integencer, 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 .Inlelligencer garbles every
thing that is said by the Democracy or the
friends of Mr.. Tyler, and gives two hourshes
of It's noisy trumpet for every word uttered by
the majority against The President. In the first
place, it will deny correct assertions, and when
pushed to the wall on that tack, whnes out
some pal,ry excuse, such as ''much confusion
prevailed" or ''the Reporter was unable to hear
the remarks of Mr. --."
If an obnoxious majority measure fails, the
JntelIiqencer denies that Congress ever intend
ed to pass such measure; and when forced to
admit This, lays it upon "a few ungovernable
spirits, though the thing was never seriously
attempted"
And for all this whining and fawning and be-
SCATTERING with fulsome praise, the majority
pavs the lntelligencer thousands OF the money
of the poor and suffering People, under the
head of .'prnting.n This printing is as use
less, one half of it, as is the vaporing support OF
the Inelligencer itself; but still it all helps to
keep the House paper on its legs and at its con-
tnued and ''digni6ed" abuse of the President