The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-06-30
CORRESPONDENCE EXTRAORDINARY


We insert the following letter from Mr.. J.
c. Rives 90 the subject Of his eonnexion wiih
the Missouri Sandard, according 10 promise
made by Us I, W DAYS ago. OF course we dad
not expect The disclaimer % be SO yoluminous.
nor are we quite sure that i, will pat the matter
at rest
GLoBE OffIoE, WAsnHeros,
June 2Sth, ioij.
t. hs. Editor Of the .Nadisonian.
SiR lie, Others say OF you what they may or what
they will, truly say that YOU have been KIND 10
me SO Gar as this: Whenever l have wished to say
any thing for the public you have always 'oiun-
tarily Published something in the Siadsonian which
gave to me both apretext and opportunity for doing
So | proceed TO give an instance Of your. magma
nimi,y in this res eet
Early in the present month Democraue paper
was established at ST. Louis by lynde Elliott emit
tied the Missouri Standard" Ever SINCE The hrst
numi er Of that paper was printed, the Missouri
Reporter, - published at ST Louis by one Shsdraeh
Penn, and the {" Madisonan,n published 10 Tins e''y
by YOURSELF have asserted, day IN and day out, tha'
the Standard is branch Of the Globe, established
by the proprietors of the Globe for the purpose oil
disse minatiug the doctrines Of the Globe Clique
That's the burden OF the song Of both the Reporter
and Madisonian shall not take the time aud the
trouble Of making literal quotations from these pa
pers to show exactly what they did say, as nave
more profitable business to attend To- and if had
not l do not think should strain my patent INK
stan )" and consume my ink and paper, in copying
these lyrics.
In last evenings Madisoniau, while harpng on the
same story in long editorial article, you sly you
think the Globe should make disclaimer as to It's
coDnexion with the Standard, and then you go on to
say: 50 We promise 10 copy i, II made, ana leave
our correspondents 10 answer it," This Kind otter oil
yours induced me to compliment you as have at the
beginning of this letter The statement in
regard 10 the Standard being "a branch Of the
Globe" started by Penn and your correspondents,
was getting some currency, and many persons did
not know the from whence it sprung, and now
your kind offer, though it may have been unnten-
tiona, giving me pretext to inform the public on
this point, which intend do by copying this letter
into the Globe after you shall have published it, in
compliance with your promise Now for The connec-
ton between the Globe and tie Missouri Standard
la the Fall of the year 1884, became connected
with the Globe, by purchasing from Francis p Blair,
then its sole editor aDd proprietor one half the es-
Enlistment and he and have been It's sole proprie-
tors ever since. At the time became connected
with tire Globe was single and as poor
man in pecuniary point of view, probably, any
editor about here. There's self abasement for those
who think that, money makes the man, and the
want of it the fellow" As soon as l became
nected with the Globe | began to pick up, which
made me think of other connections. On the 3Oth
day of December, 1895, asked Mary Ann Elliott,
the Oldest sister Of the editor Of the Missouri STAN
dard, if she would like TO be connected with me in
the holy state of matt imony' She answered, with
less than the usual hesitaney suppose from what
heard from Others that she would Her promptness
in answering the question pleased | then asked
her to fix the day on which the ceremonies should be
solemnized and she fixed on the l2th day Of Janu-
ary 1886, which day we were married.
The facts above stated show all the connection"
| can discover between the Globe and the Missouri
Standard and when summed up they amount 10 this,
and between and eight years ago,
John c. RNes, o. the two proprietors OF the
C lobe married Mar, Aune Elliott, the eldest sister
of Lynde Elliott, the proprietor Of The Missouri
Standard. If that can be called a " connection"
then all the newspapers in the United States are con-
necled for intermarr yes connect all white persons
and an not sure but negroes and Indians with
them, in some degree.
will here do you justice, by saying that you can
make more-words, mean-out Of a small matter,
than any writer OF tins or any other age. ] must
confess that | am little verbose-lf were not to
cknowledge IT, this commune atiun would prove it
upon me-but ! can't begin TO write with you in
length and continuation. Five numbers, OF about
column each, is the most ! ever wrote on one sub
ec, and they were under the head Of the Patent
lnkstand,n from which there were many digressions
If | could recollect how many pagers you had pub
shed since you first began to support ~ President
Tyler, could state precisely how many numbers
you have written on one subject, and you have not
lie, yourself down to the loves, depths yeti but you
will, before you done, and your subject with you
You write as Pope, in the Dunciad, describes some
person as writing
4" He gnawed his pen, then dashed Il on the ground
Sinking from thought TO thought, vast profound
Plunged for his sense, but found no bottom there,
Yet wrote and aoundered on in mere despair"
As often as have thought OF you, since e st be-
came acquainted with your desultory manner Of
writing have thought that you and myself as pen
ny-a-liners could bankrupt any paper in the world
have thought further, that If the present Admins
trston would pay penny line to is Official Or
gan, you could make II advertise for another loan of
seven millions before the 4th March, le45 If any
such proposal shall be made you, and you should
want a mariner | will thank Won 10 rive mo n c.u