Mobile register and journal., 1845-10-09

If willing aedampllcss AM, p1ftiCpaors 10 The dirty
hnsiness. 1t becomes itself The main cuuse of their
rapid and certain dissemination; and snatchng lrum
Mackenzie the distinction Of the first publication
like me thief Stealing from ahulher his ha.wronehi
mtany-bearpi of in bushis triumph the vile hun
ors OF the whole transaction. IL has won them wor-
hy, let il wear them forever.
I'll Is sound axiom, sayl the Courier and En-
qurer, that the receiver Of stolen goods is no better
than The thief and 10 publish any portion of these
letters would, in our opinion, put us par with
the individual who has thrown them before the pub
lie. Any editor who would publish them. would, il
is to be presumed, have dore all thai Mackenzie has
done. Certainly no person pretending To entertain
the feelings of gentleman could possibly loan his
columns TO such an iniqu tous proceeding. That
sDlne papers have and will publish them. no one can
doubt who IL familiar with the character of port ion
| of the press; but most assuredy no respectable
press will illus proclaim il, editor any thing but
gentleman IN Y. Courier, Owing
THE STOLEN LBTTEIs.-The Tribune Mt last
Tusiles itsel in the publication of private letters
surrepttiously procured md published. After sio-
lenly denounclng the thing in others, time and
again, il is forced like convicted rogde, 10 defend
an act which il first sought palliale. As the Even.
ing Gazette has said
.'lf a mans own sense of what is decent and pro.
per, does not keep him Straight in IA matter OF this
kind, he in moi fit to argu. with"
| We have therefore no TO say onths head /.
except to advise our freIds who may have occasion
TO go near the Tribune 10 leave their private notes
a. home and keep SHARP lookout upon their peck
ets.
| The Express and the Tribune are SO uneasy under
the odium which they have brought upon themselves,
in the estimation OF all honorable man, by making
themselves parles the publication oil private and
confidential letters, fra unently obtained. that they
| attempt to justify themselves by the miserable bea
that others have done lle same thing before them.
The logic here is no better than that of highway
man who should excuse his oulrages on the ground
that he the first in that line OF BUSINESS
perhaps. allaee the reasen that his accuser himself
| might be strongly suspected Of petty larceny.
The question is not, what people have done in times
past-not whether the Evening Post, at some time
or other may have fallen into an error during a
season oil strong political excitement, but whether
gross and dIsgraceul outage upon the sanciiies OF
private life, has not been committed, and whether
the Tribune and the Express have not abetted that
outrage? IN. Y. Eve Pest.
THE LETTERs.-The Evening Gazette, whls
authority, speaks thus OF die Mack fraud:
ave were not prepared to believe that the pub
LEGATION of genlemA's private correspondence
lelnnously obtained -would find any apologisi even
| from the most violent and prejudced political parii-
| zans. Such, howevT, we regret to say Is the case,
aad this infamous acl is excused If not Justified on
the ground that like bulrages have been perpetrated
herei0i0rei
| II IL mans own sense of what is decent and prop
er does not keep hin straight matter OF this
| kind, he is not fiji 10 que with.
We close this controversy says the News by quo
ting what tho National Intelligencer twhg) says OF
this matter:-
"They are Ieitersevidently written in all The free
dom of intimacy, ard with the most entire confidence
IN the sanctiy Of private correspondence the VIOLA
ton of which no circumstances of political annosi-
ty or personal difference can justify. 1t is hardly
possible to refrain from reading snch matter when
placed in print bebre one, but cannot reconcile il
to the rule oil con,iot by which we have ever been
! governed, to be instrumental in extending the pub
| Lefty already gives to these priva'e letters. we
therefore refrain, however strongly tempted, from
extracting FROM this book any part Of s contents.
! So the Tribune stands alone in It's iniamy-ior the
Express can aidy be enuine aied among. morally
responsible journals. The Courier and Enquirer
the Commercial, The Newark Daily Advertiser, the
Evening Gazette, the National Inielligencer, wash
their hands of the dirty business, leaving the Tr''
bune like Counsellor Phillips Napoleon,
Grand, gloomy and peculiar"