Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-05-24
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
THE GOVERNMENT PAPER. AGAIN.

The Editor of the government paper (fhs Usioa)
denies having had any sort Of connexion with the
Letter from this city to the Editors of the Rich.
mond Enquirer, Of which we transferred para
graph or two to our paper Of Tuesday. He says
he never saw the piece until he saw il In print :
never requested il to be written, nor directed /, how
TO be written. He further says that the writer Of
the letter is himself mistaken in supposng that he
holds "daiy converse" with the Administration
upon the important and interesting subjects Of
which he treats" Wevery cheerfully give the gsv-
eminent paper the full benefit of this explanation by
its Editor though his own political friends have put
precisely the same construction on the Enquirer
publication we did-the Nes0 Fork Ne,cs, for
example, speaking Of it as follows:
"TnE New ORsAS THE ADMISIsrn ArIoS.--A letter
writer from Washington in the Richmond Enguirc-who Is
evidently confidential relations personally po-
hucaly, with the Union, and in whom mistake
former distinguished correspondent of the Eagurerspeas
in the following terms of that paper and its veteran and
DRAFTED editor The letter makes appeal the Democratic
party in every State and Territory aid it in extending the
circulation Of the government organ, and cheerny
lend ours to bring before the Democracy Of our region
and sphere of influence recommending to their particular
attention
he novel and peculiar relation between it and the Ad-
minsraton defined in this article relation inrorng
direct representatives ~gusaip r intimate and per
sadg than has heretofore existed Jef,ceen our Gorennen,
and the press-certainy invests it with importance, and
must lend to its columns interest superior what
would naturally attach Mr. Rches editorial abors with
out any such extraneous influence"
The purpose for which we introduced to our
readers the letter in queston-that of showing that
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have relations with the Executive even more init
mate than have ever attributed to its, as the
reader will perceive in the least affected by the
fact that the Editor of that paper had agency in
the writing publication of the letter. 1t is very
obvious that the writer of that letter, warm friend
OF the Editor, and, writing from Washington fami-
liar with his habits, &c. must better understand the
relations between the Union" and the Admins
tration than pretend to do. What that let
ter states, therefore, was and continues be- very
sufficient reply to the unjust censure bestowed by
the Georgia paper upon the National Intelgencer
for representing "the Union to be the organ of the
Administration.
Such, says the Union referring to our Tues
days arhcle,) after making the denias above reci-
ted, IS the right hand of fellowship which the
National Intelligencer is pleased to award to the
stranger, who almost for the first time enters the
gates of the CITY, &c. We cannot allow this
appeal TO the sympathy of the Public to pass with
out, in the first place, dscaiming the slightest in
tentlon or inclination wound the feelings, or even
ruffie the complacency, of the Editor Of the Union,
towards whom personally, on the contrary, we had
never entertained any sentiments other than those of
L ~. IL
suggesting that his complaint would have fallen from
his pen with better grace had he entered the gates
OF our city inofiensively, as stranger should do
instead of signaiizng himself, immedIateIy
king the chair Government Editor by wholly
unprovoked aggression upon the National Intelli-
gencer, establishment as old as the city itself :;
aggression followed up by allowing some malignant
enemy 10 assail the same establishment with
foul charge, which, when pointed out to him as a
false and base libel, he has not had :" fellowship
enough even to disavow.
The Editor of the Union" must know, from
some thirty-nay, almost forty-years observation,
that averse to editorial chickering's, as I'm worthy of
the high and true aims Of public press, we assail
no one wantonly, and even seldom stoop to defend
ourselves against unjust imputatons. We have
preferred for ourselves TO let the voceless testimony
Of lives all such attacks and often pass
by legitimate subjects for animadverson in the Jour
mails of political adversaries las indeed has been
the in regard to the Union ITSELF rather than
incur or kindle the angry feelings Of controversy.
IT. therefore, the Editor of the Union" find in his
new position no adversaries more inclined than we
TO goad him unnecessarily, his eguanimity will not
be rs often ruied as, from the importance and re-
sponsibity of that position and its relations, he
might reasonably anticipate.