The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-12-21
THOMAS RITCHII

MONODH ON ORGANISM.
THOMAS RITCHIE.
The "Nashriiie Unionr rs right
The President of the United States
Does not speak his edicts through the
Columns OF this paper
We have never abandoned
A single principle for him.
We have never advocated a measure
Since We came to Washington,
Which We did not approve.
MIR. Polk has never ssked
Such sac rifce at our hands;
And what is more, we would
Never have made il for him.
That the principles Of the present
Administration are the same with those
Which we have uniformly supported
Let his message show.
That the measures which he has attempted
To carry out are correct, is proved
BY the decided voice OF the whole country.
Il Is rarely. as the .Nnshpiits Unionn article
States. that We consult the executive
Not that they are not capable
VI advising ass and not that they have not
Treated MS with uniform courtesy kindnesp.
And col fience. Nor is i. true.
As the correspondents of the 9 Vsp Yors
lisraId' states, that We tease
The President about our editorials
We have never I" eased" him.
The President has never re us ed To communicate
With US III the kindest manner
We would go further thsn this
u We had come to Washington
To burn iacense TO men in power
Facts, II is important or Us 10 know
we never nave found any difficulty
In obtaining such were proper
To be communicated. Take the whole
oregon discussion from October 29th,
When he first article appeared in the "Union''
Down to the LIST OF December
The date oil the message. We found
Ihat It was not improper 10 discuss
The Oregon question, And then,
Not line, i'll the long series of articles
Which came out in this paper
Was ever seen BY the President
Or any member OF the cabinet
Nor the slightest hint opped
BY either OF them,
As to the course WI ich the "Vaiorn
Pursued during the whole discussion
how many oyertures have been made
TO us to settle in Washington
We need not say. From what high quarters
lThen certainly the highest
In the republican party)
We received the most pressing
Aud honorable propositions
10 conduct the republican journal
At Washington in 1877 and
10 continue II under the approaching
Administration Of Gen. jackson,
We need not specifr
The evidence is now in our possession.
how positively We refused
The IN st generous O, ertures
From tbs friends OF the incoming administration
At the last Christmas: and when
The offer was thrice made,
With what reluctance we came here
during the last spring;
How strongly our friends in Virginia
Advised US first to visit it
For the purpose of ascertajnine
From the President himself
What We're the great principles
On which this administrat on W as 10 be conducted
And whether We could come here
consistently with our own PRINCIPLES
And Independence; and with what trankness
The conversation between him and ourselves
Was conducted; and how truly
His acts have since correspondent with
His declarations. it is unnecessary for US
To repeat Mr. Polk Justly appreciates
Our positions and we should not have
The slightest objection that the whole world
Should know the true relations
Subsisting between the President
And the Washington Unica.p
Ill this melancholy and amiable coniessioa-eeual
tru,h-God's own truth. Even the
rrecton made OF the Beraid's alluslon is correct
If correspondent made fatal mistake in saying
1t :" Mr.. Richie leased the President" Mr.
Ichie does no such thng-Mr. Richie is so
oh engaged in talking OF himself-so much EN-
yed in perpetrating amiable egotisms-so much
,uped IN sounding his own praises, and explain
his own generous-hearted contradictions, that
has no time to ''tease the President or to praise
q, even. He is not even the organ of the Elk
hive, end SO he now acknowledges And
best proof OF this fact may be seen in his past
lrse last summer-in his utter ignorance of the
WIS and movements OF the Execuiive.-not ONLY
the Oregon negotiation-but on several other
tiers.
dr Richie Il most amlable gentleman Of the
school-honorable, courteous and kind--but he
90 leaky and too vain for his present position.
cannot be trusted with the secret movements oil
government, either III foreign or domestic poli-
he is like an old empty cider barrel, which has
n N the sun tor weeks-it will not hold water.
I he can be freely trusted with certain things
N the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention
he vas Tor forty years the resIduary pgatee Of the
nous resolutions'of 9S-during his Virginia ca
II but that is the extent-no more In fact Mr..
tchie does not burn incense 10 men in power -
has his hands full in burning incense to himself
IN correcting the errors ci the =" Washington
ibblers" This is his duty, and for this he has
en- elected printer to Congress for two years, a no.
ion worth least, at old prices, about Sl50,OOO
aunum, with profit Of $4,000, to be divided
tween him and Major General Hess. making
,ir net income S25,000 year, equal TO that OF the
esident hlmself-and even that of the proprietor
the New York Herald This Is independence
nciples. and poetry, and. pap combined And thrice
rs this offered Mr.. Richie last Christmas. az the
own was offered to Caius Julius Casar-but thrice
was not refused by the Caesar OF democracy.
Thus, now, the printers TO Congress, by our aid
d with the suppyofreprters educated 10 Dur office
e fairly under way. Hereafter, Mr. Richie will
ok to principles and pap, but will no more be con
Tered The organ of the administration, OF whose
ovements he can know nothing, and never could
cause his head was always too full Of his own
en,ful history. Neither will he NEEDLE with Pre-
dent making for that period of time The real in
lllgence OF the Presidents movements, and OF tn,
aklng OF Presidents, must be looked Tor else
here-perchance in the Nep York Herald Mari
at
sporttng Intelligence.
The race over the Metarie Courte at New f)rIsan,
'snn on the 10Th inst and adjourned ON The m
the path inst IN consequence othe incleeucy Of N
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annexed sre the results Of the races on the ioh =:
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