Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-30
CENSORSHIP or THE pREsS.-A ver,

CENSORSHIP or THE PRESS.-A very
curious and somewhat important instance Of
suppression Of the ruth has recently occurred
IN the Washington Union, the special Execu-
tive organ. Ihatpaper OIL Friday contained
the following notice of the meeting, of the
Democratic Association of that city, ON
Thursday evening, to take measures to pay
respect TO thelpemory ofGen. Jackson
The association met pursuant to adjourn
ment. John ?. Rires, Esq, president elect,
presented himself, and wasregularly installed.
Being conducted " the chair, he rose and de-
livered an address.
"Thc President having to leave the Chair
to make rPort, requested Robert Coltman,
Esq, vice Tesident. to take the chair.
ION motiSn by MIR. Ward, the secretary was
requested ID solicit the remarks of the presi.
dent for publication"
Then follows the Tribute of Respect"
which was pad by the meeting to Gen. JACK
SONS memoIy,-but nothing whatever of the
address OF Mt. RrvEs appears. We are inform
ed, however on very liable authority, that u
copy oil his address was furnished for publica-
ton; and th3t it was in type and about to be
put to press In the Union, when il was acct
dentally discovered by the business partner of
that paper, Who stopped the press and posted
to the edition That gentleman, in turn, post
ed oil to the President, who summoned to
council his Official advisers. The speech was
laid before then, and the result of their DELHI.
erations may be inferred from the fact, that the
speech Oh Mr.; kives, though in type at the
Union office, has never appeared i'm that or In
any other paper. 1t was decided by the Exccu.
tive authority that certain facts should not be
laid before thepublic, and forthwith the press
Is muzzledi The censorship of the press i'm
Austria, i'll Italy, in Cuba and other countries
ruled by the will of individuals, has long been
a theme OF democratic reproach and d, n incia-
tion: but It never surpassed this instance or
the part OF our Democratic" rulers.
The remarks thus suppressed by an Execu
tive mandate, were OF general interest aut
Will yet, we are persuaded, see the light. The,
related, we understand, to the course pursued
by President Polk, both before and since hi,
election, towards the Globe newspaper ant
that portion Of the Loco Focos whose feeling.
and policy 1t represented. We have been in
formed that Mr.. Rives took occasion to speak
very freely and very plainly, of this matter ant
read letters from Gen. JACKSON expressing hi.
ccnsure OF MIR. Polk for the course he pursu
ed. He declared, as matter of fact, restins
ON the best authority, that certain section O
the Loco Foco party exacted from Mr.. Polk
the pledge that he should discard the Globe be
lore they would support his administration
andh further expressed his belief that tn,
same men as early as August 1914, demanded
The same pledge as the only terms on which
they would 60 FOR his election.
Mr. RIvEs, moreover, if our information i.
not incorrect, read letter from Gen. JACKSON
written in April last, in which he declared
that MIR. Polk had shown less common sense
IN discartting the Globe than i'm any other ac
OF his life, that it was a useless aud foolisl
measure, that Mr.. Folks object in urging r
appeared to be to divide and distract the demo.
cratic party, and that he must have been incit
ed to 1t by the Calhoun or Tyler cliques, before
he arrived at Washington.
Tins is the substance of the remarks which
the PRESIDENT and his Cabinet have resolved to
suppress because they are unpalatahk to the
Executive, therefore the Executive forbida
their pnblication.--N y. Com. Enq.