The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-13
From the New York Evening Post.
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY.

This is the name of curious article that has oc-
cuped pretty large space in the pages OF the last
two numbers Of the Wing Review. 1t purports to
be an exposure Of the frauds resorted to during
elections in this city. Being written with great
imitation and grandiloquence Of style, and the com.
pletest recklessness of TRUTH with large infusion
anti-democratic malignity it has excited considera
BILE sensation among the wing politicians One cred
ulous old whig friend Of ours, whose attention had
been called to it, actually believed all the writer said
was gospel truth, and he is confidently predicting
the complete overthrow Of the democrats. But i
this gentleman had known that the writer of the ar.
tcle was once the imaginative but malicious Mum
chausen who wrote letters from Washington for the
New York American; that he is the same person
who made great fool of himself in attempting tc
that he is openly charged, Us we shall show, by
some of his own political cronies with partial de.
raDgement, even he would have hestated before he
gave credence to these revelations.
But we are going on with comments Of our own
when our sole object was to give only few 'ele.
nation in which this pretended exposure of demo
cratic frauds is held by the wings themselves.
The Courier & Enquirer, of this morning, opens
a review of it thus:
"The editor announces in conspicuous type that the
copyright Of the article entitled Mystery Of inquiry ha,
been secured by the author according to law full edi
in press and win be issued in two three daysn mad
agned himself the liver Of goose in process ofbeng en-
arged to make Pate oie Most assuredly the con
cet original; and think there would have teeI
quite much sanity evnced in his securing the copyright
IT, there in taking copyright for the article in
question No copyright necessary in either fol
there Is little prospect of any person copying the
fifty pages origmaroe from the Wing Journal there il
Of borrowing the idea Of his being gooses liver
in process of enlargement by heat We cheerully admit
however the right of the author of The Mystery of ni
putty to copyright both instead Of Of the usual
grounds for projections perfectly original In its charac
ter, and from the commencement to the end, felton,
This is pretty strong language; but not half as
strong as another paragraph which we find a few
lines down the column:
"In this very long and circumstanal pretended history Of
the writer does not attempt to give the slightest evidence in
sur theory; and then he proceeds manufactures facts
in the crcumstanta manner; allegation after alega
ton is made with much apparent confidence in their
truth the facts had been ELECTED in court of justice
and yet particle Of evidence in support Of solitary
charge allegation, placed before the reader Nobody
rise from the persal of this paper without conviction
that II is from beginning to end, the work Of unsettled
and wandering inagination-of brain laborng under
most unhappy haucnation which calls for the
reference Of kind friends prevent disastrous
quences That the mind Of the writer not tranquil
should be- is apparent from the gross contradictions
tanned in the article ITSELF md that the responsible editor
Of the magazine has brains to become added. mani
fest from the admission ofsuch ravng and ridiculous a
Gle into Its pages"