The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-06
"YOU MAY KNOW THE WOUNDED
PIGEON BY HIS FLUTTERING.n

and suicidal article of the 'Naiional lntelgencer'
of this morning; but the article of jackson"
has stepped in, to give it the finishing stroke.
We would have cautioned the lntelgencer"
about losing its temper, and reminded it of the
anecdote Of the countryman, who, hearing a
controversy in strange language between two
scholars, was able to ascertain which Of them
was defeated, by his losing his temper. We
should, however, have recollected the advice of
a friend, given this morning, on this very efiusion
ofthe National lntelgencer: "Do, for mercy sake,
without pursuing him with calling fire. As |
understand the article in this mornings Intelli-
gencer, it contains an admission that the Pres
ident had done only what Mr.. Madison and his
predecessors have done. Is not this all that you could
require TO establish in reutaon of his original charge,
that the conduct of President Polk scas sohou any
precedent All that you have to do is, to ex-
hibit the bare charge that the President had
acted without precedent and then follow il up
with his own admission in this days In
teligencer, that Mr. Polk has done precisely
as Mr.. Madison had done, without any further com
ment." Such, at least is the substance of the re-
marks that were made to us this morning. We
would have been very we'll content to follow This
Suggestion but jackson, whose piece has been re-
published and noted by the National Inteligencer,
has sent us the following reply and we deem il our
duty to publish it. File has said enough to expose
the weakness of the Intelligencer. He exhausts
the argument, and leaves us very little more to
say; and that little is, partly to assure the edi-
tors of the National lntelgencer that they
have entirely mistaken their man that jack
son" is not one of the " distinguished MEM
bers of the democratic party who have accepted
Office" that we found him here, and of that corps
Of able and distinguished talents, of whom WASH
ington may boast on her own account; and that no
man has "acceped office on the condition Of contrib
uting his labors to the executive organ" With
what grace the National lntelgencer can sneer at
"the laundering geniuses" who support the admin
stration, we are somewhat puzzled to discover, af-
ter the gross blunders which it has perpetraed it.
self after charging the President with violating the
constitution, and acting against the precedents of
Mr. Madison, when it now turns out that Mr.. Polk
has done nothing but what Mr.. Madison has done
that is, scaling upon the governors Of Louisiana &c
to hold their militia in readiness, and to furnish certain
quotas as they received notice that the
forces were wanted in the feld'-whch notice
is 10 be given to them, &C., officially, Through
the officer in command" General Taylor.) We
understand that this is the very course which
the President has just pursued. and that whilst
the Intelligencer has charged him with acting with
out precedent, he has substantially pursued the
precedent set him by other Presidents. We say
nothing Of the other blunders into which the blum
dering genius" Of the Intelligencer has fallen. We
say nothing of his "calumnies of hirelings who have
accepted office the condition Of contributing" their
1labors to the executive organ' and still less upon
the character which its editor claims for HIMSELF and
which he would deny to others, when he says 'much
greater need than zoe have they make themselves
characters to deserve fair and broad public conf
dence."
For the Union
THE ANGLo-MExicAN INTELLIGENcER
am glad to perceive the sensitiveness of the Ma
tiona Integencer at being called by the name which
its conduct has justified. 1t proves that there is
sound state of feeling questions between our own
and foreign governments in the wing party general
ly which makes the editors begin to feel the
quences of their ant-American course. That feel
ing evnces itself in long articles TO prove their con-
in comparing their own course with that
of certain democratic editors, in harsh language; in
quoting one or two fellow-aborers prove that its
Anglo Mechanism is nothing but independence; and
in backing out, under flourish, from the ground
they had assumed relative to calling out the militia.
The general consistency of the Intelligencer for
some years back, needs no illustration. recollect
but one deviation, and that was when it APP
proved the course Of the administration in sending
troops to Texas. A little patriotism then burst out
in their dark columns, like sunbeam through
cloud but they have since atoned for that slip of the
pen, by heaping up column upon column Of Anglo
Mexican carpings, and arguments, to put the ad-
ministration in the wrong in that very act. No,
no; they have occasion to vindicate their consis
tency;--it is notorious; it is not questioned
Nor was it necessary TO prove the difference be-
tween themselves and certain democratic editors
who were not originally in favor of the annexation
OF Texas. Those editors disapproved Of annexa-
ton the terms proposed, and thus far agreed with
the lntelligencer. The question was then domts-
tic one, and the parties to it were our own people
only. But the majority decided in favor Of annex
alton, and pledged to it the faith of our country.
II then became question between the United
States and Mexico; and then the democratic editors
alluded to took sides with their own country, and
the editors of the Intelligencer with Mexico In
this, both were consistent--thc democratic editors
on all foreign questions being consistently with
their country and the editors Of the National Intel
ligencer against it.
The article in this mornings Intelligencer re-
quires little comment Il begins with ashow of ar
gument 10 maintain its former position, and con-
cludes by abandoning it altogether. The following
are its last words, viz:
Accordingly what the distinguished members Of
the democratic party who have taken ONCE to soniue us
hunted upf Why documents that President Mad
had called upon the governors Of Tennessee Mssssp
p and Louisiana hold their militia In readiness and to
furnish certain quotas they received notice that
the forces wanted in the fed-which notice
cordngy given them afterwards through the officer in COM
mand.
nd IN hinder President Polk from taking