The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-17
THE WING JOURNALS IN DIFFICULTY

THE WING JOURNALS IN DIFFICULTY.
IL is no holiday business to be wing editor just
now We have never before seen the time when the
journals Of hat was great and powerful party,
have been reduced to such straits at present. to
discover or invent, or imagine some material for
attack upon the administration They begin to feel
that the less they say against the new tariff the bet
ter. Their fsbriestions about the alleged over-drsfs
and other fabulous msleasanees Of the Treasury De-
partment have been thoroughly exposed, as to be-
come laughing stocks in the view Of sensible men,
and the whole vocabulary of such Islander seems
now to be pretty much exhausted. ISLANDERS about
the treasury, like the damns" of poor Acres in the
play, shave had their day" The country prospers,
and things go on smoothly under the democratic
ascendaney, and the wings cannot deny IT, The
lntelligenesr Of this morning is reduced TO such a
desperate lack Of plausible accusation, to quote
whole article Of ours, with careful editorial COM
ment, in order To prove that the administration is
aeryously urging on General Taylor, solely for the
purpose Of preventing General Scott, predictions about
The advance Of our armies, from being rsSiiEsdH And
when the energy of the operations Of the camp, as
subsequently displayed by the last arrivals, would
have shown the yigor Of Gen. Taylor's movements.
We want words To express our sense Of the utter
folly Of such bsbble. We can only do it by COM
parison. II is quite silly enough for "sadsr'' IN the
Mp York Erpresl
The lntelgencer has recently seized upon another
notable idea which may be properly noticed in this
connection, Desperate about the success which at
tended the Executive policy in relation to Oregon, so
far as that policy permitted to have its opera
tion the lntelligenoer would now make the country
believe that the "Notiee" ITSELF as recommended by
the President, very slight matter; but that the
"form" given to the notice by the Senate was the
real element Of power in the case and brought about
all the good that has been accomplished. This is
about much to say that the vgor Of the soldier
in the field depends upon his uniform, or that the
sail lie a means Of motion to the ship, because il is
Dhis. ofcourse we shall not, especially after what
We published day before yesterday, in relation to
The course Of the Executive throughout the Oregon
question, undertake any rsaiaiiOn Of this pretended
notion of the lntelligeneer about the "Notce."
There is not the slightest preence for believing that
the "Notice," if eft entirely in the hands Of the
President as to It's form, would have been given in
any other than the most respectful and eoncatory
terms. In its very essence it a measure Of
great frmnss, such as (if fully sustained by Con-
gress) to control the whole negotiation; and man
believes that the President would have given it in
any other spirit than spirit Of peace, in any other
terms than the terms betting such spirit. He
recommended nothing else.
Whenthe metropolitan wing journal is driven down
to such pitful pettfogging this to which have
referred in order to make out against the ad-
miaistraton, we may truly say that the wings, and
the wing journals, and the wing orators are in h
doleful predicament Bound down to do their daily
taskwork of factous partisan opposition, they find
themselves grievously scant of materials. They have
no "straw" with which. to make out their due Stale
of bricksn