The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-27
From the New YOrs Es.alng Post


at happened TO be The fact that when the Prs..
dents message upon the state Of some Of our foreign
relations was read in the Senate this morning ysSv
few newspaper correspondents were in their seal.
and those few supposed there would be no difficulty
thrown in the way OF their copying il in the secrt
lary's Office, and therefore took very few notes of h
The effect Of Withholding il for the benefit Of N,
Union newspaper, Is TO keep il from the knowledss
Of the great commercial community, whom il most
concerns, for time equivalent TO twenty -four hour,
whole business day. The reasonable presun,n,ior
was, that the Official printers desired the MONOPOLY
Of the paper for the purpose Of issuing printed
copies in time for the FIVE o'clock mail No glimn.s
OF the document has appeared at this tms (nins
o'clock at night,) nor will until tomorrow mornin.
This is equally provoking to The public, and az.
creditable to the prophetors Of the govemmen,
Journal
at is 10 be remarked that the important eorr..
spondence respecting the exaction illegal duties.
which was carried OF with like expedition yester.
day afternoon, was not forthcoming in the Union
this morning. and no one can safely predict when I,
VIII be published. Cn1sn
The Evening Post, in publishing the above pe,u.
liant note Of its Washington correspondent, has no,
displayed its usual urbani,y and courtesy. In mel.
Their Of the instances referred to, was the document
sent to the Office Of the public printers with Ii.
knowledge Of ''the propns,ors Of the governm.n,
Journal" but, in both cases, they were doubles,
transmitted by the proper officers Of Congress under
sense Of public duty wersgrst much that the CORE
sPondent of the New York Evening Post was unsbl.
TO obtain copy to be sent to that paper but ,hes,
matters are sometimes unavoidable. Il is imposs.
Die, when document is ordered to be printed and
laid on the table the next morning that the original.
should be detained in the sccre,sr7s Office until al
the numerous reporters and correspondents of the
newspapers shall have taken copy Such course
would, are sure, be very gratifying to Ii. feel
ngs Of the secretary, bat il would frustra,e the or.
der Of the Senate. We stated, some weeks since
when the last correspondence between Mr.. Psk.s.
ham and Mr.. Buchanan was sent to Congress, that
every proper facility within our power would b.
extended in regard to furnishing slips for the v.rou.
journals which required them. We repea, the same
suggestion now. We have no wish-none what.
ever-to forestsll our cotemporaries in Publishing
any public document ordered TO be printed by eth.
er House Of Congress; nor had we any knowledge
that our neighbors Of the Integencer had been un.
able to procure copy Of the message, unit peru.
sal Of that paper the next morning advised US Of
eur Office, had intimation to tina, effect been made,
in time for their mornings publication. But the
very cirl correspondent Of the Evening Post has In
simulated, that we desired monopoly OF the mss-
sage in question "for the purpose Of issuing printed
copies in time for the five O'Clock mail" II SO hap
pens, however, that the document did not reach
our Office until few minutes before that time,
I'D A. Il.
to such purpose. But if it had, and we had
adopted the reasonable presumption" Of this cap
tious correspond ent, certainly the New York Even
ing Post would have been among the first to whom
we should have sent 'sp." Moreover, it SO hap.
pens, that the same mail which conveyed this cor
respondents letter to New York, carried the very
document to at least t,ro Of the papers of that city
the "Journal of Commerce" and the "Globe;r and
that, through the medium Of their respective
pondents. The same facilities were open equally
to all. Then how came the "Journal" and the
"Globe" to distance their colleague The "reasona-
BILE presumption" sthey used due diligence, and the
civil "Civis" did not.
The innuendo in respect to our "withholding the
message from the great commercial community for
"a hours" &c, &c, needs no comment what we
have just mentioned puts that to rest.
% The document referred to in the second para.
graph of the above letter, it turns out, was
not published in the Union until last even.
ing, and not until our attention was called
to it by an officer of one Of the departments. 1t
was then set up from the copy printed for Con-
gress, after it had been circulated through the two
houses. We do not profess to publish all the import
ant documents transmitted to, or emana,ng from
Congress: our limits preclude the possibility ofsuch
course. But, as we have said before, every rea'
sonabe facility will always be rendered to those who
may wish to procure copies of any document Of In
tereat, provided it do not interfere with our parr-
mount duties as public printers. ., ,...,
But il is time TO be done with these unciviI at
tacks and their necessary explanations. 1.-THE ed'
tor Of the "Unon" were actuated by the same lib
eral spirit which seems to prompt these attacks,
then indeed might there be some cause for COM
plant
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