The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-22

We have touched, in another article the substance of
"mares nest" We trust the classic reader will excuse
the cant phrase we employ, but we know no term
which more strongly expresses the extavagant and lu
dcrous bunder into which not less than four wing ed
tors have fallen; and it is impossible to guess how many
of their sagacous brethren destined to follow their
example The New Orleans Nationa" of the sth instant
sets the ball in notion" by addressing seven Serious
Questions for Mr. Buchanan to answer." Wegrudge the
space which these queries would occupy in columns
but what are we to think of the sagacity of the aore-
said editors, WHO boast OF their petensons to all the
sense and information of the country, The New Bed
ford Mercury thus introduces this mysterious article
The New Orleans National of the sh inst propounds the
following string of very significant queries Mr. Secre-
ary Buchanan to which the Secretary will be reluctant to
reply The National says, We venture that the
war was unnecessary even to accomplish the grasp
views of the administration relative Mexican terri
tory. Why it begun, will be shown in due time p
These will doubtless be further investigated by
the next Congress.
We lay before readers the first and the last of
the seven 'serious questions for Mr. Buchanan to an
swer" put with the most provoking innocence by the
"Buetn," and parroed with equal compacence by its
| learned confreres:
lst. Were you not well Mr. Polk, informed by let
tiers, that if General Taylor moved his forces and took
position opposite Maamoas, collision would place
and were these letters from such you could
not and did Gas subsequent prove) disc
them? Hare not these letters file among the pirate
papers of the Department of State? and did you
last winter to give copies Of them! .
7h Have you not been urged by men, in and power
produce the letters alluded above relieve you of the
charge of acting with dupcity towards Mr. Polk and Of
pretending ignorance of the facts contained in the cores
pondence have called for
The seers of the Philadelphia "North American
(xphi hoch hy nf
ress one of the most respectable organs of their par
y) repubish these questions with some peculiar
fourshes from their pen. They, too would repre-
sent the Secretary of State suppressng this mpo
tant and mysterious affair The New York "Trbune"
falls into the pit; and boldly calls for "he sup
pressed correspondence, with structures ALSO in its
own peculiar vein of decency and of truth.
Now, beg the reader to mark the explanation
which we have given in another article. And then we
ask enlightened public, what opinion they to form
of the qualifications of editors who thus speak of ga
pressed correspondence"wh circulate the report that
this statement cannot be wrung out of the Secretary
when these letters published in February last and
after they were openly read in the Senate OF the United
States, and had been fully explained by General
Cass' If this memorable fd,r pas does not teach these
four wing editors little modesty for the future, they
are beyond the reach Of all moral medicine and OF all
public rebuke. And now may we be permitted to answer
sepen questions, by asking What are to think of
critics. who would charge the Secretary with suppressng
papers, which have for more than four months been pub
lished to the world
We shrewdly suspect that this theme will furnish very
little matter of investigation for the wings in the next
Congress- and that the "Impeacher General" whose
zeal always outruns his discretion and is service
able to his foes than his friends will scarcely extract
from it one item for his bill of Indictment The four
editors will in vain invoke his scrunizng powers by
their serious queres or. if he will try his pryng
ingenuity into the suppressed (publishe) correspond
ence" it will again make good his maxim, Head him.
die"