Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-29
A WORD MORE WITH THE ADMINISTRATION
AND IT'S ORGAN.


the justice to remark that the article in Our Tues
days paper, upon " the Administration and H. Or
gan" though written with determination 10 main
tain rights as citizens and TO yndicae our 20.
litica position was free from personal luminosity %
} malicious motive
The immediate reply from the government Orgal
: lin Tuesday nights paper was altogether worthy
of the source from which had been for months pre-
viously poured out continuous stream OF falls,
aspersion upon US, whose sole offence had been on
constant eXerlions to avert ain unnecessary war
and, when that became impossible, to prevent III,
spirit of carnage and rapne from running riot, and
by its excuses dishonoring il not eventually ruin
ing, our country. We expected some such a reply
and were not disappointed. All the pain which L
| caused us was on account of the venerable Editor
of the Union," that he should be supposed by any
body (not by us) to be the author of a tissue oil
false accusation and transparent malignty, fit only
to excite in the public mind unmtgated disgust.
10 that sentiment, and to the compassion of the
Public, we contentedly leave that article.
! The second instalment Of reply to us, in the
Union Of Wednesday night from different
hand, though still Astounding in impulations both
idle and preposterous, is of different character
from the first. There is some approximation TO
truth, some attempt at argument in it something
which it is possible to lay hold of and examine,
as we intend to do the material points in which it
| takes issue with u.s.
First, then. The 8 Union declares itself to be
" an independent Journal that :" it advocates and
defends the leading measures of the Administration
only) in SO far as, and because, they embody those
principles and that policy;'' that " this has been
the position Of the Union ever since was estab-
lished, and that position remains entirely unchang
ed" Upon which we have only to say, in jusf-
| cation of what we have advanced this subject,
| that the !" Union really appears-what is by no
| means uncommon with public men and Journalistic
! misunderstood its own position. What exact views
the Union has heretofore given to the Public of
its relations to the Executive, we have no time to
examine its files for the purpose of informing our
| readers. But our memory supplies one view of
the subject from another source, which the {" Union"
will not we presume, repudiate, which shows on
| aohat ground it was placed when it was established,
as then universally understood, and as now under.
stood by almost every person but the Editor him.
self. The to which we refer is the early
Correspondence from Washington for the Rich
mond Enquirer, within few days after the first
appearance of the Union y from which Cores
pondence, under date of May, 1s45, we quote the
following:
The Union is established on the plan arranged
by the Administration and its Edtor-is the OR
GAN ofthe Administration, to be relied on, being
in daily intercourse soiM The President and Ca
biaet," &c.
If we had been misied by such information as
this, from source SO directly connected with the
fountain head we certainly could not be held to
blame. But all Information of the character of the
government paper was to the same effect For in
stance, in an article of the "Union," published in
the shape of an advertisement for several success
sve months in the first half year of its existence,
the following information was given to the Public
The Administration has brought with it con-
siderable accession of talents. Several tried and
distinguished members of the Democratic party
have accepted Office underit. Some Of them haze
= literally contributed their literary labors to our
benefit, and we hope 10 enlist others IN oar
: service"
After this admission that the Members Of the
new Administration, including perhaps land proba-
bly, the President himself, had literally assisted
it in its Editorial labors who could doubt that
the Union" was the organ Of the Administration
nay, that it was part of the Government, as much
as any one of those distinguished members of the
Democratic party who had accepted Office under
it! For ourselves, we never doubted it and our
faith in the fact was certainly not diminished by the
circumstance of our never having heard from the
!" Union,' to the best of our recollection, on any
occasion, the slightest whisper of disapplobation of
any measure approved by the President.
In reply to our showing, that of necessity, we
must look to other channels of information as to
i" the views and purposes" of the Administration,
because the " Union is not now always to be re-
lied upon as their exponent, the Editor defes to
prove our assertion, or any part of it. We have
neither time nor inclination to repeat what we have
already said upon that subject but we have no OBJ
lection to meet the " Union upon the ground
which it has selected in the following extract from
its reply to US:
I" The of the. Oregon question is cited
against u.s. 1t is most unfortunate selection for
the Integeneer.' We defy that journal to
prove from our files, and from the published do
cuments, that we ever wrote one sentence on that
whole subject misrepresenting the views of the
Cabinet Our position upon the abstract ques-
ton of our tile to Oregon the very position
developed SO LUMINOSITY by the Secretary of
State in his correspondence with Mr.. Pakenham.
And as to the proper compromise boundary line,
we deemed it fit, pending the negotiation, to main