The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-31

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The Herald and the Union
The last time noticed the Union, was on an
occasion when having advised the Herald OF the
recent of important dispatches from the seat of
war. and that paper having denied the very ex-
istence of any such documents, l furnished it
with the names of the writers, the dates of the
despatches, (their contents ! had furnished be-
fore) and the dates of theirreceipt. On that occa-
sion, proved satisfactorily, even to the editor Of
the Union, as have since had reason to believe,
that he is not in the confidence of the admins
rraton The notice Immediately preceding my
last, was called forth by palpable untruth per-
petrated by the Union in the course of an attack
on myself, of which untruth, 30 innocently was
it perpetrated, the very article containing it bore
intrinsic evidence. In that notice, proved con-
clusively that the editor of the Union is sadly
given to indiscrlminate fattery and abuse In
the notice Immediately preceding this last, ]
proved that the Union does not reflect the views
of the administration; in proof of which I in
stanced the matter of the election of a Senator
from Alabama; and also proved by quotation
from that paper, that itpractices court bufoonery
to melancholy extent. In my fifth last
notice of the Union, from the present, inclusive.
Il like particularly IN these matters) l proved,
not alone that it does not represent the views
and purposes of the administration, but that II
had actually misrepresented them on three seve-
raj important national questions. In addition to
this, proved that in all these cases, the Herald
did reflect, truthfully and accurately, the views
and purposes of the cabinet. 1t is unnecessary to
pursue the recapitulation further.
1t appears the Union Is not yet satisfied Last
evenings paper abuses the Herald as "auda-
cious" and guilty of "impudent and gratuitous
m Theraltes
will rail on to the end of his brief chapter-that
is, till the third of March, lS49. / do not in
tend any longer to check the exuberance Of
his vituperative fancy, nor to renew the pleasant
intercourse that subssted between that paper
and myself during the past summer and autumn.
BY reason of the constant and almost daily re-
currence of the task, have been long since COM
PEELED to desist from heaping modification on
that unfortunate journal, by the exposure of its
lamentable weakness Neither is 1t my present
purpose to sustain the averments OF the Herald;
the Unions contradc tion Is sufficient to stamp
them as true-nor to call attention to the blum
der that journal, in the very number containing
this attack on the Herald, penitently acknow
lodges to have made in accusing two members
OF the House of Representatives OF having con-
tradicted themselves unde oath, but simply to
administer to it gentle admonition.
Let, then, the Union abuse the Herald and
Galviensis without stlnt-let it assail the Pres-
dents opponents, and adulate his supporters, with
out observation-disclosures II revel in tergiversa-
ton, In selt-contradlctlon, In swsgger; but let
1t not NEEDLE with affairs OF State let 1t not
gable foolishly of cabinet questiOns-let it not
treat, with an assumption of ridiculous sOlemn-
ty, of matters of national importance-et it con-
fine itself to its proper sphere, the discussion of
village politics in Tennessee and Virginia-let
it direct its energies to the election of Mugs as
constable, In some little Virginia village, and TO
decreasing the wing vote for alderman in some
very small town in the interior of Tennessee
finally, let its motto be, it with its Pick
wickian prototype-"Potts andthe Constitution. -
Thus it will avoid knocking its head against the
Herald-thus it will fulfil its mssion-thus it
will conceal its folly. GALvIKNsIs.