The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-24

When we prepared the article in paper OF Friday
asst, correcting further misrepresentation OF Mr. Stewart
respecting the amounts received by Gen. Cass beyond
his salary we felt so disguised with the unfair and IL
liberal course pursued by him this subject that be-
evng had made it sufficiently manifest to the coun
try that his statements could not be relied on felt no
disposition to notice anything further which he might put
FORTH and SO stated In his letter in the National Intel
sencer OF Saturday morning. however, there one or
points which justice to ourselves requires TO
tce.
II will be reeollected that some time since publish
ed two articles severely reviewing his two speeches, and
pointing the gross Misrepresentation they contained
on the subject of Gen. Cass's allowances. These
tcles were deemed worthy, by the Democratic Assoca
ton in this city, of being printed in pamphlet form
for circulation in order TO counteract any mischevous
effect which might arise from the misrepresentation OF
those speeches, the latter OF which was being sown
broadcast over the land They printed accordingly,
with preface Now, Mr.. Stewart speaks of this pam
phle having been published in the Union, and he notices
particularly its first page. which he alleges contains four
teen fasehoods The first page of the pamphlet is the
preface TO our articles and not published in our
paper though may suit his purpose to say or to con-
vey the idea that it was He himself appears to be the
authority for part of that paper, and those who pre-
pared it, we have no doubt, fully able to justify and
defend it against the charge of fourteen fasehoeds Mr.
Stewart we suppose, thus liberal in his number, in or
der to try and equal the number of which he has himself
been convicted.
The next point is Mr.. Stewards comments upon what
we said towards the close OF our second article in
to his second Speech the subject of the reports being
NH rb into tha Of Reprp
senatves by the President towards the close Of the last
session, to call of that body respecting the
amounts paid to Generals Cass and Taylor. What we
stated we honestly believed the time to be true We
did so on information believed be entirely reable but
that not correct for the reports have been
printed, and form document So The first intmation we
had of this fact was contained in Mr. Stewards own let
ter in the Integencer of the It'll ns noticed in our pa
per of Friday, then stated in note. The document
not printed, if printed not issued. far can
ascertain, until after second article was written
Apart from the duty of not perverting facts, Mr.
Stewart has done, had known that had been ordered
to be printed we should least have been polite
say not and should not have taken the trouble
did to obtain otherwise some of the information it
contained. We glad it has been printed, and cheer
fully withdraw the charge of suppression which, as we
have already stated made in the honest belief that it
was correct This, however, in way affects the facts
contained in articles, based upon and taken from
other documents the upon which Mr.. Stewart
proessed to base his two speeches. the msrepresenta-
tons of which exposed. Let him get those
facts if he He only do by making facts of
his own by doing he has done--tearing items from
their context and changing their phraseoogy and other
wise garbling documents; by duplicating the same
amount to make larger aggregate; and by setting forth
as "exa pay" amounts received by Gen. Cass ndem-
MITIGATION for actual expenses in the performance of his
public dues-as in the of the items for Expenses Of
courts and OF the third contingent expenses
OF mission to France !" and the amounts allowed by Mr.
Calhoun and subsequent Secretaries of War for era
TONS account of the heavy expenses attending his
intercourse with the Indians; for Office rent. clerk hire,
fuel stationery" &c. and for actual travelling expenses
when required and specially appointed to act commits
to negotiate Indian treaties. and to perform other
public duties foreign alike to his position of governor
and superintendent of Indian affairs It is only by
GLIDING such items these that Mr.. Stewart has
been able to figure out his amount OF "extra pay
which went into General Casss private pocket" Let
the country Judge, from these facts of his fairness and
honesty and whether his statements to be relied
For ourselves rather amused than otherwise with
his twistings and tunngs with his document and
feel somewhat curious to the result of his refgurng
therefrom In paper of Friday showed the gross
mposture of his first attempts and in his second-n his
letter in Saturdays Inteligencerhe has given the false
hood to himself to the extent of 276 SO in one ITEM
he now deducts that sum from $l7S4O; the whole of
which he had previously stated went into Gen Casss
"private pocket" We will wait for further develop.
ments especially he has had grace enough left to state
that he has said nothing OF Gen. Casss private life OF
character though he may have been compelled to this
confession by the force OF public opinion and the honor
able testimony Of such men Joseph Gales, the Hon
Abbot Lawrence, and s. S. Prentss, and others But
this statement is not strictly true, for any one
who knew nothing OF General Glass; on reading Mr..
Stewards speeches-especialy the secondhand sup
posing them to be true, would TO the conclusion
that he of the most corrupt and unprncpled men
that lived instead of being of the most pure and
upright, whether in public or in private le for
cognse two codes of moralsone for each sphereas
the gentleman seems to do.
Mr. Stewart says "Now, distinctly assert that this
charge of 74s6i of extra pay against Gen. Taylor in
addition to his regular pay is sheer fabrication, with
out shadow Of foundation in truth" &c. Now, though
we do not think the gentleman's mere assertion
should be allowed to, would go very far after some OF
the extraordinary statements he has made, we are moi
going let him, he seems anxious to do get ND a
false issue with this point We have never said