Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-26
THE MANUFACTURE OF "BRITISH OPINION
FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET.


!. This day week we claimed judgment against the
Administration, uponthe charge, made some days pre-
vously, of its being prvy to the fabrication Of
ticles laudatory of the wisdom and ability of the
cally upon the points of the Mexican War, the
Subtreasury, and the ant-protective Tarif:-to the
procuring their publication in the London papers,
and then re.importing them, with their false marks
and stamps upon them, " British Opinion" for
the purpose Of influencing the deliberations Of Con-
gress and the judgment Of their felow-citizens.
The government paper, the general attorney of the
party thus charged, having for whole week stood
mute we claimed it TO have tacitly confessed the
fact.
We certainly did not expect that, after such an
exposure and confessions the Executive organ would
have courage even to allude to that matter again.
70 our no little surprise, however, we find it again
referred TO in Saturday nights Union" as though
to make the confession more complete by recurring
to the subject without attempting to controvert one
word of the conclusion to which we had inevitably
arrived In the outset Of an article of two or three
columns, besides not denying the impeachment of
having been thus conusant of scandalous imposition
on the Public the veteran Editor actually compl-
nenfs US, in manner to suffuse with bushes our
dual visage, by imputing to some other hand, in flat
terng terms, the exposure of this corruption OF the
stream of public intelligence, not less worthy of rep
rotation in party warfare than is, in the eye of the
Law of Nations, the poisoning of springs of water
in an enemy's country.
Since our contemporary has afforded us an open
ing, however, by thus bringing the matter again be-
fore the Public, we will take advantage of it 10
cnch the nail we have already driven into this
counterfeit British coin.
The article which we copied into our paper Of
Monday last from (" the Union" into whose col
umns il had been transferred from London paper
of December Z, foreshadowed as the reader will
remember, with particularly, the features of the
policy which the Presidents Message, then antici-
pated, was to recommend defended it, and eulogzed
its craftsmanship, &c., &C.; being in almost all re-
spects laudatory as if it had been prepared for
!" the Union instead of an English paper The
London paper from which it was taken the
Daily News" Now, we ask the readers atten-
ton to an extract from that same paper of just six
opinion Of that paper, when speaking its real SEN
timens, unbribed topublsh faehoods for the Ameri-
can market. 'Such," says the correspondent of
the Boston Atlas who communicates it to that paper,
is real British opinion upon the war; as penned
by the English editor of the London Daily Ne,os,
before that paper, vergng upon bankruptcy, and
deprived of Dickens's pen, was forced TO accept
articles from any one who would pay for their
: insertion" Now for the extract:
From the London !" Daily News," June A. ls4s.
IF President Folks aim was to provoke the
Mexicans to war, he certainly issued orders ex-
tremely fitted to answer his ends. Mr..
Polk has let loose the whirlwind; the fever pas
sion of the war party possesses and will more and
more possess, the Union whilst the voices so in.
fluental in times of peace will scarcely obtain
hearing. We see in the reports of the debates an
observation of Mr.. CALHOUN discountenancing war:
but his weak whisper cannot disprove the sten
reality. The triumphant career of the southwes.
erns and the slave-traders is as irresistible owe
Congress as over Mexico"