The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-13
THE UNION.


men who well known to have been the political and
personal friends OF Mr. Wright during the whole course
of his ei and, indeed, we confidently affirm, that
neither in the city the State of New York has am
one been appointed to Office by the President, who
was known or believed by him to have been defamer
and opponent OF Silas Wrght-unless, indeed the man
aer in which some of the barnbuners now use and
abuse the name OF Mr. Wright makes those epithets ap
plcaDe 10 themselves We do not profess know fully
lhepocal bias, as between the two sections of all the
principal revenue officers the northern and lake from
TIER oil the State; yet do know that some of them
have taken conspicuous part as boiling barnburners
and assisted The wings TO gain the ascendency in the
State.
In hlng the post Offices in New York the same poll
cy OF mpartay between the two sections of the part
has pevaied and many of these places are in the hands
OF men who boast that they are barnbuners and act
openly with that organization In making this design a.
hon OF barnburners among the oficeholders of New
York, we would by no means be understood as alleging
that all OF hemor, indeed, any considerable portion of
them-have been actively opposed to the administration
or that more than very few of them are now willing to
abandon their principles and their party, and Join in the
scheme of some of the barnburnng leaders to defeat the
national democratic ticket
To show, in conclusion how utterly reckless both of
truth and OF probability is this charge put forth by the
Atlas that prescription of the banburners has been the
policy Of the Administrations we would refer TO the fac,
that the fercest barnburner papers, which are daily in
dugng in violent assaults upon the President and the ad
mnsration-the "Atas itself, the New York Globe .
and the "New York Evening Post-have been, and now
continue to be, the peculiar recipients of the printing
patronage of the federal government
We have thus disposed of the base and preposter GUS
charge brought by the "Atas against the administration
of having 'potted the political destruction of Silas
Wright and of having used the patronage of the gov
eminent for that purpose
From these higher matters turn for a moment to
what OF far less consequence to the country The
Albany Atlas does US gross injustice. In December,
1914, we declined positively to come to Washington
We have the letter in possession, which we then
addressed to a Virginia frend-a member of Congress
we pass over second proposition which was made to
us from another quarter in February ls45 third sug
gestion subsequently made to u.s. which induced us
to visit Washington We had a long and the frankest
possible conversation with the President and Mr. Blair
and nothing would have induced us to remove to Wash
ngton if we were not satisfied that agreed throughout
determined to set up no rival paper to the Globe
ard Mr. Blair was kind enough to express his satisfaction
with department personally towards himself He and
Mr.. Rives acted towards us with the greatest ber-
atty and magnanmity We purchased the Globe esab-
llshmen for $4,000 The office transferred to us,
with the OF Mr. Van Buren, 1t is not for us to
say whether we have done duty in the responsible
and difficult position have assumed We know
that zeal industry has been wanting at any one
moment since we have been the editors of the
Union. We know, too, that we have not been def
cient in Cancellation towards party. We came
hereas we said in prospectusnot Offend but TO
conclate; not to make breaches but 10 heal them The
assertion of the Albany Atlas s therefore, unqualedly
false, when says that During the life OF that disn
yuished man. (Mr Wright,) the lminstraon-of which
the Union is the organ-was constantly plotting his po
cal destruction. 1t will be in vain for the editor of the
Union to deny this; for he himself brought to Wash
ngon and the Union established and made the organ of
the administration, in hostility to Silas Wright" 1t is
false that with any such views 1t is false that
we entertained any hostility towards Mr. Wright Who
it was that made the declaration which is ascribed to him
by the Atlas-who was he conservative member of the
Congress that expired in March, 1915, who was spoken
of for the nomination of Vice President under Mr. Tyler
and who wrote as early April 1s45 spondent in
this city, albany We haze got rid of Blair Rves and
installed DIR. Richie notwithstanding the ho,cng of the
Hermitage and The lamentations Of Underneath and ,cc
wH NOW kill Cato Wright we know not We have no
suspicion of the But certain it is that this decar-
ration was made without the slightest authority Ger.
tain it is, too, that the Union spoke of Mr. Wright
without the utmost respect; and that when we found
to our surprise, that he in danger of losing his cleo
ton, and that of the federal officers were suspected
OF working against him, used the strongest language
we could employ to rally them TO the rescue We will
not refer to the honors which paid to his lamened
ashes
But enough OF these silly charges, these indecent mis-
representations these extravagant denuncations which
show how little confidence is to be placed in the udg
ment, how little truth be attached to the imprisoned
assertions of those who make them
The lntelgencers leader of Saturday morning does not
hail General Taylors nomination with much acclamation