The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-17
estate Secrets, and ..pespins Tom

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"there is hole in the green curtain,
and represents itself in the attitude of the
"httle boy looking in without PAYING
to amuse the outsiders with all manner OF
funny stories of what is taking place on
the stage. This is, no doubt, very con.
genial enployment-this peeping about
this spying and prying into what it calls
estate secrets ;" but, when it claims to
'lift the curtain" and to be s'partially
admitted behind the curtain" and to give
veraclous account of what is going on
among the State actors, il sinks the spy
IN the impostor. The State gossip of bar
rooms, the contents Of ''leaky vessels'
IN the departments, the tittle-tattle of Lo-
cofoco informers-all this forms staple for
the Union; the use of which it may well
claim by virtue of what it calls the eli
cense of opposition" But, when it peeps
through ''hoe in the curtaia'' for the
sake of betraying what it learns to the
French government, and to show why Mr..
CLAYTON cannot explain particular oc-
currence to their satisfaction, the char
acter of the spy and the impostor is
merged in that of the quasi-traitor. The
offence then ceases to be one against good
tlste and good manners merely, and be-
comes an offence against the country.
But with all its peeping behind the cur
tain, the Union fails to see any thing to
keep it in good humor. 1t is in tower
ing passion all the time, and suffers its rage
to so get the better of its judgment that it
hardly knows what it says. 1t denies that
it ever did thousand things that it wa,
never charged with, while it omits to deny
the real matters of accusation 1t denies,
for instance, that the Secretary of State
ever lent it red cent Who said he had ?
1t is not pretended that he is in the inter-
ests of the american Secretary of State
There would have been some sense in the
denial if it had been made with regard to
the French government. What merit is
it in the Union that it has never received
cred cent" from Mr.. CLAYTON Why
does it not say that it never received a
sou from M. DE ToCaUEvILLE
And what does its column of assertions
and protestations in regard to M. PoUssIN
amount to 1t merely furnishes evidence
to corroborate all our charges. 1t shows
that the senior editor was at M. PoUssIN'S
fete last winter, and that twice in one day,
after his rupture with our Government,
M. PoUssIN called at his house. But this
is not all. On the second visit, the senior
editor denied himself to his French friend.
But that there may be no mistake about
this, we shall quote the very words of the
Union:
eve have had no communication with Nj. Pous-
sin since the night of the fete which he gave last
winter on the anniversary of the French revolu-
ton. Instead of seeking explanations from NJ
Poussin about his difficulties with Mr. Clayton
we avoided them. Upon his last visit to Wash
ington, he called twice in day at the house of
the senior editor. On the last call the editor was
III LOuSt ana he ueCllneu seeing the minister;
from no want of courtesy, but because he felt it
was improper and he determined TO keep himself
clear from even the suspicion of any connivance
He neither saw the minister had the slightest
communication at any time afterwards with
HIM"
Now, would M. PoUssIN have called
tloice at the house of the senior editor,
unless he supposed that he would be well
Gomez He probably called to express his
thanks for the service that the Union had
rendered his master, and his "gratitude
for expected favors." II was very right in
NJ. PoUssIN TO desire to make such ac-
acknowledgements, and to talk over with the
senior their mutual grievances. But what
consciousness of guilt was implied in the
senior EDITORS refusal to see gentleman
who had called twice upon him in the same
dayl Unless there had been the factous
and reasonable dnimuS in the senior, is it
probable that he would have turned his
French friend away from his own door!
Did he not fear that this corroborating cir
cumstance OF domiciliary visits from the
French ex-minister would prove too clear
ly the nature of the connexion, to be in
ferred from his public course'
One tete and two visits confessed by the
senior editorl All denials of concert and
connivance made on the part of the senior
editor-not word for the other half of the
establishment All the rage, all the pro-
testation, monopolized by the Senior-not
a syllable from his co-patriotl
Honors TO the Dead.
The grand military funeral in honor
of the illustrious dead--Major General