The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-23
TIL E REP u B Lie.
WASHIN GTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER %. ls4s.

FRIDAY MORNlNG, NONEMBEB 70, l649.
''When il was determined TO announce the def
cit which is discovered, il would have been far
more satisfactory to the commercial communities,
which were precluded from the information until
doled out through channels having no sympathy
interest in common with them, TO have been fur
nshed with an exhibit of the manner in which II
occurred. As lis, we are left TO conjecture and
suspense, and likely not to adopt false con-
illusions upon subject of very large moment TO
those interests which have most claim upon the
confidence and respect of the Administration, and
which have harassed il with the least demands
Washington Correspondent Of the Phild. North Ame-
ricGn.
Let US look at this matter moment.
There are various ways OF conveying in
formation to the people. 1t may be com
municated to the anonymous correspond
ents of journals published in other cities,
and appear in the shape of mysterious
hints and shrewd intimations in the first
place, to be followed up by Geographic
dispatches, and ampler details from
'well-informed correspondents" or g cor
respondents with peculiar advantages of
information" or correspondents known
to be in the confidence of member
of the Cabinet" 1t may then be mixed
up with crude and rash speculation,
with false CLOSES and comments, and turn
all business affairs topsy-turvy for day
or two, till people begin to think for them
selves, and obtain reliable facts from re-
sponsible sources. Meanwhile, the ope-
rations in the stock-market go on briskly;
and in the end, men find that they have
been dubbed by an idle clamor which is
raised for the purpose of giving interest to
letter from Washington.
This is one way, and in our Judgment
a very bad way. The same information
may appear in journal published in the
city of Washington, in the form Of plain
statement of facts, without appendant rho
domontade or appurtenant jargon; and 90
to the whole people at one and the same
time, with the weight it derives from
official sanction and responsible authority.
With due Difference, we apprehend that
this is the proper mode of conveying such
information. Then, nobody derives undue
advantage; no press is disturbed because
It's own correspondent has failed to be ia
vored with ''exciting intelligence" no
unnecessary alarm is created; no business
is unsettled; no stock -jobbing RACES in
Chestnut street or Wall street, and no
men are made bankrupts or millionaires.
The writer in the North american com
plains that the commercial communities
severe precluded from the information,
until doled ont through channels having
no sympathy or interest in common with
them We admit that we have no pc
culiar sympathies or interests with the
commercial communities; nor can we un-
derstand the suggestion that they have
s'the most clam upon the confidence and
respect of the Administration. This is
a novel and an irrational proposition. The
commercial communities possess precisely
the same ''claim," and none other, upon
the confidence and respect of the Admins
tration that is possessed by the agricultu-
raj, mechanic, laboring and professional
communities. Our sympathies and in
terests, we admit, are as broad and gene
raj as those Of the American people; and
we apprehend that the people will hardly
sympathize with the idea that they are to
be precluded from important and interest
ing information until it has been especial
ly conveyed through interested and sym
pathizing channels to the commercial com
munities.
It's probable enough that with due en-
bellishment, and with the aid Of appro-
pirate rhetoric, the fact that there may be
a deficit Of fifteen millions in the treasury
might have created "a universal alarm and
excitement a. was occasIoned by the as
founding announcement that two great
countries were on the eve Of hostilities, in
consequence Of a correspondence between
two of their functionaries about keg Of
two Of tobacco.