The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-06

CITY OF WASHINGTON. I
SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER ., is4e.
The Union and its Assatianss.- Sympathy and Sup
port ~ The Democratic Press.
few days SINCE we alluded to the threats thrown out
by the New York Commercial Advertiser to the effect
that the Union should be slenced by prosecutions and
indictments for lbels. the complaint Of Gen. Taylor
and his cabinet Several other wing papers have copied
and approved Of the suggestion; and among others the
New York Courier and Enquirer has endorsed it, in the
following article:
other day that the conductors of the Washington Union
ought be made acquainted with the judicial authorities
for their infamous and unceasng bes upon the President
seems TO have struck considerable alarm into the conscious
sensbles OF those worthless for they have raised Ter
rbe hue and cry about IT, In pretended connexon win inc
alien and sedton laws enacted in the time Of the hrst
President Adams; pretending 70 believe or trying 70 make
Others believe, that had proposed resusciaton oil
those Objectionable and rescinded enacmens We do not
wonder the Union people shudder 1.-THE name ola libel
cult, indictment they must know that II they got
their deserts they would have heavy bill o. damages 70
pay. But they need be afraid Of any new atteapt
70 pass sedon law the existing law of libel adequate
deal with them, and good reason except
his magnanimy. or perhaps his contempt for such
against their dsgaceul attacks which pro-
vded for any other citizen who is wronged in his good
We make all reasonable allowance for the free
dom Of political discussion but IL to that Pres
ident has much right any other the protection
which the law give against the malice Of the slam
derer.
This extract from the Courier and Enquirer copied
by the Republic the personal and favorte organ Of Gen
cral Taylor and the cabinet The fact that il copied
into the cabinet paper reveals the additional fact that the
heroic occupant of the White House, and the magnan
nous gentlemen composing his cabinet, suDg to the
quick by the searching criticisms of the Union upon their
public and political conduct and policy And the fact
that it transferred to the columns Of the cabinet Off
cal proves that the recommended by the Courier
and Enquirer approved by that paper it also shows
that the old sediion law, or policy similar to it. has
advocates even in the cabinet; for the organ would
not have ventured to copy, and thus to give its
sanction to. an article recommending Of con-
duct abhorent 10 the sentiments and opinions of the
American people, without some countenance from the
cabinet In our former article we defed them, as we
now do, TO commence against the Union and its edi
tors the system of persecution and hostility which they
have darkly limited at Let them attempt, if they have
the inclination to do it. to put down the only press in this
city which has the courage and the determination
pose their misdongs, by assang its editors with pros
ecutions for libel.
But our purpose 10 particularly to call the
attention OF our readers to the fact that failing to silence
Us BY threats or to meet exposons Of the Mistakes
errors. and foes of the cabinet, the wing press have
systematically set to work to msrepresent and Islander
the ONION and its conductors And this work Of defa
nation there seems to be perfect of action among
the more inscriptions and unprincipled of the wing
press We have noticed these attacks in numerous pa.
pes OF that class in various parts of the Union, thus
showing that the plan of the conprators is systematic
and general Their object is to break down the chaac
ter and influence of paper by the grossest denunca
iion and misrepresentation both of the Union and its
editors personally Az specimen Of this kind Of attack,
we copy in eztenso the following article from the New
York Courier and Enquirer Of October I'd:
From the New York Courier and Enquirer.
Live and learn seems be a maxim of universal
application We thought had seen in past days the
whole OF unprlnciped partisanship. In
scrnpuous eroci Of the old Globe the silly pattudes of
the Madisonian the cautious sophises Of the Albany
Argus and the unhesang readiness of the lights of
locoocosm in varioos sections Of the country follow their
lead In any base and unprncpled scheme, verify be-
eved had the length and breadth, the height and
depth. of unieuered, dsuntess desperate partisan mag
nifty. But we have lived 10 Those various
Of fasehood and caumny but
premoaitory symptoms-of what was The Wash
his administration surPasses, in fluent shood in reckless
caumny, In utter disregard Of truth, decency justice the
Interests Of the country home and Its rights and good
name abroad. and ofeverything which honest hold
reputable and sacred anything have issued
from the daily press. Il editors fill from eight col
unns daily with original matter the whole OF which, from
beginning to end aud from week to week, be
raey described only by applying IL It's proper
baekgsardis. No denzen of Blingsgate, professional
bully who has living earn by befoulng every person of
respectable appearance and demeano could possibly mako
exhibition OF baseness and malice dsgraceful
human than daily spread before the public by the
central organ OF the styled democratic party Everything
that IL in any way connected with Gen. Taylor his
friends vilihsd and taduoed with systematic malig
nifty OF purpose, and brutality Of expression which
could be compassed In other way than by coalition Of
fhe passions Of Virginia and New Hampshire Its
editors have but object In deame and destroy
the administration and they feel perfect liberty
ploy any which may promise to attain that end.
ha stranger were to open the Union and take Its state
ments as In any degree rss what estimate would he
for Of the character Of the country and OF those whom the
people have selected for It's highest honors Gen. Taylor,
the Presdentwho has spent his whole life in the
ys service, who has defended her interests maintained
her rgh and covered her flag with glory the field
bafswhose character has before been exposed to
the slightest STAIN and who has always discharged honora-
bly,. ably, and usefay every duty confded himis de-
nounced ignorant imbecile. tool In the hands Of
Others regardless Of his word reacherous aithes his
country In league with oreign powers against her Iiber.
ties-a bsse-minded and back-heaned asprsnt pow.
e and hono for which he has single qualfc alton
nor the shadow Of claim And the language applied
him applied 10 his constitutional advisers all his
lily and friends, 10 all connected with him in any way
Everything that he says and does Is msepresened and