The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-27
A. Pair OF Llbclle rs.
We clip the following from the ST. Louis New Era

We clip the following from the St. Louis New Era:
M Burke has been the principal contributor 10 the Union
since the period above named and has simply transferred
his editorial chair from the Patent Office the Of
the Union, on Pennsylvania avenue As malignant and
unprncped reve of the President and his cabinet he has,
since the advent of this administration, given conclu
vc evidence in the daily emission OF and alsehood
through the columns of the paper of which he is the
acknowledged conductor. So far, them any editorial
change concerned there will in fact be per-
sons"
The statement that the junior editor of this paper
its principal contributor any period Of its existence
utterly unfounded and untrue That wrote an edito
rial for the Union from the day Of General Taylors in
auguraton to our removal by him. is equally unfounded
and untrue The statement that we are free soiler,
made in another part of the editorial OF the New Era
alike uniounded and untrue. Now has the editor of
that paper the courage and the manness TO tell the truth
and do justice to political opponent'
We cut the following from the Philadelphia News:
"When he [Mr. Ewingl came into office, and about
him to what abuses needed the earliest reform, he
found Mr. Burke at the head OF one Of the important
minor departments of the government converting not
only into political engine home, but through sending
out streams of inquiry undermine the administration
and weaken its efficiency. But the unbnshing hardhood
of Mr. Burkes political nature further prompting in
decent and offensive the Chief Executive de.
grading his own POSITION and insulting the good
the people"
After we have shown, we did, in reply to the CAL
umnies OF The deuct National Wig, by the testimony of
wings in and of the Patent Office which the editor of
the News must haze hardly expected that even
he could be unprncplcd and mendacious as to re-
iterate the base libel that had converted the Patent
Office into political engine" AS to our sending or
prompting indecent and offensive messages the Chief
Executive, (meaning Gen. Taylor) any one con-
nected with the administration, the statement is alike
untruehe base coinage of the brain that conceived and
transferred the libel to the columns of the News We
never sent prompted message of any kind 10 Gen
Taylor, did send message TO any of his
Secretaries, but of the respectful character We
know what belongs TO the propriees of official and
private relations, if the caumnator of the News does
not
This mendacious ibeer adds
Wore full history of his (Mr. Burkes) official course
given the public it would forever shut his mouth and
seal it with shame"
We will only remark that we shall endeavor to induce
the Senate to call for the of our REMOVAL and if
we find any rejecting upon private or official char
acter, we pledge ourselves that their authors shall be
held responsible for them We expected to be slandered
personally by the baser portion of the federal press when
went into the Union and therefore we are not disap
pointed at the personal caumnes of the Philadelphia
News But we defy them all and promise them tina, they
will moi divert us from purpose OF unwilling the char
acter of the wing party, and the administration which
they have installed in power