The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-31
For the Union.
Plagiarism or the National !


The following paragraph appeared in the National In
telgencer of the Gath instant
'BUs,sEss OF TIE PATENT OFFcE.--Messrs Gideon of
and designs issued by the United States, from 1879
1877, from which we gather the following particulars,
people different quarters of the Union The number of
patents issued to the citizens Of Maine was 1873; New
Rhode Island Isl; nnsct'cui, LBS; New York. $3.50
New Jersey Az psansyvaSa 2isa peI ~, sa
louisiana q Tennessee los; Kenackg; 49, Ohio, 7!s
Florida, l. Texas, lows, 2; Wisconsin S. and District
of zs dp95ng The same s ne R., soTag
New York, 1857; Philadelphia. 9is and Baltimore 1870
southern States 2.lO9 Total. IioI5"
In jnsiic. to the Commissioner OF Patents, deem it
my duty say, that the information with the regard TO
the numbers of patents issued to citizens OF the several
States and the four principal cities OF the Union contain
ed in the paragraph above cel not gathered by
the editors Of the nellgencer any OF their paragraph
Messrs Geon but it gathered from table winch
Commissioner has had compiled under his direction,
with great labor and at an expense OF Si3o IN clerk hre
for his annual report and for which the writer OF
the paragraph was too ilbera 10 give the commissioner
credit
That the editors of the nelligenrer did NOT gather the
results contained in the paragraph above copied from the
lists published by Messrs Gideon, proved concusvey
by the fact that Messrs Gs list also compiled and pub
shed under the direction OF the does not
contain the patents for 1917 and lsis, embraced in the
sum total of i0l5 whereas, the table OF the Commis-
sioner, from which the information ptagiari=ed.
does; and the results stated in the paragraph compare
precisely with the results Of the Commissioners table
few days since, highly respectable gentleman APP
piled to the Commissioners for permission TO one OF the
writers for the ntesencer copy for the of that
paper the of the table above alluded to, which
was given on condition that due credit should be given
for the matter which might be taken The condition has
been complied with by the pay misrepresentation con-
tanned in the paragraph copied above from that paper in
which is assumed that the editors have performed the
labor which in fact has been done at the Patent Ofce
under the direction and supervision of the Commissioner
proper add, that the gentleman who applied for
the privilege which the Commissioner accorded to the
writer for the Inelligencer is too honorable and high
minded to lend himself act unworthy of Jour-
nal pretending responsibility, and would have
asked for the privilege he had imagined that dishon
oabe would have been made OF the favor which he
solicited.
No other motive is apparent for the plagiarism of the
IntelIgence except the circumstance that the Commits
sioner of the school of politics to which the
editors of that paper belong He however, asks ia
vors at their hands, and for the little filings
his reports which have been recently made in that paper,
conscious that majority of the people of the United
States, of both political parties, approve and sustain
them; which be said of the Inlegencer in
reference TO its own party. X. W.