The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-07
THE UNroN,su JoUnNALIsM.

the present Administration to power, is,
perhaps, without parallel in the annals Of
partisan warfare. II is the concentration Of
the gall Of bitterness against the Peoples
victor, the distillation Of all the evil passions
Of human nature. The desire for revenge
has obscured, and still obscures, all its per-.
captions Of right and justice, to such do
gree, that it pursues no path but that lead
ing 10 the fulfment OF its wicked desires.
The expression Of its features is Satanic,
and its readers Of the same faith even shrink
back with terror from the unnatural stare Of
its evil eye. The spirit Of The murderer
dwells in every one Of its lineaments. Its.
ferocity is only equalled by its thirst for re-
venge. Hatred--unmitigated hatred Of no.
nest Z.cHARY TAYLOR and his powerful and
upright Cabinets at the bottom Of every
thought that appears in It's structures upon
the Administration. The President IS
demon in ita eyes. All his virtues are vices,
and his political destruction, and that of his
associates in the Government, is the grand
aim and purpose of this central Democratic
newspapers diabolical journal SIN.
The contributors Of editorial articles 10
the Unions columns have drawn their wea-
pons from the armory Of evil. 70 hurt, to
pull down, to destroy, to trample under foot,
to kill, are their sole objects, and they are
in daily use Of the appropriate arms to effect
these monstrous purposes. Nor is IT the
death Of the political reputation OF the Adj
ministration, which is thus comprised, but il
ID the death also If its personal reputation.
These two objects necessarily widen the
range, and increase the points of attack.
Arrows dipped in the most malignant pol-
soas are thus sped at random, under the pre-
sumption, that they will strike somewhere,
and in1ict a wound. Errors Of adminisira-
ton it is not their purpose to expose, and by
exposing, correct. It is to prevent sue
cessful administration Of public affairs, to
make all the acts Of the President appear to
be evil acts, to persuade the People that the
man Of their choice is unworthy Of their con-
6dence-to hold him up as devil incar-
nate, in whom truth resides MOTTO utterly
confound and destroy him and his Cabinet,
politically and personally.
The main weapons Of attack for the pro-
duction Of such dire results, may be readily
conceived They are Justification Of acts,
misrepresentation of motive, accusation Of
corruption, charge Of want Of virtue. These
are precisely the very instruments, by which
the Union has been and still is endeayoring,
every day, to effect its unpatriotc and wick
ed designs.
Boldly, unblushingly, shamelessly, do its
editorial writers, every morning, falsify eve
ry public and private act Of the President
and his cabinet, Of which they may chance
to obtain knowledge drinking. II they
announce official information Of the acts Of
the Administration, they take every occa-
sion to accompany it by comments Of the
groasest personal insult, to the Executive and
his chiefs, and to ialsify il by the most vim
dictive CLOSES and explanations. Not con-
tent with this display Of malignity and false
hood, they proceed with the utmost GOODNESS
10 attribute to the Administration, the mo-
tiyes for its acts, and we have not yet met
with single case, in which they have not,
either ignorantly or purposely misrepresented
those motives, in the most inexcusable man
ner. To believe these writers, whose con-
tributions are greeted with SO much iiendish
delight by the Editor of the Union, as to
secure for them the highest and most ell
igible place in his paper, Gen. TAYLOR is
no better than common hangman, and the
members Of his cabinet, unworthy of as
sociation with any man pretending to even
ordinary decency. TENSE servants Of the
people are titled, by the Union's editors,
with applications, which the poissardes Of
Paris would be ashamed TO nse. They are
charged as being corrupt to the core, as be-
ing utterly devoid Of every virtue, as being
worse than wild beasts, whom itwould be as
unfit, as unsafe to trust. And yet, this is he
journal that has the consummate impudence,
to advise the National II'hig to be decent
and iignifed in its conduct! We have no
doubt, it will refer 10 this very article, as
proof Of our want Of decency and dignity,
a. evidence Of our abuse Of the Democracy.
II it does, we will confess, in advance, for its
especial benefit, that the necessity OF refer
ring, at any time, to that vehicle of SANDER
and malignity, does render us--but to that
extent only--liabe TO The charge Of lack Of
decency and dignity, and that, il telling the
truth Of the objects and purposes Of the DEM
ocratic sachems, or stripping the mask from
their hideous faces, be abuse Of the Democ-
racy, we acknowledge our guilt, and shall
continue 10 pcrsevere in the work of LAYING