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

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filed since the 4th Of March last Read ev-
cry morning the ferocious attacks upon Pre-
sdcnt Taylor, and say whether the records
Of SANDER can produce anything that shall
begin to be equal to them. Read the daily
outpourings Of abuse Of the several cabinet
ministers, descending from structures upon
the exercise Of the appointing power conilded
to them, by law, down to puerile verbal
criticisms, without force or wit, upon their
state papers, and say, whether the news
paper press, since the invention Of printing,
has ever afforded anything even remotely
like them The annals ofthe lowest and most
abject Of the London or New York personal
press, do not furnish an example of personal
persecution equal to that which the Union
has waged and still wages against Colonel
Warren.
We have read in books Of the plans and
schemes and measures OF banditti, Matched
and perfected in their mountain hiding places,
for the destruction Of the life and wealth Of
hapless wayiarers, and carried into execu-
ton on the highway afterwards, but none
Of their plans, schemes or measures have
ever come up, in our opinion, to those de-
signed by the Editors Of the Union, and set
forth with such deadly intent in the columns
Of their journal, for the destruction Of politi-
cal and personal reputation. The food
gates Of fslsehood, the sluicea Of detraction
and SANDER against the Administration are
opened, and their black waters, desolating
everything they come in contact with, flow
in rivers through the columns Of the Union,
and the Democratic leaders shout hosannas
at the spectacle, and freely lend their means
to support the vehicle that goes among the
people freighted with this poison. We hold
every Democrat, who gives countenance to
the Washington Union, who supports it by
subscribing to it, who admits it into his fam
lily, to be the approver Of its ISLANDERS and
defamation Of The Administration. He is
equally culpable With ito conductor and its
Editors. II is no trenching upon the right
to freedom Of speech, upon the right Of free
dom of opinion, to condemn vehicle Of per-
sonal and political abuse and SANDER, such
as the Union is, as unfit to be admitted into
decent society But, without desiring to go
so far as this, in our condemnation Of that
papers political and personal journalism, we
do not hesitate to repeat, that we regard
every subscriber Of that Journal, as particeps
criminis, as the utterer of its foul ISLANDERS
against our good President and his worthy
cabinet and the people who voted for Gen.
TAYLOR. That there are thousands Of in,
tclligent and reading Democrats, who dis
approve of the conduct Of the Union, we
have no doubt, and, If what we hear be true,
that paper has begun TO realize that disap-
proval in withdrawal Of Democratic sup
port. II that portion Of the Democratic party,
which has confidence in Gen. TAYLOR and
his Administration, would do themselves JUS
tice, they would at once make the Union
feel their displeasure and disapprobation Of
its brutal, assassinating and wicked course
Of conduct. 1t is now the mouth-piece Of
an INSCRIPTIONS political junta, whose sole
object is, to regain power in 1862, at any
price, at any sacrifice ; and as we do not
mean to let them have their own way, if we
can help it, we shall not cease to denounce
the indecent and undigni6ed journalism o.
the Union, as one Of the foul means by
which they hope to carry their point Sc
far as the present Administration is con-
| cerned, it will not be turned to the left OF
right, by thousand such journals as the
Union. Our object in noticing its journal
ism at all, is to draw the attention of the
public mind to its character and arouse oil
good, just and candid men to its condemna-
ton.