The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-09-11
Attack aud Defence.

We are indebted to that capital and independent
journal, the New York Globe, for the following
generous defence against most vrulent and unjustl-
fable attack from its neghbor upon ourselves This
impeachment goes forth to the public in that vio-
lent DISQUALIFICATION paper, the New York Evening
Post-a paper which read out OF Tamnany Hall in
the year 1886. From that moment to this it has been
true to its vocation, passing through all the shades OF
free sosm Van Bnrenism, and all the other isns which
characterize that desperate clique The article appears
as editorial in late New York Evening Post, but it
was evidently concocted in this city by men who dislike
US without reason and prosecute without justice We
are confident that could place finger upon the little
cabal who are concentrating their venom upon man
who is anxious to retire. early day, to the shades OF
private life and such is their maignay that they would
send him forth in poverty after a life OF unexanpled
hardship which he could not have borne without the aid
Of that 5uoyant temperament which gracious Providence
has given 10 hm and such their meanness that they
do not hesitate to fabncae statements which without
the slightest foundation What for example, is meaner
than their trumping up story OF purchase of the
Globe and our obtaining money from Mr.. Cameron
and from Mr. Polk, to neither Of whom the
purchaser indebted for cent OF loan or a cent adj
yanced What could be vier thaa to charge us with
collision with other Offices to get clear OF the contract
syem what more sh imeless than to charge with
keeping back the public work 10 force the same result
when the Printing Committee OF the Senate informed
al very early day that should be unable to
in good season the unprecedented quantity of public
work which was poured in upon US, and when j, is
proved that no effort has been spared expedite the
printing and that work has been executed and in
better STYLE in the very face of runous contract, than
ever has been done by any other printers, under the
auspices too, OF the most favorable terms' What, too,
can be more ridiculous than the fragrant contradiction
of this caba in the editorial OF the Evening Post in say.
ing that the contract taken upoa very ow and dis
advantageous erms' And yet to set still further the seal
upon their and misrepresentation, it is after
wards ntimated in the article that the present
may turn out probably for the contractor We
indignant at such malignity. An impartial observer
would blush for such folly. But we forbear repeating
what we have exposed at length in more formal reply
to the whole fhis iberal attack. We have made a
very few enemies in the OF long life; but
tainy none tina, are vndictive insdious so mean
as this cabal.
We again thank the editor Of the New York Globe for
his voluntary defence Of absent stranger II we had the
pleasure OF his personal acquaintance he might have
spared us the epi,het Of "octogenarian !"
THOMAS RrcHIE-Whils, some Of the southern presses.
opposed the bills pending before Congress- assai
in ferocious and unjusfabe manner and without ex.
cuse the and honored editor OF the Washington
Union, the old federal ansayery organ in this city rivals
their malgnity in similar assaults Mr. Richie has grown
gray In the service ofhe democratic party The ocoxena
editor IL assaed by the free soil organ because he Is
Of the champions Of that party whose dissolution has
been Its chief object for the last three years From the
reign OF terror, under old John Adams, TO this day,
Mr. Richie has stood foremost in every conflict for the
honor Of the country and the integrity OF the party These
assaults from that quarter diminish neither respect
our admiration for the editor of the Union The friend and
counsellor Of Jefferson, and Madison, and Monroe and
Jackson and Polk be injured by the organ Of ans
cism and disunon here The Napoleon Of the democratic
pres and Nesor In democratic councils is invincibly
sntrenched in the affections OF the national democracy"