The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-24

We find in the National Inteigencer of yesterday in
article commenting upon our late article in the Union,
prefacng the late message Of General Taylor the follow
ing paragraph:
"The Union takes exception, also however, to the rec
omnepdation leave the Territory (no included in the
State Of Caornia) under its existing until the
people who inhab il shall be disposed form consiiiu
ton Of sefgovenment and takes that exception the
ground that this will satisfy the PEG.
pie Of the North yet will quiet the people of tho
South adding that before that day comes will,
in all probability happen which will shake this wnon to
its centre What the Union by This dark allusion
Are to understand by il that Tho Unon newspaper is
prvy II not partyto conspiracy against THE UNION
STATES? What else but such knowledge, with
withou, participation in it. could have prompted
mark such this which bevewed only in Of two
lights either empty brag, or as an andacious
threatl Let the Union speak oGty II il be engaged in,
lending its aid and countenance any such culpabe
design high time that it should show its hand, that
and its readers may what game Ii is that IL Is play
ing II be engaged in such conspiracy, let the
Union discaim participation prlvty in any thing OF
the and will believe Its disclaimer, and hold 1t
gutess of any offence than that of playing upon the
cedulity of its readers by conjurng up this phantom Of
danger which exists only in its dsordeed magina-
ton"
This paragraph, which we have copied from the In.
teigeneer, contains malignant, mean, and false in
situation. that we piyy, if not party, to con-
spiracy against the union Of the States" Now, do
not hesitate to say that the writer Of the article in the
Inellgencer whether one of its editors contributor
its columns in their name, i0as conscious of false
hood, if not Of its magnancy and meanness, when he
penned the paragraph which we have above quoted.
When brethren Of the press pepetre such baseness
upon us, conceive that courtesy requires that
should hesitate 10 characterize il as it deserves
The editors Of the National Tntaigeneer, we repeat
knew that the nsinuation which they have thus thrown
out against false. when they concluded demean
themselves much as to make it. They knew that we
referred facts, causes, and circumstances, within the
knowledge Of every one, and that remark in
ference from those facts causes, and circumstances Do
they not believe that the continued agitation Of the slave
ry question will shake this Union to its centrei We
have doubt they believe and yet they have the
malgn and meanness to falsely nsnuate that for
pressing such belief, are privy, il not party, to
a conspiracy against the union Of the States"
Since we have occupied the position Of an opponent oil
the measures and policy Of the present administration the
Union and its editors have been the objects of almost
ceaseess abuse, scurlity and Misrepresentation by the
federal press. But. while many of the attacks which
have been made upon have been coarse and vupea-
tive in the extreme, remember covert steal
thy and assassin like, as that which contained in the
paragraph which we have quoted above from the Nation
al Intelligenor Af