The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-03-12

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lures which we made upon the "shabby
and shameful manner in which the print
ing of public documents necessary to the
proper understanding of questions pending
before Congress, and information called
for by both houses, and for which the
country is clamorous, is delayed until the
matters to which they relate are disposed
of, chad been made by any ordinary pa
per of the country, | do not think |
should have felt called upon to make any
defence Of the Opposition majorities of
Congress, or of the Committee on Print
ing. But it comes from the recognised
organ of this Administration. 1t comes
from paper that is known to be in the
confidence, and is understood to speak
the sentiments, of the Administration.
1t may be considered, therefore, as
Z charge coming directly from the Admin
istration against the Opposition major
ties as they are called, in the two
houses of Congress.
We shall not repeat what we have al
ready said of our relations to the Admin
istration but if, according to Mr.. BoR-
LANDS Interpretation Of those relations,
what appears in this paper "may be con-
sidered as coming directly from the Ad-
ministration," the majority in the Senate
is chargeable with what is said in the
Union, as Mr.. FooTE chided the Senator
from Connecticut for alluding to that Jour
nal, not by name, but by implication
merely, in discourteous terms, as guilty
of supplementary conduct towards Gone
Of the official organs of the Senate"
According to Mr. BoRLAND's notions Of
the "control," "authority," ''responsi-
bility," and duties of an organ, he and his
friends are chargeable with the blasphemy
Of ''Heroic Age" and other contributors
to the Union, and the scandalous, malig-
nant, indecent, and libellous accusations
that paper daily Eliminates against the
President and his Cabinet. 1t is the ssof-
fetal organ of the Senate" and Senator
BoRLAND, at least, cannot escape the APP
plication Of his own Interpretation of the
responsibilities of such relationship.
Nay, more; the Senator not only sug-
gests his own responsibility for the foul
aspersions of the President and the men,
bers of his Cabinet, but also for such con-
genial work as the following extract from
the Union of the 9Th instant develops:
These two individuals par Mobile fra
trum TRUMAN SMITH and the Junior
editor of the Repu6hc) are now the real
conductors of the favorite organ of the
present Administration, if our informa-
ton is correct. Wehave been informed
that tteyroom together, or near each other,
and that TRUMAN, the man of all work
for the Cabinet, furnishes the materials, !"
&C., &c.
Senator BoRLAND, by his own construc-
ton of the duties of an organ, is chargeable
with having logged the footsteps of bro
ther Senator, and with having kept up an
espionage upon the private residence of
one of the editors of this paper, to see who
goes in or comes out, and to ascertain who
are his neighbors-whether any and what
the social intercourse between them. This
is noble avocation for a Bitter Ender, a
delightful occupation for representative
of the elite of the distinguished Democrats
of Richmond. We would hardly have be-
lieved any United States Senator would
engage in such a scheme, and are yet in
credulous as to the "sole organs" having
made but one recruit in that distinguished
body. The proof that it has pressed one
into such a service is rather constructive
than positive, circumstantial than direct;
but it follows from the Interpretation which
the Senator from Arkansas gives to rela-
tons less responsible and peremptory than
those which the Union holds to the Senate.
Assuming that the application of the
Senator's construction Of the conduct Of
others is true in respect TO himself, it
must be confessed the Union has not for
feited the confidence of the Senator by
any want of zeal in an ignoble pursuit.
Indeed, if, in his military capacity, the
Senator had organized corps Of spies as
expert and trustworthy as his political
confederates have proved themselves to
be, the disaster of Encarnacion might not
have happened to despoil the Senator of
any chance of securing niche in the tenn.
pie of fame beyond that allotted to the
hero of a surrender.
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