The republic., 1851-12-15
The .Non-combotsn,, Globe.

The NOn-C Combatant" Globe.
The Globe Of Saturday contains an article Of
three columns under the signature Of Mr.. JOHN
G. RWEs, commenting on paragraph in the
Republic of the day previous.
Mr.. RIvEs alleges that the paragraph in
question was prompted by some other motive
than appears on its face, and devotes much of
his commentary to an alleged connexion be-
tween Mr.. JACOB GIDEON and the office of
the Republic. With all this we have nothing
to do. We are not aware that we have ex-
changed word with Mr.. GIDEON on this sub
ject since the printing of Congress was awarded
10 Mr.. HAuLroN. The Republic is printed
in its own office, and not in that of Mr..
GIDEON This fact relieves us from the ne
cessity Of replying to the greater portion
Of Mr.. RIvEs's article though we must
say, in passing, that the imputatlon on Mr..
GIDEON Of having put in ''sham" bid. is, in
our belief, altogether unjust and unjusilhable.
We may also add, that if Mr. RIvEs has in
volved himself in advances To the amount of
$4,000 for the sake of securing Sl4 900 worth
of paper, he must have means to sport with
large enough to accredit the reports of the
"scandalous fortunes" attributed to him and
his partner from Democratic patronage.
As for Mr.. RIvEs's reputation of Mr.. BLAIR,
and his innocence of all 'intermeddling" in
/ politics, we have only to say that the proprie-
tor % jackson Hall" pledged to the regular
nominee of the Democratic party-and the
! joint conductor, for many years, of the most
ruthless and profgate partisan newspaper that
ever disgraced civillzation-is the last person
to play the part of the ''poor lamb" and to
whine about ''wanton assaults contained in a
harmless newspaper paragraph
AS for the Census, we do not know whether
Mr.. GIDEON will claim,it under the fourth class
of the contract printing; but we have too much
confidence in his integrity and good sense to
believe that he will claim it under any branch
the present contractor. The pretence that it
comes within any class of the contract is a
shallow and obvious absurdity.
In The absence of any disposition of this
printing by law, it is of course within the
power of Congress to dispose of it as they may
see fit. The Census act of 1889 provided that
when the returns were complete the Secreta-
ry of State should order ''the printers of Con
gress to print" them for the use of Congress.
The supplementary act OF September |, lo4l,
authorized the Secretary of State to cause to be
printed twenty thousand copies of the Compen-
dium or Abridgement of the Census. Mr..
WEBSTER, then Secretary of State, contracted
with Mr.. THOMAS ALLEN to execute the work.
There was dispute between Mr.. ALLEN and
Messrs. BLAIR & RvEs to their respective
rights in the premises, growing out OF the spe-
cial laws on the subject; and we believe that
the last t-named gentlemen largely augmented
their already .'scandalous fortunes" by the ex-
ecution of the work.
As to the publication of the present Census,
Congress has as yet made no provision. la the
law Of May %. 1850, providing for the execu
ton of the preliminary printing, which it en-
trusted to the Census Board, it was specially
provided that the "other printing hereafter to
be executed" shall be executed ''Gs Congress
shall direct" Congress has as yet given no
direction in the premises; and the pretence
that the Secretary of the Senate and the
Clerk of the House had any authority to adver
tse for it as the ordinary printing of Congress,
in view of this special reservation by Congress
Of the power to give directions in regard to it,
is simply ridiculous Whether Mr.. GIDEON
may claim it under the fourth class, or Mr.
BLAIR under the fifth class, or the contractors
for the printing Of the Interior Department may
claim it as printing belonging to the Census
Bureau-the last by far the most reasonable
claim of the three-we apprehend that Con
gress will exercise their reserved right to make
such disposition of tas they may see fit.
We commisera.e our poor, innocent, non
combatant, and sympathize deeply with the
s'hard treatment" which he received from Mr..
PoLK's administration. Merits like his can
not be too highly appreciated. Services like
his cannot be too literally remunerated
1t is hard that his fidelity to Mr.. VAN BUREN
should not secure to him and his amiable part
ner ife-estate in the public printing; but we
are inclined to believe that this result will
hardly be brought about until the old Globe
clique are reinstated in power by the -estab-
lishment OF the VAN buren, dynasty.