The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-03-17

ments of some three Presidential campaigns,
on the same side with our ancient and faithful
ally of the Courier and Enquirer. We have
with him been on the winning side in two Of
them, and under circumstances In which we
have enjoyed every opportunity, II we had so
desired, to present oursef in favorable light
to the appointing power. Ii would have been
no very great presumption if we had aspired
to some modest recognition, not Of our deserts,
but of our desires and our efforts to be of ser
vice to the WHIG cause. We take no credit
to ourself, however, not only that there Is no
Der Of any WING administration, and no Wing
to whom we have ever intimated, directly or
indirectly, that it would be acceptable to us to
be appointed TO any oflice-foreign or domes-
tic. Our contemporary must pardon us, there
fore, if we claim, that in this regard at least,
our political course has been as dsinterested as
his own. We have said that we take no credit
for the fact we have stated. We will add that
we do not mean by this statement to intimate
that we have entered into any selfdenying
ordinance, for it is only by making no pledges
in this behalf that we can be certain we shall
never break them We speak for the past and
the present, and give no bonds for the future.
Again, as to pecuniary inducements-for we
apprehend that the inuendoes of the Courier
and Enquirer must apply either to honors or
emoluments. The Republic was started some
three years ago as an independent Wing jour
nal by proprietors who designed to sustain it
through at least one term of WING Admins
tration. They knew that it must rely for its
support on the general favor of the Wing party;
for they knew perfectly well, what the Courier
and Enquirer might have learned on inquiry, that
the work of the several Executive Departments
and of Congress is regulated not by the Pre-
sIDENT but by law, and is executed not by
selected contractors but by the lo,cest bidders.
These proprietors are not and never have been
under the slightest pecuniary obligation to the
WING Administration or any member of it, TO
the Wing members or any Wing member of
Congress, or to any individual inside or outside
of the Government, by way of loan or dona-
ton, or in any other way saving in the ord-
nary routine of individual business, and in pur-
suance Of the competition contemplated by law.
We owe nothing, therefore, to any Wing Ad-
minstration, or TO the Wing members of Con-
gress, beyond the satisfaction that we derive
from giving them both the advantage-f it be
one-of having a journal at the seat of Govern
ment which sustains the Wing cause, according
to its convictions of public duty, and has sustain
ed WING administration on principles, and in a
line of policy which are approved, In our hum
BILE judgment, by very large majority of the
American people. Further than this, we can
assure the Courier and Enquirer that there
has been no time during its existence when it
would not have been for the pecuniary advan-
tage Of the proprietors of the Republic to have
relieved themselves from the solcitude and
care of conducting it. These are the relations
of entire independence in which the Republic
stands to the Administration and the 'rest of
mankind;' and we assure our friends and our
enemies that we are quite able to remain in
Just that position during the termf for which we
have entered the service, and as much longer
as may please our friends and be agreeable
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