Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-05-10
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
The PniIadsiphin PennsyIvanlan.


published on Friday last, says:
There is little sheet in this city.claiming to
be neutral but really one of the most libellous
papers in the country. Its fulsone laudations of
General Scott and dirty attacks upon prominent
Democrats, have long since excited the disgust
of decent men of all parties. Ii is the hired or
gan of few hair Drained clerks, who transcribe
the productions Of their superiors, and father
malignant hes in order to get treasury pap
The Telegraph has no Influence; and were it not
for the, pay it gets for publishing falsehoods it
would long since have been in its grave" NJ ....
The above quotation constitutes the first in
stance in which such language as is therein used
has ever found its way into our columns ro.. N.
Our paper has never been neutral. 1t has
| claimed to be independent, and has verified its
claim. 1t is now ardent in its advocacy Of Cen
eral Scott, having dedicated itself most willingly
to this agreeable duty in the hour in which the
aid of the true friends of that llustrious citizen
were needed We have never disowned or de-
sired to conceal this the cherished purpose Of our
heart. s III ~.
| No attack upon any Democrat has sper been
made through oar columns. s .les sa
The Telegraph is not hired organ 1t has
never received the gift or the promise of dollar,
nor the loan of a dollar from any source
other than the ordinary channels of business ac-
commodation nor has any man in any public
office ever, by endorsement or otherwise, become
responsible for one dollar on its account.
| Neither has it, since the present editor assumed
control Of it, ION the 28th of january last, ever
published a line on any political subject from the
pen of any person in Office nor has matter to
the extent of tsco columns in Gu appeared in it
editorially from any other source sources than
| the pen of its avowed and only editor.
! We have been q reader of the Pennsylvania
during the greater portion of the last twenty
years; and, although We have never concu4red
in its political sentiments until the present editor
assumed its control we always read it with =
cheerful zest. 1t is to us pleasant to dis
course with frank and open adversary, however
severe, who stoops not to personal vituperation,
to talsehood, and the promptings of the meanest
malignanty to crafty an enyious, deprayed and
grovelling nature. We regret the present mani
fest decadence of the Pennsylvania and al
though it is evidently impotent as an en-
gine hostile to the Whig party, we should
still be gratifed to see the great Democratic
party of Philadelphia strengthening their pow
ers by the publication of its columns, or the
adoption of an advocate with whom one
may contend without tho humiliating conscious
ness that, even though he may prove the victor,
the odor Of his antagonist, like that of certain
nameless little animal, may long remain upon him
nauseous and disgusting perfume. Our frs
conflict with it, however, shall he our last. Its
SANDERS are heneeforth licensed. We have only
TO ask, we value the good opinion of men, that
it may never praise us.
Should any of our Democratic friends see
proper to endorse the extract we have above
quoted from the Pennsylvania, we submit to
them the following from the same letter:
1.-THE DEMOCRACY OF THE DISTRICT
! STAND FIRM, and ready to support the nomi-
nee of the Baltimore Convention. The pride of
| Pennsylvania (Mr. Buchananl is great favorte
| here, and his nomination will be most happily
received by the Democratic party in the District
! if he should be selected by the National Dem
ocratic Convention. POLITICS ARE RUNNING
HIGH HERE. EVEN IN THIS GIBRALTAR
OF WHIGERY, THE DEMOCRACY ARE GIRD-
ING on THEIR ARMOR, AND WILL FIGHT
| CALAMITY IN THE MUNICIPAL ELEC-
TION, WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE N JUNE.
| THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE A NOMINA.
TIoN FOR MAYOR, MR.. JOHN W. MAURY
BEING THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE. II
the Fifth Ward, JOHN MULLOY, esq, and il
the Third Ward, COL BARRETT arc the DEM
OCRATIC CANDIDATES for the Board Of Com
mon Council. John McNeal Latham, nephew Of
4 the distinguished banker Of the firm OF Messrs
Selden Il Co., is the DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
for the Board of Aldermen in the third. Noinna.
tions will be made in all the wards for both
branches Of the Council WE EXPECT THAT
A MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
! NEXT COUNCIL WILL BE DEMOCRATS"