Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-10
IndependeMt Editors!

There has been some talk Of late about the
recent bestowment by the Secretary of State, of
the patronage of his office upon two newspapers,
one in North Carolina and the other in Tennes-
see, both of which are opposed to the election of
General Scott. Mr.. Webster, indeed unusual
as such things are with him, has published
card in reply to certain structures made by Mr..
Mangum, on the subject, in which he sets forth
the reasons that induced him to select these
papers. His avowed reasons are certainly not
without weight, though we cannot help fearing
that they had less weight with him than had the
political posture of those papers
But new light appears to have lately dawned
npon the mind of the editor of the Nashville pa
per, (Parson Brownlow,) and his contempt for
the "cold- blooded Yankee appears quite as
great as his adherence of the "pumed war
rior." Nor is this his only indication Of change
of sentiment on the subject; for we are credibly
Informed that while pride of opinion restraints
the pious parson from an open avowal of his
change of heart in his Nashville paper, his part
ner in trade has been quietly sent off to another
town to establish, nominally as his own, a new
Scott and Graham paper! We are not in the
habit of telling tales out of school, and would
not divulge this to the parsons injury; but we
take it for granted, in the first place, that the
fact we intimate win not induce Mr.. Webster, at
this late day, to change his mind, too and, in
the second, that it is quite early enough to have
most happy effect on the aert administration!
Respecting the North Carolina editor we have
nothing SO decided to say, seeing that he occu-
piesa most wonderfully elevated though undecided
position In his issue of Tuesday he is most
transcendently toploftical in his editorial lucu-
brations, and if he had not treated Lindey Muir
ray with so much disdain we should regard his
efusion as worthy of one who is {" more than q
mortal, though less than god" He says:
"We have made up our mind to one thing,
which is, that either of the distinguished citizens
in nomination for the Presidency and the Vice
Presidency are gentlemen Of whose acquaintance
any man in the country might be proud, and with
whom the most virtuous might associate with
profit and pleasure. This refers to their personal
characters.
"We have made up our mind to another thing
also, which is not to believe word said against
either of them pending the canvass, though each
charge is accompanied with bushel of certificates,
signed by all sorts of respectable gentlemen
with the rag-tag and bob-tai of the clergy and
Senator Mangum to verify"
We read once in q story-book of philosophical
chambermaid, who, under circumstances of pc
culiar aggravation, resolved to bride her temper,
and make her mind and the feather-beds as COM
Portable as possible; and we have found her
counterpart in the Wilmington editor, who has
made up his mind to enjoy q downy repose upon
the couch of exalted indifference! Happy he in
deed! Unbiased, he sits an unmoved spectator
of the angry storm. Above around, and be-
meath, the elements are convulsed. The sombre
clouds are wearing q most majestic frown the
winds are hoarse with mighty believing, the livid
lightning plays above his pate: yet the Whining.
ton editor curls the cerulean from his fragrant
Havana, cocks his eye at the tempestuous politi-
cal vortex, prints his "By Authority" in big Ro-
man capitals, rattles the dimes in his pockets.
and all the time las the cockney said Of the Dukey
Wellington, when the cannon-balls rolled around
him at vaterlool) "bim not a-caring yum straw !"
The independent position of these Wing papers,
and the salutary notice just taken of them by the
great Expounder, constitute, as Mr.. Pickwick's
stage-coach companion would say, a remarkable
coincidence