The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-10-23
The National intelligencer.

Inc NdtlOudl AutChAbChCCA.
In its leading article Of yesterday designed TO fasen on
this journal the odium of Flbusierism." the National
lmisgsner goes back thirty years. 10 the war OF 1872
to prove that it patriotic We admit that du.
ring that war. and after seen 10 be inevitable the
IneKigencer did brand and stgmatze that very moral
trsa,on" which itself exemphed and defended in the
subsequent with Mexico
We do not grudge the Iateligencer the complacency
with which digs upand parades before the public the
fossil remains Of he patriotic and American sentiment
which, during career of near fifty years, and through
all our controversies with foreign powers, that journal
has ever displayed But challenge the Intsiigeneer
to come down TO the period within the present public
memory, and point out one single case in which 1.-THE
central organ OF great parlyhas failed in any n,ena
onal question: 10 take the side and TO sustain the agu
ment of foreign governments against the United States
The French-indemnity question, the right OF search
question, the Texas question: the Northeastern boundary
question, the Oregon question, and the Mexican war form
series OF instances to the point In every OF these
controversies the National Heligsnesr stood up against
the claim and OF its country, and made itself
the foremost champion OF foreign fraud and aggression
And now, what do these facts prove Do they prove
that in International controversy the United States repre-
ting alone in the world The civilization and the voice
popular power, have always been in the wrong. and
foreign monarches and despotisms have aoays been
the right against us II his be not SO, then af
firm that the National ntegsnesr stands convicted AT the
bar Of public judgment OF the gravest crime which pub
lie journal commit-the crime OF deep seated, ha-
bi,ual. neradicabe hostility the and the interests
of its country.
In this matter we will deal in no vague generalles
EYn shali aka nnrvr In tha
spring Of 1916 the Mexican war broke out The cry
rang through the land that American blood had been
shed on American soil" By the authority and at the in
Of Congress- President Polk called on the patriot.
ism OF The country defend The country 10 avenge the
outrage and 10 the little band which, menaced by
6veod odds and YET undaunied stood its ground on the
Rio Grande. And at that moment OF public agony, when
war with all its pers and horrors actually upon us
the National Intgener, at the head OF what
in the wing press and the wing party, did not hesitate
TO strive day after day 10 quell the rising heart Of
the country, to denounce its cause and parayze ia
government by every article OF sophsry which could dis
courage delay the rush Of citizen sodiery to their
arms This is the simple fact The Inteiiigeneer can
hardly have forgotten H. the terms in which this jour
nal then denounced 10 the country And for such
fact whs, is the Infeigenes Justification Is il party
spirtl Such parssnship is treason TO every patriotic
impulse and obligation!
And what have within the last four years
We have bad wars; but we have had in our foreign
relations a series OF plumbers and humiIiaons more
grievous 10 be borne than itself. We have had the
Clayton Bulwer treaty and the handed per6dies and
ndgnles perpeiraied under its sanction We have had the
miserable Cuban proclamation wrestling from misguided
American citizens their treaty guaranteed rights OF trial
and giving them in advance as pirates not only TO
the awess cruelty OF Spain but the ruthless violence
OF whatsoever British French cruiser might seize and
hang them up at the yard.arms on their way 10 Cuba
We have bad such cruisers avowedy under the solo
sanction OF that proclamation, ordered 10 keep watch and
ward coasts, execute laws OF neura lily
And ell Of this the National Inleigtncsr has justified APP
proved, and appauded II has had no word OF reproof
for our administration and syllable OF American
defiance or protes, for The foreigner
On the contrary, from the first, the National TntRi.
gsner has sought TO fasten upon the democratic party
and press, and upon this journal in particular, the
charge-repeated in its issue Of yesierday-of giving
counenanoe, encouragement and approval 10 lawless al
tempts upon Cuba The charge is utterly and scanda.
lously false From the first, have stood up for and
invoked the law, and the whole law. OF the case
minstrson for the insufcency and imbeciliy Of il
precautions 10 the law and TO prevent the expe
dion With at least equal emphasis we denounced the
blind violence with which the administration seeking tc
excuse its fret failure, rushed TO the opposite extreme
and threw away whatsoever Of protection, as agains
Spanish awessness foreign interference, the Law
Of nations or the stpulaions Of treaty threw aroun,
the misguided expeditonisis, whether on the higl
seas or in their Cuban dungeons In the whole cas-
we invoked the execution OF the law, 10 prevent {
punish and hnaly to protect against illegal interference
and cruelty This has been from the first our policy
and because we have chosen to remember American rgh
as well a. American duties the National Iafeigencer
subservsnce 10 foreign despotism, denounces the Urio
asa "fitpstsr r We accept as an honor the denunc'
ton which always launched against the defenders
the eause OF country, and which in its latest erhb
ton was not restrained by partisan sfiliaion fro