Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-02-21
Battle Of the Press.

4 There is a desperate battle now waging between
the Washington city Press. The war is SO hot that
it has communicated some of its heat to grave Sena-
tors and spicy members Of Congress- The beliger-
ants are the Southern Press the Inteiqncgr and the
Unjoa. 1t all sprung of ''who entitled to the
public printing It's job, and as all jobs of plumber
are now 'let OUT, the point is, to whom shall it be
let" But to show how the tide of war tends re-
mark that the law specifies that the paper having the
largest permanent subscription shall be entitled
to certain printing. The Tntelligeacer and the South
ern Press, prove that they entitled to it. But the
heads of Mr. FilImore's cabinet, give the work the
Understanding the Southern Press. The propri-
etor of the Press appeals to Mr.. Attorney General
Crttenden the law officer Of the Government, for his
construction of the law He decides that the Press
is entitled to the work--legally So and that if the
heads of the Departments discharge their duty according
to lar, that they will give their work that paper
This decision of the law officer of the Government was
laid before of the heads Of of the Depart
ments and he decided that the work should be CIV
the Southern Press, because that was Sectional
paper. That is, paper that defends the South, and
the Constitution, is entitled to no countenance from
this administration. Heads of departments violate
the law with impunity soft is but degrade the South
The President cannot interfere-no, not he A slave
owneris shot down-Prosecue the murderers says the
President for Treason, and they will be set at liberty
Violate the law-what harm is it it is only to de-
grade the South and who defends the South, or who
cares for her
The Union newspaper got the printing, though not
entitled to it by law
The Union newspaper is candidate for more work
1t is really noteworthy to mention the character of
the coalition formed to select the propretors of that
paper, Donelson and Armstrong Men are said to be
known by the company they keep, and if Donelson and
Truman Smith raeraiae, there needs no explana-
ton to show Donelson's procliyities He is an old
Federalist, Truman Smith is an aboitonist and if
any one can tell US, how it happens that New Eng
land abolition whig and Southern democrat aliates
we should like to be made to comprehend it. On the
principle that the federal treasury is be pundered,
or the South delrauded, one would mistake the
character ofthe coalition named Truman Smith, a
New England freesoil whg and Andrea .Jactson DON
elson divide truckle bed between them crawl I'M
der the same blanket Think oft! Who is IS be
cheated in this game
Note that Donelson claims to be the organ of the
National Democracy. He is the organ of Foote and
Cobb, Cass and Clemens, Rantou, and that sweet
scented specimen of Massachusetts, democracy, and
the chairman fthe National Democratic Committee,
b. +. Haett Truman Smith, as all our readers are
aware, of the wing executive committee loca-
ted at ashington city in 1913, to distribute wing
documents during the then pending Presidential can
vasshe denies his faith and he has been often
charged with having done great deal of dirty work
for his party. Has Donelson employed him for that
purpose, Or has he proposed terms Donelson and
been accepted Some one to be swindled, or such
coalition could never have happened