The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-05-17
The WASHINGTON UNION AND THE
DUBUQUE DAILY TRIBUNE.


Fearing tina, press IF business in % large en-
establishment the Washington Union Office.
would prevent the editors Of that Journal from
noticing the labored efforts of our neighbor
against the administration, and believing that he
is to some extern, Influenced by the same ioSd-
uble ambition for notorie,y that most of the fra
ternity are. we have thought it not out Of place
To besto~ upon our neighbor few reflection
in defence Of the Union and throw off i: posi-
BILE, BY one Asrexleaa effort, portion of the
heavy weight heaped upon its unfortunate ed-
tors.
1t will be remembered by those who have
perused James w. Grimes Address to the
Pr ople Of Iowa, that he introduced in said ad-
dress the names Of certain members of Con-
gress aud charged them with having made
certain declarations. These parties living out
of the State and being located at Washington,
| it was entirely comp> tent for the Washington
Union to defend them from any erroneous and
unjust charges contained in the Address of Mr.
W. Grimes, and that too, without suhjec:ing
the Administration to the ridiculous imputation
Of interference IN our State politics. Of what
| consequence 10 it to the administration of this
| great country, administering for some tsoenty.
fUe sWitiiors Of people, to know how the little
state of Iowa. with its two hundred and fifty
thousand people are agoing 10 vote in August
nextI Is it Of that importance to warrant the
! first Executive officer of the nation in attemp-
ting to control the columns of an independent
American Journal! The idea 10 too absurd
to excite snythlng but laughter. But what
did the Washington Union do that it should
have called down upon its head, the virtu"us
indignation and vituperatioa Of the editor OF the
| Tribune, in three successive No'sof his jour-
nal? 1t simply published correspondence
between the lswa Senators, and Senator Butler
of s. e. and the Georgia Delegation, contra
! dieting the statements Of Mr.. Grimes, with
such editorial comments a. the occasion would
naturally draw from IN intelligent and spirited
journalist. This is the ksad a~d front Of the
Unions offending.
Now, we regard il as susceptible Of the clear
est proof. there 10 not a single general PROPOSE
ton laid down in this said Address, but what is
a Misrepresentation. This we think can be
fully sustaine by the record and this we intend
to establish az soon as the proper time arrives for
investigating the merits Of the said Address. To
show clearly and unde niabiy that Me-. Grimes
,,;srso,.-sented Senator Butler and the Georgia
Delesa,;sn, i, is only necessary to refer TO the
article, which we copieu from the Union fe"
days since, where letters will be found i,.:",,
both Senator Butter and the Georgia Delega-
tion. convicting Mr. Grimes Of msrepresenta-
tn Il the language Of Senator Butler. in his
speech on the floor of the Senate, 10 not sue
cep.ible Of the Interpretation. which he, Sena
tor Butler, puts upon it and that this fact leads
to the conclusion that the Georgia Delegation
are not acceptable witnesses. If this position
be correct, we must concede that the editor Of
| the Tribune 10 better interpreter Of the speech
20 of Senstors, than the Senators themselves
1t will be difficult to make majority of readers
believe, that it il right or just, for James w
Grimes, or the editor Of the Tribune, to pu,
words into the mouths of Senators, in order to
justify an attack upon these gentlemen and
upon the administration; and it will be equally
a. difficult to convince intelligent reader, thai
because one man is charged with misrePrescn
| tatioa, that this justifes the presumption that
| others have published falsehoods.
The article in the Tribune Of last evening, 10
decidedly the lamest that we have seen for some