Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1854-01-11
rTbe following extracts from Demo

| 70 The following extracts from Demo
cratic papers, will give some fair. Lea fthe
castigations administered to the Vashing-
ton Union by presses of its own party
The Richmond Examiner Of December Goth,
says
| The WASHINGTON sUMoN' AND THE SES-
ATE OF THE UNITED STATEs.--The decree
has gone forth from the Washington Union,
that portion Of the United States senators,
belonging to the democratic party, are to be
gibbeted for their eontumacy and want of
fealty to democracy. No issue Of that pa
per, we believe, since the election of MIR.
Tucker, has failed TO holdIup the tabooed sem
ators to public censure and democratic rep
rehension.
We will not argue that no opposition to
the Democratic party, or the Democratic
President was evinced by the Democratic
Senator's in voting against the Union for pub
lie printer. 1t may not be very fattering to
the Onions pride, but still the truth is, a
great many people, democratic people, do not
consider that newspaper to be either the dem
ocratic party or the administration. And a
great number of amiable citizens can under
stand how wise democratic Senators might
have high opinion of the President, and
still not have any particularly exalted esteem
for the Union newspaper. Sometimes there
are found swimming together, in the same
current, other things besides apples. TIE
lovers of good fruit surely should be allowed
the privilege of selection.
The South Side Democrat SAYS There is
way of stating a proposition plumply and
directly, leaving nothing to be inferred from
inuendo ; there is another way, by which
frequently insidious enemies create the inn
preston they desire, by cushioning the thorn
with conditional declarations and oily exple-
tives. The former method is the more man
ly, frank, open, and ingenuous-the latter,
the more subtle, sly, cunning, and cowardly.
The Union and its correspondent have cho-
sen to adopt the latter course, and have as
serted by implication what they dared not
assert in direct and unequlvocal terms. To
those who are familiar with the wailing and
ranting of The Washington Union for the last
ten days, we need assign no reason for its
covert assault on the Virginia delegation.
To those who have been deprived of this rich
privilege, the explanation can be conveyed
in four or five little words, viz its failure
to get the Senate printing. Hinc iHe ZACH
rymG Hence the consuming wrath which
it has heaped upon every democrat who hap
pened not to have voted for its proprietor as
printer. Hence this sneaking thurst at the
Democratic Senators from Virginia, whose
names arc not counted ON its list.
The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat says
Two of the democratic papers at, Washington
seem very much excited about the election
of Tucker as printer for the Senate. They
charge upon what they call a combination
hostile to the administration, with the fero-
city of partisans. The give out that there is
such combination formed, and designate it
new party.
We have looked over the democratic part
of this combination, as it is called, and it oc-
ours to us, that war upon such men in the
democratic party won't pay expenses and
we suggest to the organs, one and all, that
discretion, if not the better part, is nevcrthe-
less very good part of valor.