Daily American organ., 1856-04-05
Ingratitude.

poraries, meet with ungrateful returns. We
however, know so well how common it is for
kindly meant advice, to be most unkindly re-
ceived, never permit ourself to be seriously
disturbed by such conduct On the contrary,
we usually persevere in works of charity and
kindness to our neighbors, amid even reviings
and abuse. The motive which dictated our
leading article in Thursdays daily issue, on
the subject of Lepying Black Mail, was SO OBJ
viously generous towards contemporary, and
the article itself was SO well calculated to ex-
cite all the noble impulses of an honorable edi-
tor, we confess that we expected it would be
received in thankful spirit by that journal,
for whose benefit it was intended. We spoke
ofthe high responsibilities of public Journals, -
of the influence they WELD in the formation OF
public opinion, and of the importance to those
journals of preserving the good opinions of the
public. We alluded to the serious, and to our
mind, improbable charges made against one of
our contemporaries in this city.
We called upon that contemporary, in JUS
tice to the press Of Washington city, as well as
in justice to himself to demand proof of the
charges, or their prompt retractiOn We pre-
sented the charges in the very words of their
author, in order that the public might see the
enormity Of the outrage which correspond
ent of New York press had committed upon
our contemporary! We tried to tighten the
afdiction of our neighbor, (until he could him
self vindicate his character from the imputed
crimes,) by suggesting that we were obliged to
doubt the truth of the imputations. What
more could we do, to manifest our earnest de-
sire that he should put his adversary to the
blushS "a friend in need is friend indeed"
Our neighbor needed the advice which we gave
him, and hence it was cheerfully rendered.
Now, look at the matter calmly and dispassion-
ately-that is, if you can do it dispassionately.
Our contemporary is the acknowledged mouth
piece of the (kitchen) cabinet Of Frank Pierce
late of New Hampshire
He is charged, in the public papers, with
having proposed to the head of an English
Steam Navigation Company, that he would
help said English company to break down an
american company, if he would pay him well
for It'll But this proposition we don't consider
so very Inconsistent (though rather grasping)
in our neighbor, because it was his political
duty to help foreigners to break down Ameri-
cansl The error he committed solely consisted
in demanding to be t,oice paid for this service,
first by the administration in the immense ad-
vertising furnished by the various depart
nfents, and secondly out of the purse of the
foreign company
But he was also charged with endeavoring
to get large fee from the creditors of Texas,
in consideration of aiding in the passage of the
Texas creditors bill, and threatening to oppose
it if not thus paid. Now we do think that,
as former citizen of Texas, who took an
active part in the Indian wars near Mdtagor-
dd, Gan interesting account of which we have
been permitted to read, but which is of no pub
lie concern,) our neighbor should not have
threatened to oppose measure in which the
people and creditors of Texas felt SO deep an
interest
But again, he was charged with offering to
sell himself and eight members Of Congress
for ten thousand dollars, and if he could not
get that sum, he threatened to defeat the French
Spoliation Claims bill Well, as we have an
interest in one of those claims, we must ex-
press our regret that our neighbor was not
purchased, for soho knotos but that the Qitch-
cognised mouth-piece, persuaded Frank Pierce
of New Hampshire to ueto that bill! We are
by no means sure that Cabinet-proper inves-
tigation may not yet cause rich developments
Now, when we counselled our neighbor to
demand the proofs Of these charges, or re-
traction of them ~by his accuser, it is manifest
that he erred in not following our advice, be-
cause
lst 1t is morally certain they ought not to
be true.
2d. If true, ii is reasonably certain that
little Matagorda bluster would have frightened
away his ssccuser,-the charges would have fall
On to the ground, and our neighbor would have
been hero of ttoo ,oarst
But how is it now2 Why, he tacitly ad-
mits the charges, and seeks to exculpate him.
self by saying that the proprictors of the
american Organ offered to sell out their es-
tablishment to the present printer of the
House Of Representatives, with all the indu-
ence of said proprietors, for $4,000
We are pleased that our neighbor has repub-
lished his article of 10th February last, which
we had never seen before, as it first appeared
two days after we left home for Philadelphia,
where we remained eight or ten days. Indeed
had we been at home, it is rather improbable
we should have read his journal, as we have no
time to read works of fiction" We'll, if what
is alleged in his article were so, il may have been