The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-11


intend to enforce it, it is due to us and to the world
that the claim should be disavowed.
THE NINTH COMMANDMENT IN NEW YORK
~ o, rutls sacrd, que de msuir apropos.
The Tribune and the Times of New York are run
ming over with vrtuous indignation against the Sec
rotary Of War and the collector Of New York In
the ferocty and venom of their attacks they exceed
all bounds of moderation. II they were simply to
undertake to make these gentlemen out. to BIO very
bad men, they would probably succeed in producing
an impression upon the public to their prejudice;
but when they e1aggerate their accusations and
deavor to depict them monsters in human shape,
they quite overdo their task of defamation 'they
over-act the Termagant." They have quite forgot
the instructions Of Hamlet to the players:
80! it oHends me 10 the SOUL to hear robustious
pcriwig pated fellow tear passion into tattsr to very
rags, split the Of the groundngs would have
such fellow whipped for oe doing Termagant 1t out
In accusing the distinguished objects of their def
amaton, whom we have named, of all the crimes in
the Decalogue, they violate than the injunction
of Hamlet they make war upon the Ninth Command
ment. The publication of the Tribune is psrpet
ual campaign against tho Ninth article in the Deca
ogue and the conduct of that old sinner is not
traordinary but that the Times should enter the
lists with the Tribune against the truth is subject
of some surprise.
What is it that prompts these malicious assaults
Of tho Tribune and Times upon honorable menf 1t
is we'll known that the assault upon Mr.. Schell orr
gnated in the old Hard and Soft feud of New York
q venal quarrel among democrats, which "peces it.
self OUT on the occurrence of every new contest
for the patronage of the federal government but
why should these outside journals take such &C
tive part in this internecne feud Of tho democracy
1t is not in the of virtue for both these jour-
pure shrine of that goddess is it for purposes
Of wanton mischief is it from the force of habtua
assault upon the ninth commandment is it for hire
or what is it for for neither journal can believe
it's own accusations.
The Times got hold of the evidence of the Will
lett's Point committee before tho members even of
the committee could obtainit Did the Times cor
rupt the official custodian of that record for price
and are it's endeavors to create popular ''sensa
sgned get back in dollars and cents its bride to
the official prostitute
The evidence it publishes is garbled; words are
put into the mouths of witnesses that they never
uttered dates forged and material erasures are
made. Is the Times the forger is the Times tho
mutilator of the records IL the Times the dupe Of
an official criminal does the Times do these
things in the name Of public virtue?
The Times is peculiarly vindictive against Mr..
Aug. Schel Does the Times know that every mem
Der of the aforesaid committee of investigation has
cxonerated Mr. Schel from the imputations it seeks
to fix upon himr The verdcts of four of those gem
tlemsn arc recorded in tho proceedings of Congress.
Is the Times ignorant of the verdict of the fifth
While the clerk of tho committee, and creature of
the chairman, was inditing an anonymous letter to
the Senate of the United States assailing Mr. Schell
in the same spirit in which the Times assails
him and while the chairman of the committee
port with that of his clerk, tthe Times, we
suppose, knows the clerk) does the Times know
that the chairman stating to the committee that
there was nothing to mplicate Mr. Schell in tho
charge the Times prefers against him 2 Somebody
forged the record Of the committee by erasng this
declaration of the chairman from the printed evil
dence How was it with the copy obtained in adj
vance by the Timesf Was that forged. too, and
with the Timess seiesltU7 How was this thing
The clerk we are informed, denied that he wrote
the anonymous letter to tho Senate but the docu-
ment was proved to be his own handwriting by his
own confession, Thus the chairman and his clerk
are both convicted Of offence against the 9Th com
mandment, tho same against which the Tribune and
the Times are waging so vigorous campaign. Is
that the secret of their intimacy with the chairman
and his clerk-par mobile Jratrum7
! This chairman ia an agent Of the House of Repre-