Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-02
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We fnd in the last Christian Advocate long arti-
Gle on the attempt made by the Methodist Publish
ing House to procure portion Of the public printing
which the publishers of this paper were elected to
execute. We do not think the article worth much
notice; and we shall notice only one or two points
Il was expressly declared when subscriptions we're
got up to pay for the house occupied by the MethO
dist Printing Office, that the concern would not be
competitors with any of the Offices here for work,
but would be confined exclusively to the printing of
religious books. Such being the promise, although
the Agents are no doubt free men, and have ga
right to breathe the air." I'VE believe also have
right to use the city soate rss) they have not the
right, gentlemen to underbd other Offices for the
current business of the city, and last of all to at
tempt to get away from other Offices work which has
been contracted for.
The Advocate says:
"Tbe subsequent developments fully show that
the contract had not been made, and that the PUP
lie Printer put in his proposition and gave his oono
for the performance Of the work after Il nao been
suggested TO the Agents that they should put IN pro-
pOsals for the jOb.'
Now we have no doubt that we shall greatly sur
prise our good brother MOFERRrN when we tell him
that he is wholly mistaken in all that he says in the
foregoing extract We made bid for the work.
bond has al ways been required by the law relat-
ing to public printing. We are ready to give such
bond when called on, but have not yet given it. We
we're asked by the committee what the work would
cost and wrote reply, estimating the cost, but say
ing expressly in that letter that claimed the work
in virtue Of election public printers and would
charge all that the law fixing the price of public
printing allowed US. sOmuch for that And every
single assertion and inference Of the Adgoeass
ticIe is as unfOunded as the foregoing
The Advocate says further:
"TheAgents have extended many accommodations
to the secular press in this city, and have never as
We are are aware, given any establishment in Nash
vile cause to complain"
Accommodated indeed! And if you had succeeded
in getting this job from US, you would have called
that accommodating the State we suppose.
Since the advent of know-nOtbingism and Of pO-
litica temperance our business has increased faster
than our capacity to transact it. The increase in
four years cannot be less than two hundred per cent
We have consequently given out to other Offices IN
the city large amount of work; and we have paid
the Methodist Publishing House, within the last two
or three years, nearly fire thousand dollars princ
pally for work. We suppose, from the above para
graph that the Agents charge this to US as one Of
the many accommodation" spoken of. Very
good We think of rebuilding our Office, and e1-
peot soon to possess an establishment too large to
be easily crowded. We shall then be able to /" &C
commOdste" the public by doing all their work,
and folio wing the example of our Methodist breth-
rem, shall expect that public to be very grateful to
US!
We have no disposition to pursue this subject
We knO " good deal more Of the effort to procure
the pr ntng Of the Code and of the peculiar sort of
appeals made to members of the Legislature than
the itor of the Advocate supPOses or perhaps than
he himself knows.
at as the attempt injure signally failed, we
chr Eitsbly withhold further comment, unless they
sh all become necessary hereafter. We think we
Avstwice erred towards the Advocate in failing tor
Duke in strong enough TERMS interference in purely,
political matters. We may, perhaps, have thus given
that establishment an idea that it could take still
further liberties. However that may be, we can at
least say, that since the defeat of Col ENTRY as
the temperance candidate for Governor, and the ez-
tinotiOn of Know Nothingism, we are not afraid Of
being branded either as infdels or Catholics for
defending our bread and butter. That much we feel
called upon to say, while expressing the confident
hope, that the action of the Methodist Publishing
House in this case, was not the wellcOnsidered act
of the leading men of the Concern and that it will
not be repeated.