Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-03-19
THE PUBLISHING HOUSE.

We print in this paperR communication from
Messrs. Stevenson & Owen. We do not owe lis
publication them act Of justice for the state
ments Of our correspondent Of yesterday morning
were true. We print it that there may be no com
plant that both sides are not heard in these columns
Without waiting for our correspondent to make
such replyjO the communication, controverting his
statements as he is competent to do, we say
1. That if the establishment Of the Methodist
Publishing House in Nashville was ga favor con-
ferred on Nashville" about which there are differ
enees Of opinion, then let Nashville pay the debt
We don't choose to see it paid by the undermining
Of US in our business and the gouging of out Of
an honest contract.
?. 1t isus spite Of the denial Of the Agents, that
they have memorialized the Legislature give them
q portion Of the public printing which We we're
elected to do. And before the memorial was sent
in, members had been bored for months by members
Of the Concern for this job. Such members will
laugh at the statement Of the Agents that they were
"solicited," Sc The idea that the Code is not
public printing, which the Agents base justif-
cation Of their course is too ridiculous for notice
3. If the Legislature wish the Code stereOtyped,
and the Agents viii do the work as cheaply and as
eXpediGously as it can be done elsewhere, we shall
give them the job. But if there to be omissions
from and additions to the body Of the work in fu-
ture editions, as will certainly be the case, then
every man who knows any thing Of the printing bu-
siness knows that the stereotyping Of the work is
q useless expense.
a. The Agents says that they viii do the work
several thousand dollars less than our contract We
say, in the first place. that this is not true; they
uuderbid our contract less than six hundred dollars,
g. they well know In the second place, if it were
true it is conduct too gross to be properly character
lied here for one business man to step in between
contractor and his employer, and try to obtain ajob
by undertaking; and in the third place, it is an
insult to the Legislature to ask 1t to break faith with
us and subject US to loss upon the argument that
any number CT thousands might thus be saved.
In conclusion, we remark, that, regarding the
work as ours by election we have already invested
three-fOurths of all we shall make on the job in new
materials on which to execute it. and have ordered
paper Of the sample shown US by the Committee
We have not the slightest aPpresenhiOn that the Leg
islature will subject US to he heavy loss which We
should sustain were this ungenerOus effort Of the
Agents to succeed.
AS 70 "AaI Lnese A60N'9 VI o 0o--
ment, hungering for the feshPots Of political jour
nalsm-not content with the profits of the business
which they set themselves up to do, but watching
and begging for the political patronage of the State
as to what these Agents say they viii show the PEG
pie Of Tennessee, we have simply to say, that we
shall protect our rights against the avaricious and
grasping meanuess Of all men, no matter what the
color Of the coats they wear, and that we shall hail
with joy fair excuse for exposing the whole mean
ness Of the attempt beg from the Legislature, work
winch we were elected and are prepared to perform.