The Portland daily press., 1862-10-31

both so perfectly assimilated in the atmosphere
Of doubtful loyalty
''wP social nose whyles snuffsd and snowkit
Whyles mice and moudiewoits thoy howkit;
Whyles scour'd ava in lang excursion,
An worry d ither in diversion;
Until wi damn weary grown,
Upon knowe they sat them down,
And there began long digression,
About the
DHty Press, which quietly pursuing its steady
onward course, seems to haunt both of those
dainty hounds, and to put them as much out
of breath as Is an ordinary whelp when
mischievous boy ties tin kittle to his caudal
appendage.
But, seriously, what has the Press done that
1t should be set upon Jointly by the hapers re-
ferred to, they having, like Herod and PLATE,
made friends to fight common enemy; and,
when fairly considered, what does their attack
prove or indicator To answer these questions
shall be the object of the balance of this ar
ticle.
The Argus, in long article on the state
of the army" after flourish of the old abuse
of Gen. Mcclellan by the Press in admitting
into its columns communication from one of
the purest minded gentlemen in our city, char
ges us with Jtaroring disunion, because we
have allowed gentleman of unimpeachable
integrity, to tell in our columns, what he sop
and heard during weeks visit to the army of
the Potomac. That paper, true to its Instincts,
has the inefiable meanness to insinuate that
the communication referred to is coinage
of the editor of the Press" which shows
plainly what the writer's standard of newspa-
per morality is, for we venture the remark
that man who has not been guilty of coin
ing falsehoods himself, and palming them off
in the form of communications, thus to escape
personal responsibility by skulking behind
fictitious name, would never make such an
insinuation against any responsible paper.
He kno,cs hotc that kind of ,rork is done.
The Argus charges us with abusing Gen.
Mcclellan, because we have dared admit that
an honest man, without shoulder-straps, can
tell the truth, and because we have not fallen
down and worshipped any man while the in
tegrity of the Union itself is at stake. We
feel that we owe an apology to the reader for
wasting words in replying to this base vilifer
Of everybody connected with the Government
and the conduct of the war, e1cept Gen. Nc
Clellan; paper saturated with disloyaty, and
which has done little else except throw clogs
In the way Of the Government, ever since it
was taken from the teat which it had for years
so sedulously sucked, and from which it had
drawn the means OF making fat dividends upon
its stock. That paper has abused tine Pres-
dent with a malignity beitting demon;
and it has used language in relation to Stanton
and other members Of the Cabinet that would
disgrace flsli-woman and when Gen. FIRE.
mont was in an important command in Mis-
souri, it prosecuted him with a virulence that
would do credit to an internal spirit; and it is
such paper-a paper in favor of concessions
and compromises, and ready to say to the
South, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace"-
that has the unblushing impudence to COM
plain of us, not for abusing military COM
mander, but for allowing correspondent to
state facts, those facts seeming to have an un-
favorable bearing upon favorite!
And the Advertiser that comes to the
rescue of Mcclellan and undertakes to charge
us with opposition to the Administration and
Its commanding generals, because we have
published an article complaing of the "mas-
terly inactivity" of the army. Now we say
that the Advertiser-though its editor pub
licly offered bounties to induce a few young
men 10 enhs1-has stakehsquare-edgeo grounds
against the prosecution OF the war, and has
disuhctiy declared that the sup)ugation OF the
reoeilion is an utter ihpossioiiity' here Is Its
language:
But our readers demand oil us to say, when
'"1rl W We ',a,. Law pe8vI co .h.u,
suaded that reason. not force. Is THE DIvTNI-
TY Of the age in which We live. When Con-
gress snail oe persuaded that history furnish
es,aJ fraa au, T. ind'.n.mda,,t l"I y, peopie eau
to captivity. and ruled against their consent.
When Congress shall be persuaded that no ma