Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-03

Mr.. Adams himself whom we can readily be-
iievc to have been host in time OF need, there
we're AgR. Benjamin homans Philip r. Fendall.
Richard J. Coke and Or. Tobias Watkins, after
ward fourth auditor Of the treasury. who might
be considered a. editor-in-chief and part
owner.
The National Intellieencer, true to its
Character for decency and dignity in
paign Of 1924 with frequent declarations Of Its
respect for all the nominated candidates and
deprecated the con tinuance Of those secret in
sinuations and open assaults upon one o. other
OF the gentlemen which it had begun to witness
In the press Of various parts Of the country
Only very slowly did il develop its own prefer
ence. and when it did the favorite WAS found to
be William II. Crawford, Secretary Of the Navy.
THE WAR ON Mr.. ADAMS.
As the day Of election neared the preference
became more decided and the advocacy
warmer. circumstance Of much annoyance TO
Mr.. Adams. The Journal therefore
as the mouthpiece of Mr.. Adams, had been hut
little while in existence when il commenced
hurling its shafts at the I,eLli9encey and pretty
soon Mr.. Adams suited his official action to the
Journalistic words Of his organ by cutting of
from the latter named paper the publication Of
advertisements and other government matter
OF the State Department 1t was not
TO be expected that a spirited and talented
writer like Mr.. Gales would tamely sit and
take all this usage without response.
He did respond, and for several months
there ragged a newspaper war between the
Secretary and Mr.. Gales. The Inteih9eacer
held up the cause of Mr.. Adams as unrepubli-
can. not devoid OF regeneration, reaching after
despotlc power and as particularly to be con-
demned for an attack on Mr.. Gallatin.
The new Adams party. said MIR. Gales are
''ultraists worse even than the old federals."
And as to the extraordinary spectacle of high
government officials editing he said: 1T is a
new thing for the editorial department of a
newspaper to be conducted almost exclusively
by official personages."
circumstance tending to show the strength
and boldness of Mr.. Adams will and purpose
was the printing and publication Of still
another paper, ostensibly and openly under
his auspices, styled the National Government
Journal an organ Of the State Department in
particular. Nothing SO audacious." says Mr..
Hardy, has been done during the history OF
the government, before or since" There was
another paper in Washington which kept up
CALLING fire upon Mr.. Adams and his course
the Washington City Gazette, edited by MIR.
Jonathan Elliott 1t supported Mr.. Crawford
and was under the editorial management of
Mr.. john b. Colvln, pungent and vigorous
writer.
HOW Mr. CoLvIN LOST HIS PLACE.
Mr.. Colvin held position in the Department
Of State for many years, but lost it by his own
fault. 1t was Colvins habit to frequent a popu-
lar drinking establishment at the corner of
18th street and Pennsylvania avenue. the
site OF the Kirkwood (now Paiais Royal, and
then the Fountain Inn. kept by David
Apler), and being one evening in an I'M
usually fine humor he happened to espy
the approach of Secretary Adams, his chief,
taking his customary promenade. Out sailed
Colvln and meeting Mr.. Adams on the sidewalk
clasped his arms most affectionately round the
Secretary's neck, exclaiming, aloud: .'Oh! MIR.
Adams. how l do love you!"
To- Tzl, 49, l.. n
cast him of and next day cut his name from
the list of his clerks. After this he became n
writer for the City Carte, and being well
posted on Mr.. Adams public and private his
tory retaliated on his former friend, often
cutting and scoring him to the very quick
The City Gazette, after Mr.. Adams election,
was sold In 1876 to John s. Meehan, so long
librarian to Congress and by him to Duff
Green, who changed the name to United States
Telegraph and advocated the interests Of Gen.
jackson and John c. Calhoun. After the sale of
the Gazette Jonathan Elliott star ted new paper,
We, The Prople. which had brief existence.
A congress, something on the plan of the Pan
American, was proposed at that period to meet
at Panama to take measures for practical
enforcement Of the Monroe doctrine The
whole matter dropped through, for when the
representatives Of the United States went to
present themselves at the congress it could no.
where be found.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE GLOBE.
The establishment Of the Globe by Francis P.
Blair took place in December. 1880. Duff Green
had advised against the appointment of Gen.
John II. Eaton as Secretary of War; and the
subsequent dissolution Of the cabinet in conse-
quence OF the refusal OF the ladies' of the cabi-
net members to receive Mrs. Eaton had
estranged the President, and the result was the
coming OF Mr.. Blair to Washington to assume
the position as editor of the organ of the ad-
ministration. Mr.. Hardy gives a very full and
detailed statement Of the influences brought to
bear upon Gen. Jackson, clerical as well as lay.
1.-The Rev. DIR. Ezra Styles Ely Of Philadelphia
yentured to confer with the President-elect on
the subject OF the projected appointment of
Gen. Eaton and to advise against it as fraught
with prospective trouble and damage to the in
coming regime" But jackson was proof
against all that could be adduced against lis
friend and biographer ami his bride. The friends
OF Mr. Calhoun joined with Green, and the ia
voritism of the administration to Mr.. Van Buren,
for the succession caused additional trouble
and when the notification project was
preached all hope OF Mr.. Calhoun success in
the presidential campaign was at end. The
Telegraph was not an ardent supporter Of the
administration after tine advent of Mr.. Blair
and gradually it drifted into the opposition
and became strongly anti-Jac kson. 1t supported
Lieut. Randolph, who made the assault on
Gen. Jackson, not justifying the assault, but
giving the reason for the harsh treatment of
Lieut. Randolph, who was about to publish the
letter OF Dr. randolph previously acting Sec
rotary of War between Eaton's resignation
and Gen. Cass' appointment), in which that
gentleman who was the brothcr-in-law of Gen
Eaton, affirmed the truth of the rumors which
had led to tie dissolution of the late cabinet
I'VE told him" says the Telegraph, that his
agen " in that matter would cost him his COM
mission. We never have doubted that it was
Eaton's influence which governed the Presi-
dent in this matter"
A remarkable series of letters were published
in the National Iiteligencer BY ex-President
John Quincy Adams to Edward Livingston,
Secretary of State and also general grand
high priest of the General Royal Arch Chapter
OF the United States" in opposition to Free
Masonry. Mr.. Adams claimed the right to do
this, as being. an anti-Mason and so accused of
calumny and persecution by Mr.. Livingston in
an address delivered at his installation. His
first letter to tine Inteii9encer Mr.. Livingston,
or some friend for him, parodied in verse in
the GtOte Col. Force continued the publica-
ton of the National Journal for ten years, and
it was afterward published by George Waiter
son and then by William Prentiss and John
Agg, but went down at last flying the colors of
Henry Clay. 1t was not until 1884 that the
name OF wing" was used to designate the op-
position to jackson and Van buren,. The
democrats had been denounced as tories. The
designation was first directly seized by Col.
James Watson Webb OF the New York Courier
aud Enquirer and was forthwith accepted by
reclamation throughout the opposition press.
The National Iateutgencer took it and held to il
during the rest OF its existence.
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