Year: 1859

That audacous and mendacious libel on American
newspaperdom, the Constitution" which is the
only paper in Washington, scarcely anywhere else,
poor to do the Administration reverence, seems
to have adopted rule of action that may be en-
bodied in the following formula, which it has proba
bly, unanimously adopted:''


Whereas, We see nothing in the papers that we
wish to believe


Resolved, That we, the editor of the Constitution,
will not believe aught but that we wish to-"


But it is not emnently successful in carrying out
this platform if we may judge by the spasmodic
venom with which it breaks out about every day,
eveing its thunders at public character or some
editor who has the presumption to think that Mr..
Buchanan is not second Washington, thus battling
its attempt to seemingly ignore the unpopularity
of the Administration. 1t has habitually charged
all newspaper reports of disafection as mere false.
hoods, and so dismissed them with column, good
measure, of vtuperation in most instances but the
teegraphc reports of political events and govern
mental action were thorns in its side which ranked
painfully and which it did not know exactly what to
do with. 1t might charge editors of opposition
journals and hostile politicians with unscrupuous-
ness, and find some eredence with its readers but it
hardly knew how it would do to denounce the tele-
graphic reporters and charge them with being all
a
! admission of the general unpopuarty of the A d.
minstration But it has fuay had to come to it, and
is down the teegraphic agents of the Associated
Press in the following bitter style, the sweeping ac
cusaon thus including nearly all the telegraph re.
porters in the country:


The telegraph agents of the Associated Press, witt
their wonted talent for Misrepresentation of facts an
the organs of Bolts and his conederates with their
usual eagerness to bear false witness against the
mocraey have not contened themselves with putin
a false construction on the opinions of the Govern
ment, but they have also manufactured vast amour
of popular opposition to those opinions, large Or O
portion of which is sheer fabrication.


The suboined is Of the Constitutions celebrated
refusals to believe to The Bolts organs ex.
cepted," means about nneteen-twentieths of the pa
pers in the country. the proportion Of the press at
large which differs with the Administration on the
naturalization question. We like the vigorous cool
ness of the assertion that native and foreign born
citizens are and will be perfectly satisfied" etc., etc
1t shows plucky, stiekat-nothng spirit, and great
physical powers of erucaton for if the maker of it
did not possess them, such statement would have
stuck in his throat and choked him to death but il
is harder for others to swallow it than for him tc
throw it off, to disgust the public with its bare
recklessness of fact:


Native and foreign born citizens are and will he
perfectly satisfied with the just and dgnified cou rse
pursued by the President and his Cabinet on this
subject, and the press so far we can see (alWavs
excepting the Bolts organs) to be quite salts
fed that the doctrines and position which are defined
in the dispatch to Mr. Wright are just and correct