Prostitution of Northern Journalism.
--It is humiliating to see such papers as the
National Intelligencer once was, singing hosannabs to the tyrannical and blackguard Government which has usurped the seat of
Washington. How can that journal presume to affect such holy reverence for the
Union as the work of
George Washington's hands, when it knows that the presen Federal despotism has not the slightest feature in common with that Union?
There in
Washington, at its own doors, it has seen the
Constitution daily and deliberately trampled under foot, the rights of the States and of the citizen ruthlessly struck down, gallant
Maryland prostrate and bleeding at every pore under a gigantic military despotism, and yet the
Intelligencer speaks of the
Government that perpetrates all these atrocities as the sacred representative of the principles and spirit of
George Washington! Can anything be more nauseating and hideous than such hypocrisy?
In its own city of
Washington, it knows that not only men have been deprived of their liberties and denied the privilege of
habeas corpus, but that delicate ladies, the wives and daughters of gentlemen whose former official position once commanded the obsequious recognition which the
Intelligencer never failed to render to rank and distinction, have been arrested by vile minions of the
Government at the
White House and guarded by brutal soldiers, not being allowed the attendance of one of their own sex, but forced to submit to the continued presence, at all times and all places, of armed ruffians from the lowest rabble of the
North, and treated with insults and indignities which could not exist under the shadow of the
most despotic civilized court in
Europe.
The
Intelligencer knows all this, and yet prates about the
Union as a sacred and blessed thing, and lifts its aged hands in pious horror at the unparalleled proposition of throwing off such a Government oh,
shade of Pecesniff, come to
America and refresh yourself with a contemplation of this whited sepulchre of the press, full of dead men's bones.
