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Editorial
January 25, 1851
The North Carolinian
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina
What is this article about?
The Charleston Mercury sharply criticizes the Washington National Intelligencer for its Unionism, depicting it as cowardly, neutral, and dependent on government patronage and corruption for survival.
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The Charleston Mercury rakes down the National Intelligencer at Washington city, in the following fashion: "The Intelligencer makes a sublime merit out of his Unionism. Why, it feeds on the Union. Without that it would not exist. It has no position of its own, save its berth by the Treasury. It haunts the confines of north and south, too cowardly ever to take sides with either, and bold only in defending the sacredness of the neutral ground, where the one begins and the other ends. It knows well that if the north and south splits apart, it drops helplessly into the chasm. The ass knoweth his master, and the ox his owner's crib- and it is not accounted among the virtues of these animals that they cling to the scenes of their feeding. No more is it a merit in the Intelligencer that it adores the perpetuity of a Government on whose very corruptions it subsists."
The Charleston Mercury rakes down the National Intelligencer at Washington city, in the following fashion: "The Intelligencer makes a sublime merit out of his Unionism. Why, it feeds on the Union. Without that it would not exist. It has no position of its own, save its berth by the Treasury. It haunts the confines of north and south, too cowardly ever to take sides with either, and bold only in defending the sacredness of the neutral ground, where the one begins and the other ends. It knows well that if the north and south splits apart, it drops helplessly into the chasm. The ass knoweth his master, and the ox his owner's crib- and it is not accounted among the virtues of these animals that they cling to the scenes of their feeding. No more is it a merit in the Intelligencer that it adores the perpetuity of a Government on whose very corruptions it subsists."
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
What keywords are associated?
National Intelligencer
Unionism
Partisan Criticism
Charleston Mercury
Government Corruption
What entities or persons were involved?
Charleston Mercury
National Intelligencer
Treasury
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of The National Intelligencer's Unionism
Stance / Tone
Strongly Critical And Satirical
Key Figures
Charleston Mercury
National Intelligencer
Treasury
Key Arguments
Intelligencer Derives Its Existence From The Union
Lacks Independent Position, Dependent On Treasury Berth
Cowardly Avoids Taking Sides Between North And South
Would Collapse If North And South Split
Adoration Of Government Perpetuity Is Self Serving Due To Subsisting On Its Corruptions