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Editorial
March 17, 1845
Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
What is this article about?
The Charleston Mercury criticizes the Globe newspaper, seen as the new administration's mouthpiece, for excessively praising the inaugural speech, viewing it as insincere flattery amid past governmental deceptions and oppressions.
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THE GLOBE AND THE INAUGURAL.
As there is no reasonable doubt of the Globe being installed Court Journal to the new Administration, it looks all natural and proper to see that paper blazoned with laudation of the speech from the throne. They who are well paid for praise, shall they not lay it on thick? And shall not courtiers utter the language of their trade? It is all right in the Globe, but we hope that paper is aware that we take its eulogies with many grains of allowance. We have had too much of this in times past. Putting green spectacles on a horse and feeding him with shavings, may do for once, but in the long run even an ass would rebel against it. We have asked for bread and they gave us a stone--for fish and they gave us a serpent. If we judge harshly, then, we judge as a people who have been many times deceived and betrayed, and that by the very men to whom are now surrendered up the guidance of the Administration, and because we object to hanging the one about our necks and putting the other in our mouths, we are denounced as rebels, and have lectures on the enormity of not loving a Government "known to us only by its oppressions."
Charleston Mercury.
As there is no reasonable doubt of the Globe being installed Court Journal to the new Administration, it looks all natural and proper to see that paper blazoned with laudation of the speech from the throne. They who are well paid for praise, shall they not lay it on thick? And shall not courtiers utter the language of their trade? It is all right in the Globe, but we hope that paper is aware that we take its eulogies with many grains of allowance. We have had too much of this in times past. Putting green spectacles on a horse and feeding him with shavings, may do for once, but in the long run even an ass would rebel against it. We have asked for bread and they gave us a stone--for fish and they gave us a serpent. If we judge harshly, then, we judge as a people who have been many times deceived and betrayed, and that by the very men to whom are now surrendered up the guidance of the Administration, and because we object to hanging the one about our necks and putting the other in our mouths, we are denounced as rebels, and have lectures on the enormity of not loving a Government "known to us only by its oppressions."
Charleston Mercury.
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Press Freedom
What keywords are associated?
Globe Newspaper
Inaugural Speech
Administration Praise
Political Betrayal
Government Oppression
Press Flattery
What entities or persons were involved?
Globe
New Administration
Charleston Mercury
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of The Globe's Praise For The Inaugural Speech
Stance / Tone
Distrustful And Harshly Critical Of The Administration And Its Press
Key Figures
Globe
New Administration
Charleston Mercury
Key Arguments
The Globe Is Paid To Praise The Administration Excessively
Past Deceptions By Government Leaders Justify Skepticism
People Have Been Given Stones Instead Of Bread And Serpents Instead Of Fish
Critics Are Denounced As Rebels For Objecting To Oppressive Government