Naturally the enemies of the Administration in Congress looked upon Blair and his paper with venomous hatred, and not without cause. No head was too distinguished for his bludgeon, and it descended with resounding whacks upon the craniums of the greatest as well as the least of these, leading to many furious protests and denunciations on the floor of the House and Senate. The “Congressional Globe” is thickly sprinkled with references to the paper. There was nothing of novelty in a statesman rising to a question of personal privilege to explain that the editor had done him an injustice in describing him as a liar, an anarchist, or a traitor. Occasionally Clay, or some lesser light, would rise to protest against the action of the President in conveying information, to which the Congress was entitled, through the columns of his organ. Henry A. Wise would complain that “the Secretary of the Treasury has already informed Congress and the country, through the columns of the ‘Globe’ of Saturday last,” that a certain policy would be pursued.[370] Or perhaps he would merely desire to explain that a certain editorial was a “total perversion of the facts.”[371] Or maybe it was John Quincy Adams who took the floor to describe the editor of the “Globe” as “the ambassador of the Executive,” an ambassador being “a distinguished person sent abroad to lie for the benefit of his country.”[372] One member would secure recognition to “indignantly repel the charge made against him by the ‘Globe’ of being an anarchist and a revolutionist.”[373] Even Webster was not impervious to the darts of the journalist, and did not think it beneath his dignity formally to protest against an editorial paragraph, “flagitiously false,” which had reflected upon him as chairman of the Finance Committee.[374] With the politicians, the country press, and the party leaders in the Congress treating the “Globe” as the editorial reflection of the President, it is not surprising that the diplomatic corps should have accepted the general assumption, and that the foreign offices of Europe should have attached no little significance to any of its observations on international affairs. Of the truth of this we have one very striking illustration.