Mobile register and journal., 1845-10-09

0eees, hho he WIN DC Drought up pFooaby IN II
private suit Tor damages. So, unless literally in
Identified by the Wings for his supposed services to
them, he will gain nothing by his turplule.
Ofthe Importance of these documents you can Judge
as well as l. lfthe enemies of Mr.. Van buren, expect
10 find IN it any thing pull down his high rcputa.
ton, or destroy his influence, they must be sadly
No man living could have better stood
tins scrutiny, exercised by malignant personal en-
envy, into his Utmost private thoughts. There is not
a line found which be construed TO The prejudice
oil his official or personal dlsnerestedness and n-
Iegrty. The yirulence with which the connecting
commentary Of the writer attempts TO Iasen charges
of corruption and nsincery upon Mr.. Van Buren,,
for the OF Others, is totally without proof-nay,
in conflict with The testimony of the most private
letters written by MIR. Van Buren, himself-witness
his confidential letter TO Hoyi, about Bennett and
the Press.
The most conspicuous figures Butler and John
Van Buren,, the ex-President's son. The former is
and Warren Bank, t,Oenty fpe gears ago, when
young lawyer at Sandy Hill: and young John is
mnde to s4iiow off very unpeasantly for some very
youthful foIlies and prolanies-w he perpetra-
traled, when very wild, witty. spoken, betting
and Specializing youth, hardly OF age, some thirteen
or fourteen years ago--as exhibited in extracts from
some very loose letters addressed 10 Hoyt. The
French paperef this city actually comments upon
these a. The - ucton Of Tie elder Van Buren,
seriously and gasely sends abroad these boyish pro-
auctions, (of which no is probably more ashaln-
ed han the writer, now evidence Of the personal
and private characteristics Of The ex-Presdent.-
The rest Of the book exhibits mainly the scrambes
of politicians for oice--some Of them discreditahle
enough, but few OF them offensive than the pri-
yate annals of all parties would exhibit if closely
examined, with little scruple as 10 the exposure
of the secret thoughts of applicants as has been
shown OH this OCCASION | should like 10 see IA SIM
liar batch of Wing letters, in 1911, written from
this city, touching The distribution Of the 'spoils' Of
the Harrison campaign and victory. They would
be neat computation. judging from the selection o.
a few which the controversies between the various
factions have here brought forth One or two which
Greedy published some time ago, in which Curtis
and Wetmore fgured-gave GLIMPSE of the MASS
behind-from which rare development might be
expected. if the contents of some Wing desks or
trunks, carefully marked 'private,' could see the
light.
Understand me, that consider these things, whe-
Their done by party the other, as evs-n some
sense unavoidable, but not altogether So The dis
tributon of public patronage is the weak point OF
parties and administrations; and no party, and no
administration, really gains any strength, that is
worth having, by the power to bestow office. A
party which is out of power, undoubtedly gathers ad-
herens from the vast mass Of expec,ants, and the
scarcely less numerous disconnected. The party in
possession rarely gains by appointments, and seldom
fails to lose by the dsappoinlments. Yet the public
service must he performed; and it has become a
settled opinion that the chief executive and political
appointments ought to be given 10 those who APP
prove of the policy of the administration fot the time;
and all parties have found it impossible, if they
would, 10 draw line, or establish rule, which
shall prevent the extension of The same principle to
the subordinates generally -certainly the democratic
administration and officers generally have not car
ried The practice further tha their opponentsi and
see nc probability, Kings are, that 1t VIII he
~ violence does so much harm to the country, as the
silent encroachmens Of men undsputedly IN
power, as TO be without political opposition.
From the reace Of 1916 to 1925, ten years of the
of qood ieelngs,' the "no-party times,'' more
wa. done to weaken the Constitution and injure the
rights of The people than could have been possible
IN party times. We must take the evis OF popular
parties. with their advantages, and only labor that
they shall be rs few, and little injurious TO morals
and principles, as possible. And with that view, l
should be glad to any practicable plan for d.
minishing the Federal patronage, and Indeed all
public patronage whatever. The restriction Of the
Tariff to IA revenue standard, ought be made the
occasion for diminishing the overgrown Custom
House establishment, and the dismissal Of many sub
ordinatos whom the complicated system of Protec-
ton has pamed upon the country.
r. J. Walker is engaged in digesting the lntor-
nation necessary to enable him TO recommend the
revenue measures which properly emanate from his
department. and will ! have no doubt, faithfully
advocate the true republican siandard-equal taxa
ton, and only necessary iaxation--nolh'ng Tor sur
plus, or patronage, or favoritsm. Mr.. POLK will
add his duty; and if the Democrats in Congress do
theirs, there will be large deduction made from the
numbers of public officers well las vast dininu-
ton of the public burdens. The doubts ri Mr. Polk
and Mr.. Walker thrown out in the charleston Mer-
curry and its Washington correspondence, are, in the
general opinion of Democrats, extremely uhgener-
GUS. They look more like the effort to keep up a
warfare upon certain high members Of the Democrat
c party. than desire to judge oil the administration
fairly.
Bishop Onderdonk appears to have majority OF
friends in the Episcopal Convention now sitting
here. Their course appears to be determined upon,
not to depose him or appoint successor. but to
suffer him to resume the title and competent salary,
and have the Episcopal duties performed by some
substitute The debates Saturday were very ve-
hement, and the Convention was nearly as disor-
DERBY as any political meeting IN Mobile-and you
have seen some specimens there.
THE STOLEN LETTERs-Agaia.-The New
York Tribune defends its publication of the stolen
letters, and ,stifes itself by precedents: LIST,
the publication of The Glentworlh papers; and. I'd,
the publication of the letter Of Henry Clay to Cas-
sius NJ. Clay. 5trr.
Upon this defen ce we find the Northern papers,
Wing and Democrat, fully expressing their views,
some of which we .-...
Ia the first place. says the News, the Tribune did
at the lime and does now, condemn ia terms OF the
strongest indignation the very acts which 1t cites az
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