The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-16
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CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER is, rs45
CORRECTION.

THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER l6, is45
CORRECTION.
Hon Henry L. Ellsworth the late Commissioner of Pat
arly high and justly merited acknowledgment Of his
great usefulness and ability in being appointed to make
The were obliged TO call upon the officer
they could find else capable Of fulfilling the duties
True Sun.
Here is another beautiful commentary upon the
propriety of removing Mr.. Ellsworth, and appoint
ing MIR. Burke TO the Office of Commissioners of
Patents II proves all we said at the time the
change was made, as to its improperly and public
Injustice The "Union" took us task for our ami.
mad versions, and placed them upon the personal
grounds of the removal of friend from Office The
public will see, by more general consent, that we
had good reasons for complaint at the change made
The Commissioner of Pstents-Edmund Burke
receives three thousand dollars year for his ser
vices; while his predecessor IS IN the employ OF the
governmental the same salary, we presume-to
write out the commissioners report The only par
ael to this was the removal Of of the clerks Of
the Patent Office by Mr.. Burke, who was afterwards
solicted-as we proved by afidavlt-to come and
teach his successor II seems now that Mr. Burke
requires teaching from his predecessor; and thus we
have practically, two Commissioners of Patents at
a salary Of sir hoasand doiiars.-N Y. Express, Oct
| Is.
The libel contained in the above paragraphs upon
the present Commissioner of Patents, Edmund
Burke, esq, we copy from the "New York Express
of Monday last The paragraph from the True
Sun" we presume, is intended to assert fact,
only what its editor supposed he had good author
| ity for asserting The comments by the express"
are prompted by the too malignant and mendacous
spirit which has characterized the whole course Of
the editors of that paper in reference to Mr. Burke
| and the motive of which is well understood, and
which extracts from the degraded editorials Of that
| paper all their venom We would, on the very
| best authority, assure the "True Sun" that the
government" not, nor was anybody else,
obliged to call on Mr. Ellsworth, or any other per-
son except Mr.. Burke, to make out reports
of the Patent Office. for this year; that Mr..
Ellsworth will have nothing to do with making out
those reports for this year, that if it were even
contemplated to permit Mr.. Ellsworth to have any
thing to do with making out the agricultural report
for this year, it not because the government"
were obliged to call upon him. nor that Mr.. Burke
needed his services, but because Mr. Ellsworth him
self solicited the privilege. We assure the editor Of
the "True Sum- the government has been obliged
to call upon nobody except Mr.. Burke to make out
the reports from his oce that has full confidence
in his ability and capacity to perform any duties
devoving upon him in his new position; and that
Mr. Burke will do as much of the labor, either
mental or physical, in preparing the reports
from his Office as any commissioner has done
who has gone before him. We say this, how
ever not to detract from the just merits of Mr.
Ellsworth; who, we are gratifed in saying, was
worthy and valuable officer, and who would be
the last man to countenance the injustice done to
Mr.. Burke in the paragraph Of the "True Sum-"
The Express" may be at ease in relation to the
Patent Office. We are willing to trust the reputa-
ton Of that office, under the administration of it's
present head, with the country, who will not, in
that ungenerous and malicious spirit which the "Ex
press" displays, Judge Mr. Burke. The editors Of
that paper may rely upon it, that there will be no
''two Commissioners of Patents, at a salary Of six
thousand dollars" while that Office is under the con-
troll of its present head The statement is utterly
founded, is also the statement put forth, some
monthsago, in that paper and now reiterated that Mr..
Burke attempted to procure, authorized any other
person to the services ofa removed
clerk to instruct his in his duties These
tales will only reco upon the heads of the calumni-
ators who put them forth. Mr.. Burke deies both
the malignity and mendacity Of the editors Of the
| Express" and we have reason to believe that he
thinks the talents and standing of those editors will
be hardly able to make either their malignity or
mendacity available. He as little about their
good opinion of him he does about their i'll opin
ion; and if assaling him in the wanton and mali
cious manner in which they do will console them
for his removal Of their relative from office, he will
hereafter leave them unmolested to that sorry, in
discreet, and disreputabe consolation, which they
seem SO earnestly to covet