The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-10
REMOVALS.

We exposed, last evening, the monstrous misrep-
resentation which has just appeared in the Norfolk
Herald, viz that in two days thiry-seven removals
had been made in this city. We stated that, il the
Washington correspondent had confined himself to
screen cases, he would have come much nearer the
truth.
We have since seen specific statement from one
of the correspondents of the New York Herald, viz:
that all 'the removals from Office in Washington
city, since the 4th of March, ls45, to the 9th in.
slant, (viz three months,) amount only to fifty,
including six messengers and ,oaiehmsn, three four
who have resigned" two, whose commissions
had expired by law; two, whose services were ne
cessarly dispensed with under the law reducing the
number Of clerks to be hereafter employed in the
General Land Office; and one, temporary clerk in
the Patent Office, for whom the commissioner could
find nothing more to do. For what causes
these fifty auditors, clerks, postmasters, &C.,
were removed-how many for absolute inca
pacity-how many for their brawling, indecent and
improper partisanship--and how many because
they were wings, who had taken the place of the
worthy democrats turned out during the wing dy-
nasty, does not appear from the record; but are
confident that not many have been superseded for
opinions sake, in these three months, as are at
tributed, in the Norfolk Herald to the work of two
days
Postmasters, and other officers, have been re-
moved of course, at other places but how many,
and for what causes, we will not profess to
rate; but we will undertake to assert, not halt
as many as were made during the corresponding
period of the Granger administration. Upon this
subject, however, we find in the "Detroit Free
Press" of the 5th instant, the following article
which saves US from the necessity of any elaborate
statistics: 4.#
"PRoscRIprIoN.--As some Of the wing papers in this
State talking about the prescription owhig posmas
ters we make the following extract from debate in Con
gress between Mr. Granger Harrsons Postmaster General
| and Mr.. Weller of Ohio
1.-THE gentleman from New York [Mr. Crangerl stands
by his prfnciplesr What the principles upon which
that gentleman entered the cabinet Of General Harrison
talks about the spoilsp viii he be good tell
how many victims guiotined whilst he stood at tn,
"'Mr Granger Does the gentleman from Ohio desire
to his question:
MIR Weller. Certainly do and will be very much
obliged to him II he will give It.
MIR Granger said he would respond with pleasure
"Mr Weller SEVENTEEN HUNDRED. And how
many would have been turned out the gentleman had
remained IN office twg W. weeks 9Sngsr thu. hs
remained in Office little longer he would have turned Out
1900 more making 4.7oo in ALL
Here then, is the acknowledgment from member o.
Gen Harrsons cabinet that four thousand and hun
dred posmaste marked for prescription by party
who were pledged to prescribe prescription OF this
Der seventeen hundred hurled from Office in the shor
space six months for the crime Of being democrats We
find fault with Granger but we complain that wher
the work goes slow but sure they should mourn"