The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-28
MAYOR OF TIE CITY.
To he Editor Of The Union:

MAYOR OF THE CITY
To he Editor Of The Union:
Mr.. Mayor Seaton occupies part of your col
umns with defence Of the fact stated by one Of
your correspondents, that, Of all the officers of this
corporation, only one is democrat The mayor
has taken ample time TO prepare his communica-
ton. He has either occupied that time very un.
prohtably, or he has bad cause. TO defend. The
charge of your correspondent was that the corpora
ton officers were in number more than sixty; that
OF these, only one was democrat, (and that one,
believe, appointed since the Inauguration of Mr.,
Polk.) Your correspondent names the men, with
their political opinions. Now, In this il there be
any mistake, Mr. Mayor Seaton can point il out,
specifically OF those officers enumerated, and
whose political opinions are asserted, which one il
misrepresented by your correspondent Which OF
| them has complained of misrepresentation The
| mayor says that he has democratic authority for
stating that considerable number OF corporation
officers democrats" The mayor may prove an
| Indifferent Judge of what democratic authorlty'
Is. Perhaps his normants and the objects of their
! information, belong to that class of democrats who
were converted by "the reteS from .Ntc York" We
can name some men Of high cidiuts to be ranked i'll
hat category The mayors democratic friends
have enjoyed little reputation for their democracy.
But what does all this verbiage of the mayor
amount to- Nothing. Your correspondent has
produced the list Of ofceholders under the corpo-
ration He has named their political opinions. OF
viz Sia puh OhSs goui
democrat.
there be any error in that list, let the mayor
point it out Until he does so, by every fair
rule of argument and of inference, it must be
| taken to be true. IL error existed 10 the list, and
the mayor could have shown it, he would have
done so. He certainly cannot be ofso weak capac-
ty ms not to zee how far more convincing and con-
elusive such course would have been, than the
idle assertion, indefinite assumption, and mere
wordiness of the reply to your correspondent to
which his name is appended. The fact, then, Of ain
entire monopoly with the exception ola single in
stance) of all the offices of this corporation by the
wings is plan-unopposed by anything like a
definite and specific denial. III these officers were
appointed by Mr.. Mayor Seaton. 1t is true, these
men (many of them) were in office before. IL this
evil (of entire monopoly of corporation Offices by
the whigs) existed before Mr.. Mayor Seaton's time
it only proves that it has been of long duration
The drift of the mayors logic is to prove that the
exclusion Of the democrats from Office is evil, be-
cause it has never been otherwise. The democrats
have no right to complain, argues Mr.. Mayor Sea-
ton of being out, because the tchigs nsesr aiioced Them
10 be IN
The mayor attempts TO say--or to insinuate by
half assertion--thut these officers were appointed
by democratic mayor. Mr.. Seaton says that
these officers "embrace, almost without exception,
the same persons that The mayor found in Office at
the time of his election, five years ago; and nearly
all of whom were CONTINUED IN, or APPOINTED TO
office, by a democratic mayorh Q, pitlabe subter-
fuge
This is the plain truth, and the mayor knows it.
In the sense in which the mayor the term,
since the rise Of the wing party, we never had
ssdemocratic ,nauor.' General Van Ness, Il demo-
crat, was mayor, (and is the mayor alluded to
above;) but especially dsavowed running on party
ground 1t was thought polite by portion of the
wings to Join the democrats in securing his election
He was, therefore, not democratic mayor; not the
nominee Of the democratic pnrty;nor elected land
Mr.. Mayor Seaton knows that he could not have
been electod) by democratic votes. The mayor
says ''tha these officers were continued, or appoint
ed by democratic mayor" During the mayoraty
of Gen Van Ness, the two boards were wing. If Gen.
Van Ness had chosen, he could not have removed or
appointed, because the appointment must have been
ratified by the board of aldermen, who We're wings
Besides 10 have acted on party grounds, under the
circumstances OF his election, Chosen by the min
gled votes of both parties would have been fraud
upon the terms on which he agreed to be cand-
date. in honesty and good faith, all that he could
do land all that he did, was to let things as TO party
grounds, remain as they were. All parties were
then united to get rid of the Holland loan, which
by that union was happily effected. This universal
prescription of the democratic party from office IN
Washington, General Van Ness had neither the
power the disposition, nor the right to interfere with.
The mayor says shat, so far from holding the
cruel and anti-repubcan doctrine of prescription for
opinions sake, the mayor disavows ana detests
u
rabe at sentiment" The "mayor' 'dIsavows and
detests it, but the "edtor," in l84l approved and
sanctioned il. What admirable managers these
"whgs'' are With political majority IN Wash
ngton city, they only allow one democrat place IN
floeny Years and yet, in political minority as to
national matters, they have the crafito get, and The
hardihood TO expect TO RETAIN to,rfts Of He ttderal
offices al The seal of government IL is no wonder
they have such horror of removals; for, IN MI
norlty majority at the ballo-boXes, they have
!. 4 = of nuAn tyhan
their enemies in power, at the rate OF NUNS
and when hey succeed, Cat least IN Washington a.
perpetual monopoly The mayor thinks Tan Outrage
for the democrats to remove as many OF their oppo-
nents as will give the party representing me reel
ings the principles, and the liberties of the people,
at least fair proportion of the Offices of the peo-
pie whilst it is prescription for the wing party
here of which he is the elected representative and
organ foreper 10 ercude their opponentsrom place and
employment
never was in favor of unkind and universal re-
moval | would, as far possible, spare the help
less and the family -incumbered, even OF our oppo-
nens. But there is ample room for extensive re-
form Long standng abuses cry aloud for energet
ic redress. II is disgrace TO u democratic admin
isratonit is political folly that entities us to the
derison of our enemies-to admit that, although
our principles are triumphant, we are able TO hnd
only in the ranks of our opponents men VINO nave
the virtue or possess the capacity, to administer the
government / do not cite the example OF the wings
here, as that of cxempars of the course which
the democratic party ought to pursue But the
wings having, to il y knowledge ever since party
was known here, perpetually excluded their oppo-
nents from all place or employment IN our corpo-
rate oiairs-by the pressure OF prescription never
ccasng and vigilant--they shall not escape the re-
sponsibity Of such course, by degree of pre-
variation, clubbing, and meanness of spirit in de-
feat, as utterly contemplate as has been their tyr
amy In success
MILITARY MovEMENrs-'rhe United States
troops at the barracks and at the lower cotton press,
arc making preparations for their visit to Texas,