The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-14

yet ready to admit it. We are no friends to pro-
scrpton, rs every one knows who knows us: but
we are induced TO como back 10 the days aud the
principles Of Mr.. Jefferson.
The administration, too, will no doubt have some
regard to the er loci in the States where il the custom
for the predominant party to take the places of their
predecessors. In those States the democrats made less
complaint than in others, of prescription, when
they were the victims in ls4l, when their friends were
brought the block by thousands; but they did ex-
press their adherence of those inconsistent men
who went about before the election in l840 prating
to the people that prescription should be pro.
scribed;" and yet, when they had trumphed by
such dishonorable means, were the most remorse-
less in doing its bloody work, and the most fawning
and obsequious at the footstool of power, claiming
its official favors 1t was the inconsistency and the
shamelessness of such conduct which caused the
disgust and the loathing of the democracy in those
States; and yet the very men and the very presses
who approved and applauded this unmtgated
Inconsistency of conduct on the part of their poll
teal friends the most violent in their denunca-
ions Of the President for making comparatively
few removals, in order to do justice to his friends,
and with prudent forecast to the success Of his
own policy and measures.
We have devoted more time and space to these
matters than we will ever again devote to Them We
would remind the editors of the Express Of the old
adage, "that will kick at dead lion" In the
progress Of modern improvement, even that stupid
animal may have so much increased his stock Of
knowledge as to know that he can kick lion chain
ed with as much impunity as he can kick one dead.
The Presidents position forbids that he should no.
tice, il he were disposed, the assaults of the press
opposed to him. however vulgar and vituperative
they may be. 1t would not be becoming in any man,
much less the chief magistrate of the republic, even
to spurn the noisy critics that yelp and snap at his
heels. A consciousness of impunity makes even
towards bold.
With one further remark, and we drop the subject
leaving the New York Express" to vent its CO.
pous illusions upon the administration, and, if it
peases, upon ourselves. 1t asks what ''good thing"
Mr. Polk has done since he commenced his admin
stration-has he "settled one question of foreign or
domestic policys "Is the Oregon question nearer
adjudication" Mr.. Polk has been in Office three
months and half. Did the express" expect him
to finish negotiation for Oregon which had been
pending for nearly twenty-seven years' But we
marvel at the modesty Of the critic. How does he
know what Mr.. Buchanan has done towards a ne
gotiation--what proposition has been made--what
information he has obtained-what advances he has
made with Mr.. Pakenham' The New York Ex-
press is not behind the curtain and therefore it is
somewhat modest in him to Judge of the preparation
for the drama We undertake to say that the admin
istration has spared proper effort for the annexa
ton of Texas. When the world sees the result
and the means which have been employed to secure
it, and to prepare for every event which may occur
the country will do it justice, if the wing press
Is the express" informed of all the measures which
the several departments Of the government have
adopted Not at all. How, then, can it presume
to condemn what it does not profess to understand
Does it know the means which the Secretary Of the
Navy has pursued to organize our navy? the infor-
nation which he has collected, or the plans which
he has formed ! The same question may be pro-
posed about the Secretary of War, the Secretary
of the Treasury, about fnancesi Is it aware of
the extraordinary efforts which the Postmaster GEN
era has made to expedite the mail and to carry out
a new and complicated system for the management
of the post Officer No man who is at all acquainted
with the habits of the President and his Secretaries
but will pronounce them to be one of the most
,oorng cabinets which ever came here; and there is
strong reason to believe that, when their works are
understood, they will be found to deserve the APP
probation of the people.