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


Governors ofTerrories
Secretaries Of Territories
Marshals 20 10
Surveyors Of customs y 30
pOstmasters after 1885, salary
1913 las
Now how many has the present Executive re-
moved from Officer We have not the precise nfor-
nation, but we will venture to say not one-tenth
part of the number removed by the remorseless
wing administration during the same period of
time. And yet the express" has the efrontery to
arraign the President in terms hardly more elegan,
than the phrases of the fsh-market, for his pro-
scription of wing Office holders. "He has made
many heart ache by his ruthless prescription. He
and his advisers have been entreated in the name
of humanity, not to throw upon the world,
fathers, brothers, upon whom wives, children, sis
ters were DEPENDENT" says the Express"
But where were the tender sympa,hies of this
pure and amiable print during the Wholesale
prescription of the hard-cder regn' Where its
sensitive humanity when hecatombs Of demo-
cratic fathers" and "brothers were brought to the
bocki Where its eloquent denunciation when the
poor aborer was shamelessly prescribed 1t then
gave vent to no expression Of sympathy. No word
Of censure then escaped from the pen Of its editors.
But we have dwet too long upon this topic, and
must hasten TO another.
The express" editor seems to think that the
cabinet advisers of the President are no better than
they should be. We do not deem it necessary to
a. of,
the malevolent attacks Of an INSCRIPTIONS party
print either to character, public and private, or
as to talents and competency. Nor are we disposed
| to make invidous comparisons between the gentle
men of the present cabinet, and others who have
filed similar stations. Yet we think we may with
propriciy institute comparison between them and
the gentlemen composing the first cabinet Of the
| celebrated "hard-cider'' administration.
We begin with Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Webster.
We NEEDLE not with the private character of either.
We leave that question for the world to judge. We
will weigh them as public men, and statesmen. lsMr.
Buchanan inferior to Mr.. Webster, effective
debater, as calm and sagacious statesman, or as
patriot Admitting that Mr. Webster, in point Of
TALENT stood the front rank IN the Senate of which
they were both at the same time members, we claim
the same high distinction for Mr.. Buchanan. In
one respect lie is the superior of Mr.. Webster As
a public man, his integrity is beyond suspicion The
people Of this country know that James Buchanan
has an American heart They know that while Mr..
Webster was advocating the cause of our enemy,
James Buchanan shoudered his musket and march
ed to the defence of his country. They know that
he will make no huckstering and degrading treaties
by which the soil Of our proud republic will pass
under the dominion of our old oppressor and most
inveterate foe. In the hands Of Mr.. Buchanan the
people feel that the honor of the country is safe;
and whether it falls to his lot to negotiate concerning
Texas or Oregon not foot of our rghtful territory
will be surrendered to the British government.
They will never suspect that British threats will in
timidate him, nor that British gold can buy him.
They are also confident that his diplomatic pen will
be welded with as much talent and grace, as Mr..
Webster's ever was. He will not bully Mexico,
and truckle to England; but to both he will hold
the language of courtesy and dignity, yet also of de-
cision and unshrinking frmness.
And is not the contrast between Messrs. Walker
and Ewing even more favorable TO the former
When did the latter ever display the keen intellec-
Mr.. Walker upon the sub-treasury, in l640'
When did Mr.. Ewing ever make so lucid, beau
tiful, and splendid constitutional and legal an argu-
ment as the present Secretary of the Treasury did
! in the celebrated Mcleod case--an effort which
commanded the applause Of political friends
and opponents, and which was pronounced by
some admirers to he the ablest legal argu-
ment ever made in the Senatei And where is
the production Of Mr.. Ewing that exhibits the re-
search and ability of Mr.. Walkers letter Texas
Ia document that IL, perhaps, destined to be attend
ed with as important results to this country and to
Texas as ever fell from the pen Of any mann But
we have not space TO pursue the comparison fur
| ther nor is it necessary.
And will the gifted Bancroft---the brilliant writer
and orator as brilliant as he is writer Of the first
and most eminent historians ofhis country whose in
dcfatigable industry is only equalled by his splendid
| talents-suffer in comparison with George h. Bad
GER the Secretary of the Navy under the late whig
regime? Admitting that the latter is man Of high
~ respectable talents, he has not attained, and
can attain, the distinguished reputation for intellect
ual ability, at home abroad, which the present
Secretary of the Navy now enjoys.
i And is Mr.. John Bell to be ranked before Gov
Marcy, the sagacious and experienced statesman
who was once the distinguished representative o
the empire State in the Senate Of the United States
and afterwards one of the most eminent and sue
cessful governors to whom the affairs of that truly
great State was confdedi II the Express" think
so, venture to say that the country entertains q
different opinion.
/ And how is it with the Postmaster General under
General Harrison, and the present Incumbent Was
Mr. Granger, while in Congress, ever ranked be
i fore Mr. Johnson as man Of talents' Was hi
ever ranked as high' He might not have incurred
the wrath Of the many depredators upon the public
treasury, whom the interchangeable vigilance, firm
ness, and energy Of Cave Johnson kept at bay, ant
for which he merits the thanks Of the country. tn,