The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-13
The Charges of the Bar"brner Prcxs against the Adj
D.IuistrntIone

'unhiae H. Ihey are forced TO do this, IN self deience
and they not unfrequenty work themselves up into a
state of feeling, which makes them utterly reckless of the
ialsehood OF the charges designed TO Justify their own
aposiacy This appears to be the condition and the
course OF the leading barnburner presses of New York
no one among them, however, has carried lis mpu-
dence OF assertion in opposition to wel-known facts
so far as the Albany Atlas. In commenting upon
It's recent artcles-and particularly that of Monday
ast-we shall pass by those points which relate merely
to the local politics of New York, and confne
marks 10 its charges against the national administration
The burden of It's accusation that, "durng the life oil
the late Gov. Wright" the administration "was con-
santly plotting his political destruction )" and, to give
color to this infamous fasehood it resorts to other asser
tons equally remote from the truth, and susceptible OF
easy and complete reutaton. The chief of these asser
tons OF the Atlas-and, indeed, its only proof of the hos
tility of the administration to Governor Wright-has
relation the selections for Offices from the State OF
New York. Upon this point il charges that Z" in this
State, with two three exceptions all the offices of the
general government given to the deamers and op
ponens of Mr. Wright; and since the first appointments
of Mr.. Polk, no friend of Mr.. Wright has received an
office from the administration; since his defeat, the most
open, the bitter of those who voted for John Young
cpents of the patronage of the administration"
To fasy this charge, propose to allude to facts
obvious and well known to leave preence for
the charitable conclusion that the writer OF the article in
the Atlas could have been ignorant of them. So far from
prescribing the barnbuners-who claim to be the special
and only friends OF Mr. Wrght-in the distribution of Of
fees in New York, the administration has made itself sub
ect constant complaint from the other section of the
party, that they he barnbumers) have been unduy ia
vored in this respect So far the administration from
plotting the political destruction of Governor Wright
acting in any hostile spirit towards him, that he was
the very first whom the President offered one OF
the principal positions in his cabinet When this offer
declined the War Department offered to Mr. b
f. Butler who certainly will not be ranked by the Atlas
among those peases denomnate the defamers and
opponents of Mr.. Wright" Mr., Butler, however, APP
pears have preferred the Office of United States district
attorney, which he now holds and the War Department
was then given to eminent citizen of New York who
had been from the day when Mr. Wright entered public
lfe till the day of his DEATH his intimate political asso-
cate and his firm and constant friend and who as we have
abundant to knou, this time reveres his name
and memory far deeply and sincerely than most of
those who are now eager at to boast of their
for the organization of the cabinet its bearing upon the
charge of plotting the political destruction of Mr.
Wright"
We come now to appointments to subordinate Offices
selected from New York And, in the first place. we have
say that, in regard TO these, according best
Judgment and information, the voice of Mr.. Wright was
Turing his life, quite potential that OF any citizen of
that State We cannot be expected to fully the
whole list of prominent appointments from New York
but we will allude TO a sufficient number of them to
show the wfu untruth of the assertion of the Atlas
which confines the number of the selections from the
friends of Mr.. Wright to 'tpo three )" and those
among the "first appointments" of the administration
The only appointment the head of bureau in Wash
ington, from the State of New York, was that of Mr.
illet well known early and particular friend of
MIR. Wright and whose selection could not but be graft
lying to him. Mr.. Gllet has since been advanced
to the socitorshp of the treasury, the second law
office in the gift Of the government Until recently,
but one foreign mission had been given to New
York-that of Mr.. Davezac, charge dafa,res at the
Hague, who also well known as a devoted
friend of Mr. Wright And the only other foreign mis-
sion given to New York is that bestowed few weeks
since upon Mr. Livingston, who the friend of Mr.
Wright and whose appointment was certainly solicited
by several gentlemen of the barnburning interest
Among the consulates filled from New York. the two
most lucrative and importanttha Havre and that al
the Sandwich lslands-were given respectively TO Mr.
Staples "a recent appolnmenD and to Mr. TurrilI Both
Of these gentlemen were decided friends of Mr. Wright
and were strongly recommended by those who are
the political associates of the Albany Atlas
And of the remaining consuates from New York. there
is not one, we believe, whose application was not
supported from the same quarter. This brief statement
of appointments at Washington. and OF the foreign ap-
pointments made from New York, gives abundant proof
that in the distribution of this class of Offices the admin
straion neither sought the political destruction of MI
Wright overlooked his friends, nor dsregarled his
wishes. But we have something still more cogent to
alege in reply to this audacous accusation of the Atlas
Three foreign missions of the first class have been ten
dered to citizens of New York-the mission to England
first 10 ex President Van Buren,, and subsequently to
Hon. John A. Dix; and that to Russia to Hon Addison
Gardiner But to that section of the party which the
Atlas charges with monopolizng all the Offices not one
foreign mission of any grade has either been given or
rendered
We came to the local Offices in New York II
has been the policy of the President to distribute them
without regard TO the unhappy dssensons which have
matter of SURPRISE therefore, that each section should
complain that it has not received due proportion of the
patronage of the government. We do not propose TO