The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-27
THE OFFICES.
A Word more about Removals.

Lest the Cabinet, in the pressure of pub
lie business, should be needless of the
character of the opposition which is now
waged against them, we shall again re-
mind them that they are beset upon every
hand, by those who will, as surely as the
sun rises and sets, bring confusion and
defeat upon the Administration if the
great party which brought it into power
is not vindicated by its acts. Need we
again refer to the deliberate insults which
have been published against General TAY-
LoR and the Cabinet, by individuals who
have held Office for months under theml
Is it necessary to recall to mind that these
dismissed office holders have boosted that
| they nurtured in their hearts fostering
| hatred of the Administration, whilst in the
enjoyment of places of trust and emolu-
ment9 Shall we once more adduce as
proof of the sentiments towards the Presi-
dent and Cabinet entertained by those Of
fce-holders who hold over from the last
administration, the declaration of the Union
that Mr.. English perhaps '9ess deserved
removal than his compeers? Or is any
thing wanting to the evidence which the
columns of the Union daily furnish in
the relentless and vindictive course of the
ex-Commissioner of Patents, that the last
Administration handed down with its Of
fce-holders legacy of ill-will and unchari-
tableness to its successorsl
We once more beg the attention of the
| Cabinet to the resolutions which have been
adopted in the various States by Locofoco
conventions to the reeking columns of
the partisan press, as well elsewhere as
here; to the eagerness with which those
who move hand in their defence is hunt
ed down and denounced; to the miserable
! fabrications which reinvented to impeach
the private character of individual Secre-
taries; to the monstrous espionage over
humble members of the Wing party, whose
movements are falsely imputed to the d.
rection of the Government; to the wanton,
shameless, and scandalous terms in which
the people who triumphed in the last
| Presidential election are scoffed at in the
mass and in detail-for a manifesto of the
manner in which the Opposition has elect
ed to carry on the contest.
In the history of party contentious, in
the rank and offensive personalities which
disfgured the excitements of past election
eering crises, there was nothing equal in
violence and defamation to the scurrility
and SANDER which have been adopted in
cold blood, in sounding the preliminaries
of coming onslaught. There has been
nothing like it, So low, so indecent, so
false, so repugnant to every impulse of
manly sentiment or honorable opposition,
has been the course tracked out by the
Union and its followers, that it is next to
impossible to speak Of that journal without
employing language which soils our col
umns.
Violent and calumnious as the course OF
the Opposition has been, if we believe what
we see published in the prints, and the
evidence of the Union, the Administration
is surrounded by those who sympathize
in what is said Of it by its assailants. We
allege nothing of our own knowledge
we speak upon the evidences furnished
by the Opposition themselves. We desire
the country to know this; and we beg the
Administration to weigh what has beer
written and published to the world, and
decide whether the conduct Of public AFFAIR."
should be entrusted to the friends of the
people who make and unmake Presidents
or TO their enemies.
We shall be pardoned for making on
extracts from the writings Of ofhce-holder
and the opposition press as brief as pos
sible, though perhaps a specimen or two
may not be objected TO as indicating thu
temper Of the rest.
If we were to give proofs Of the dispo
sition Of the Commissioner of Patents
we shall have to republish the Union, o
which he is the editor II has reviled thu
President in every form of insult, from
sneering at him as an imbecile, to denounc
ing him as guilty of conduct which would
"disgrace a gentleman" And OF the
Cabinet il says:
1--WE do not mean 10 insinuate--for our state
mcnts are facts-thst the Department OF the In
terror il the only one under the Government IN
which corruption, fraud, and piiiany have been and
are TO be carried on"
The Ohio Statesman says:
"Among those who follow the profession of arms
falsebood is considered the worst and most unbe
coming Of all vices, and Justification of soldiers
honor stamps him at the vilest OF the vile
az one that an honorable man cannot associate with
without contamination"