The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-07-21
T.st,es or IN. Adnlnl..r.s,on.

The wing press continues to assa us for daring to
ragn the acts OF the present administration Let them
pour out their abuse upon headswe are perfectly
Indifferent to their violence or their scurility We mean
to discharge duty fearless Of all consequences The
misfortune is, not that complain of their acts but thai
they give such just cause for complaints We have
arraigned them for various misdemeanors; and con
tnue mpeach Them because they continue their trans
gressions We have impeached them for violating their
pledges, and for continuing uneeling and unprece-
dented course of prescription. Who deny this
complaint Victim after victim has been sacrificed daily
almost hourly without cause, according to their own
confession See the Of the clerks Of the Post Office
Department, and the Of Mr. English. in this days
paper These gentlemen removed because they are
democrats who have discharged their duties with hon.
esty capacity and fidelity The Swiss organ lost all caste
for frank dealing and integrity OF purpose. when it
sorted to the fmsest Of all possible excuses and at
tempted excuse Gen. Taylor for violating his pledges,
because they were all cancelled by the declarations which
were made in his name by the delegates Of Louisiana.
We have charged the President with the grossest
inexperience and the most signal incapacy. Who
doubts this, when he hears of his own declarations
that he unable to friend from dismisson,
or to appoint another to ofice-who knows his habits
who listens to the tone Of his conversaon-and who
reads his letter to Mr. Grandh-atd who has the most
distant glimmerng Of the confused and irresponsible
manner in which his cabinet matters are conducted
We have charged the administration with sending of
Indian agents to California without law, and Of sanction
ing in an unprecedented manner the most wasefu and
expensive disbursements through the Quartermasters
department We have called for the accounts Of these
expenses; and we shall only cease to call when they
are voluntarily published by those who control the
information, or when the Congress OF the United States
themselves shall make imperative call for the accounts
We have charged il with allowing Indian claims Of
large amount which had been rejected by the preceding
administration and now allowed because they press
ed by favortes whom they wished to serve, or by MEM
bers of Congress whom they desired to obge. These
cases know will startle the country when they
put forth in all their enormy These officers have gone
too far now to retreat many respects and YET the de-
veiopments OF the Union have so far contributed to
alarm them as to prevent their yielding other favors to
those who asked and expected them
Witnessing the scenes which are going on before our
eyes-hearng the facts which are revealed to about
the fearful working OF the machinery operating in
the upon such grounds as we be-
leve to be Just, and urged by abuses which
not justify, and will not conceal what we for the
miserable ppan sophsms Of the organs, their equiv
ocal contradictions! What care we for the combined
abuse of the wing press' We have encountered such
consequences BEFORE and have been frightened
from our proprety We have gone to do our duty in
the spirit which became the free editors Of free press.
and we shall continue to discharge duty with the
same determination, Indifferent TO threats, to abuse, to
every other consideration but the performance Of duty
Upon this ground we stand-uPon this we appeal to a
free people