The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-11-25

unu amer the revolution Of 1851 Understood even
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| When men OF good character and pure intentions
who are extensively known and respected for their pub
nc and private vlrtues-happen to occupy the high sta
tons Of government the moral influence Of their
and the political influence oil their POSITIONS impart de-
served popularity to their opinions and conduct The
errors OF such menand il is the lot OF humanity TO
become dangerous Just ia proportion to their acknow
their opinions and are, therefore, always believed to be
sincere in their actions Their opinions measures and
acts being always aboveboar and openly ayowed the
means OF detecting their errors OF judgment and policy
ever open to the people; and never long in the
ascendant when truth is left free to combat and expose
it The case, however, is wholly different with bad men,
such as compose majority OF the present administration
They have no character such as men respecno moral
influence in any community where they known
Their opinions and measures derive authority from
their names They may even be admitted to be men of
superior talents admission greatly beyond the truth,
as far the cabinet is in questonand their known po
stances only make the world the more suspicious Of their
honesty and sincerity Of purpose Hence il has been
the policy Of such menand they adopt il by intuition
chief, but wholly mpotent for good They devise
schemes, inrgues. and plans but invariably execute
their purposes by tools and by indrecton The secret
Mudd the secret association Of spies In this city who sue
ceeded to the functions Of the late Rough and Ready Club
and others who could be named by the present cabinet
or at least by the controlling members OF it. instances
OF the manner in which bad men in high places con.
scious OF their own unpopuarity, endeavor to influence
and control public opinion Through such agencies un
constantly Perpeated in the grosses frauds the bal
ot-box and the rights OF the people Through the
10 Office BEEN
notorious. They have not been hid from democratic
scrutiny. and will have to be reckoned for in due time
It will be remembered that when the present federal
teemed with volumes Of advice 10 Cen Taylor and those
ne had called to his cabinet II happened, il is al
ways likely to do in such cases. that there scarcely
single wing newspaper in the Union, however obscure
which had not some owner some editor some credi-
tor connected with some having its sole control
who desired and demanded some office, pro6ta-
Bile job from the new administration Some of the large
papers had numerous editors, travelling and Washington
correspondents, who were hungry and starving for Office
MSs q men were poor
fight on any side for little paywith pretensons to
the character Of decent men Of letters They were all
peniteniiary down to the smallest cierIship whatever
they could get twas only second hand coat
perfect Godsend It was the higher agency Of the edi-
and Cities aided by the despicabe tribe just named who
have had the chief influence in pushing the cabinet to
the extreme and disgraceul measures Of prescription to
wing editors WRITER'S scbbers, bellers, and spies,
nected with the press, wanted Offices and unless Gen.
Taylor could be made TO alsy his pledges and the cab
likely to Be no places for them Ewing. coiamsr. Clay.
ton and Meredith were anxious and ready to begin the
work-some OF them, like Ewing, TO put money in the
purses OF his family and pets and others to gain and
make strength for themselves for future in the States
they from Not Of them cared fig for the rep
Itaon Of the inbecile President Selfshness was at
the bottom OF their motives In the scramble, Ew.
ing and Governor Crittenden for putting Ewing and
Clayton in the cabinet. have BEEN, in a family way,
the largest benehciaries. The universal cry OF the
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secretly intended to operate for the benefit OF those
who raised the clamor, was imposed on General Tay
for the voice of the people-for thu voice of the
whole wing party, at least Shut up in the White House,
and wholly ignorant of the state of public opinion in the
country, the old man, scol he was indicted into
Office, gave up the whole matter TO his Secretaries
majority OF these were rampant malignant prescription,
his Office and means Of feeding and clothing his family,
Murat or Robespiere did in shedding the blood
OF a Girendist Under the noise and influence OF the
camor thus raised and necessarily kept up, hundreds and
hundreds-when look into the departments in this
city and the custom houses land offices, and post oices
in the States. we may well say multiplied hundreds-of
ten into Office. Some have obtained places OF respecta-
bilty and trust far beyond their vaines hopes Men
unfit in clerical qualifications and character to be trusted
appointed to government cierkships Of the highest
responsibity-paces for which the whole past tenor
Of their lives and conduct had rendered them wholly
unfit To responsible, complicated accounting desks,
| and in out-of.door agencies, men have been ap
pointed whom no careful man would trust TO carry a
purse Of uncouned money from Pennsy avenue to
one OF the city banks Now such is the in which
the departments and bureaus are, shameu degree.
filled in this city, that you cannot look into one OF them
without finding desks formerly occupied by old, worthy,
and highly qualified men, occupied by some OF this
spawn OF the corupons oil those in power. as that
great and good man. Robert Hall, calls Them and who
have been shed up from the wing press-nany of them
debauched degraded, ignorant, dissipated men, who
have had claim or recommendation TO ofice. ex-
cept in the single Circumstance OF their having been,
| newspaper press. They generally insensible oil
the discreditable and low nature Of their former pur-
suits and present engagements, pies upon the con-
versatons and actions OF public men, intended, when
collected and imbodied, 10 be worked up into trashy
letters for wing papers, and all for pttance OF
pay Many OF them make no secret OF their present
engagements correspondents OF newspapers doubtless
OF duty while they fed clothed, lodged and iquored
at the expense OF the public treasury To what ends can
public patronage be disgracefully couupty dis
penscd than such these Let II be remembered, how
ever that excellent appointments have been made
but they are few and far between--not one OF them
however by translation from the wing press.
Il is perfectly certain, that under no former admnisra
the Offices at Washington and in the custom. houses ia
the cities, who BY occupation partisan scrbbers and
libeers as are now in Office under the pure adminstra
ton of Zachary the Last One OF the results OF the
cess OF these harpies, the universal contempt nit
which the administration is gradually sinking in the est
nation OF all soberminded and honorable men OF all par
ties Nothing heretofore has ever lessened the dignity
the executive station much the degrading grouni
upon which these appointments have been made In Al
past time, under every administration when vacant ON
ces were TO be filed, appointments to new oces made
some prudent regard-often very strict regard-wa