The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-02
DAILY NATIONAL WING.
From the 81. Louis Republican,
THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMAs-
TER GENERAL.

Washington-Colonel Warren, of lowa--is
certainly the best abused man in the nation.
But we venture the prophecy, that Just IN
proportion as he deyotes himself TO, and per-
seyeres in, the performance oil his ofhicial
duties, without needing the torrents OF abuse
which are showered upon him, VIII the pun
lie mind be certain TO conclude tha' ne IS
not obnoxious to the oallmnles OF ms che-
mics and we hazard little more IN saying,
that he will come out Of this cruel and VIM
,lictiye warfare with honor 10 himself, and
advantage to the country
Colonel Warren fills an office which, il
The duties be correctly performed, must eS-
cite the keenes, sense Of hatred on the part
II those who have 50 long abused the trust,
and are now discarded from the public SER
vice This is the first and exciting cause
III the malignity which assails him, by con-
eerted action, from every ultra Locoioco
paper in the country II Col. w had been
called to occupy any other position than that
which brings him in contact with men who
have prostituted their Offices TO keep then
party and themselves in power-il he could,
now, shut his eyes to the iniqulties OF which
the party have been guilty, and about which
there has been SO little concealment that
every man Of ordinary intelligence is ia
miliar with them---it is altogether probable
that his private and his public life would
nevef have been alluded to, or stigmatzed
by the breath Of calumny, as il has been.
But il became obvious 10 the Washington
Union--and the other party papers immedi-
ately joined in the cry-that il was abso-
lately necessary 10 put stop to any search
mp inquiry, such as Col Warren was likely
to institute, into the composition OF the seq
enteen thousand postmasters coming more
directly under his supervision, an hence the
malicious assaults upon his reputation, II
he could be deferred by these means from
doing his duty, great point was gained I,
or, II his attention could be diverted from
duty 10 the country, by supposed necessity
10 meet his enemies IN a newspaper contro-
yersy, the purpose was almost equally as
well answered Time would be thereby
gained, TO array the Office holders in solid
phalanx against the action OF the Admins
tration on this or any other question and
nothing would be easier--so these men seem
TO have argued than TO bring unpopularity
and disgrace upon Gen Taylor's Admins
tration Better stil would il be for them,
#, by this wholesale abuse OF subordinate,
they could deter the President himself from
the performance Of his duty, in dismissing
corrupt men from Office Fortunately, as
we think, they have mistaken their man, in
the ono case, as they will assuredly find they
are mistaken in the other, The corruptions
engendered, by twenty odd years Of mis-
y rule--the system by which the Office olders
have banded themselves together, in every
State and county in the Union, to perpet-
: late their power, in defiance Of the people
are to be exposed and exploded; and the
sarest way to effect this object, and to re-
generate the Government, is to take the
power from the hands Of those who have
abused it, and 10 confer it upon those who
give promise Of doing better If the re-
concentrations Of Colonel Warren can assist
IN carrying ont this great object, il will be
done, although the Union, and its satellites,
pay fill their columns with personal invec-
tive and uniounded calumnies. He never
yet has filnched from tie performance Of a
duty, and he will not do il now, when he
knows the motives which actuate those who
traduce him, and when satisfied, as he must
be, that the offices oil the Government can
be purified in no other way than that which
IS now IN progress, and which so annoy the
Locofocos because it happens 10 operate on
them exclusively. We might here say, by
way Of parenthesis, as we'll as in conclusion,
that when Mr. Polk dismissed more than a
hundred and forty Wings from Office at
Washington, in the first month OF his Ad-
ministration, and when some Of the friends
OF these men complained Of the treatment
thus extended to them, and they were in
sultingly told-ii not by the President, by
his mlnions Let them 90 10 morkn in
new employments, and thus support their
families-the Locoiocos should be the last
men TO say word against the application
Of this rule 10 them While We do not IN
tend TO insult those who have been subject
ed to their own strict doctrine, we cannot
help thinking that there is retributive JUS
tee at work in this thing, which il is not
uncharitable to admire, however much it
may try the tempero! those who have been
in Office all their lives
Colonel Warren succeeded w J Brown
III the appointment office. at Washington,
and it is well enough. TO let the people nm
derstand the motives which governed that
iunctlonary IN appointments;o office. Here
IS letter from him, addressed 10 Loco
toco, who, il seems, had abandoned the par
ty, and was removed for this cause
ArpoMrarsT orricr, p. o. DrrARTNrar,
July &c, 1886
SIR: Your letter has been received and
submitted to the Postmaster General. |
think your reasons for abandoning the De-
mocratic party wholly unsatisfactory. The
Postmaster General has heretofore refused
to listen to applicants for the removal Of
postmasters for such reasons But the par
~ 10 which you are now attached having
taken ground against the Administration,
and the regular nominee Of the party ior
President, do not see how the Admins