The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-14
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
SATURDAY MORNING APRIL IA, ls4e.



duties OF his Office independent of all party ties, and all
party Obligations can be proved in the most satisfactory
manner. In many of his numerous letters he declared
his determination not TO lend himself party schemes in
the event of his election He represented himself
ignorant OF the great questions which had divided po-
cal parties. He freely confessed that he had been for
forty years in the camp and had been prevented by his
official duties from forming defnitive opinions on po
cal Subjects and he excused himself, late his
Allison letter, from answering questions by representing
his views crule and undigested. He conended
that he would look to the constitution alone as his
guide, and would not commit himself TO the peculiar
views of any particular portion of the people. He de-
clared himself perfectly willing to receive the nomination
from wings, democrats, nativists. He even stated
his willingness to accept the nomination of the Baltimore
Convention. By these means he obtained the sufrages
only of the wings and of The native Americans but of
many democrats who eposed full faith and credit in his
repeated promises to hold himself aloof from party
schemes and party projects. He elected; and now
that he is the Chief Magistrate of the United States, all
these things TO have faded from the remembrance
of his friends and advisers If appearances
than usually deceptive, his administration has itself
into the of the wings, and made cause
with them with their party, and personal aspirations
His cabinet is wing and under his auspices, yet perhaps
with his full knowledge that cabinet appears 10 be
busy in rghtng the alleged wrongs which the fedealiss
had sustained from the democrats in bygone times.
Both the judges and the exccutoners are party men
and under the name of reform, and under the cloak
of justice, they will carry the doctrine of proscrp
ton most wrongfuly, unless General Taylor has the
moral frmness arrest and restrain them. The follow
ing extracts from the correspondence OF the Pittsburg
Gazette paper devoted to the wings and to the admin
s,raton, show that the work has already been COM
menced in good earnest
WAsHrNGroN April 4, 1si9.
The work Of retribution and reformation is going
pidy. considerable number of removals and appoint
have been made to-day and it is well understood
that preparing. Mr.. Warren, the new head Of
the appointing bureau in the Post Office Department. is
doing his work thoroughly expeditlousy, and neatly
Even the democrats that he doing the business hand
somely up Very few of them foolish regard the
groans and mprecaons of the Union these changes
with anything but mockery. They laugh at it well
acted farce They know that their party processes pro
scripton part of its political religon-hat it is per-
ha the only of its professions of principles that OBJ
and that his tina, it any
any cause departs from
The number Of new appointments during the present
month will ofcourse be much larger than during the
because Mr. Warren has his hands in, and is in the
way to ascertain more readily than at first.
1t seems to be becoming understood upon both sides
that wherever removals are made vacancies occur,
wings will be appointed.
In connexon with these predictions, are the following
extracts from the Philadelphia News of Wednesday,
The pharsaical disposition of the ocofoco press
strikngy exhibited than in the ridiculous and
senseles of rption, which it eudeavorng
raise with the and absurd hope of lettering the
administration from carrying out the expressed will of the
people, whose decision in November last less
Judgment of condemnation against the then in power
,F tb.1,t
the country and locooso hypocrisy, mani
fest than then, shows how sound and just that judg-
ment.
1t be supposed by any in his senses that
the whom the people have condemned as unworthy
be retained in their present positions the exclusion
of those belonging to the great party now in the ascenden
cy. Those who are loudes in their denunciations OF
the administration for making removals, would laugh
the folly Of such The administration has made
good beginning aud but give uerance
the united wing sentiment of the country, when say
will not the work thus well begun, until all the offices
now filled by Drawing locoiocos are filed by
are honest and competent and possessing sound principles
Since these extracts were penned, many names have
been added TO hel of the prescribed victims So rapid
ly has the work gone on, especially in the Post
Office Department. that unless it be speedily arrested we
have fallen upon times of poscrpon-yea of party pro-
supplemented on by the authority of party Presi-
dent the like TO which has been permitted by any
party chief, except during the days of Mr. Granger Yet
General Taylor stands pledged before the county and
before the world to know difference between wings
and democrats. He stands pledged to use the gullo-
tine. He has promised and again. all the way
from Monterey the White House, that he would look
only TO the constitution, and have nothing do with the
professed righng of party wrongs We annex some of
these pledges scattered through his many letters in order
that the people may the he gave and that
they may know by the conduct of his administration
whether it has abused their confidence and obtained their
sufrages by false pretences:
In permit myself to be the candidate of ann
party, yield myself to party chemes( James W.
Tdyor)
IcW not be the candidate of any party or clique and
should the nation at large seek place chair of
the chief magistracy, the good Of all parties and the national
good wod be great and absorbing to a cifi
zen Of Lansingbmg)
Should occupy the White House. it must be bv
the spontaneous of the people, and by no act of
mne that could go into the Office untrammelled and
be the Chief Magistrate of the people, and of party
(Lettcr to Edpard Delonev)
erer I'll that high oBee, it be untrarnpeHed NTH
parry obligations interests of any kind and under none
but those which the constitution and the high interests of
the nation at large most seriously and soemny demand
(Lctfer to Peter Sken Smuh)
am NOT cHtng 10 be The candidate of ann parv 10 ,sdee
myself to any political creed that which springs directly
from the constitution and the bes, and pa mount
the country and which they soemny demand If elect,
ed TO the presidential office, without any agency
Oh my own ut Will be with my