The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-10

port be indeed correct, the people pay know at once
what he meant when he said that he would not be the
President of party; that he had enemies to pun
ish--no friends TO reward Parties are held together
by principles of public policy. Yet here the Presi
dent substantially says that he cares not for them
that he knows them not; but that he adopts diff
eren rule for the distribution oil his avors He goes for
his suppoers-or those who have given him their sweet
voices-and they shall not go without their reward
There will be no removals for opinions sake Opinions
it seems, nothing with the new dynasty Let the
applicant for Office be whig democrat or nave-ei his
principles be OF any shade compexion-it matters not
that his ballot of the right hue al the presidential
election, and duly deposited on the 9TH of Novem-
Der for Zachary Taylor and Willard Fillmore That fact
is he thing needful," and, like charity il coveret
multitude of sins" Parties based principles of con-
stuona construction and views of public policy are to
be prescribed by this administration, and the support
Of the is to be the creed OF the dispense
ton "Gurth the born thra of Cedric the Saxon" mus
be written the collars OF those who keep the herds OF
the no party party
There is something noble in men banding themselves
together from principles which they believe to
be conducive TO the public good; but when they unite
without principles and without creed in order to sus
tain MAN, that lie may feed them from the public trea
sury, the prospect be viewed only with disgust min
gled with modification. The wing party has abandoned
its old creed has aside its old leaders, and has taken
up military cheftan as its embodiment of princi
Pies He to appreciate fully their want of poca
faith for he has committed himself to no line OF policy
and tells them that in the distribution of Offices he will
'eneapor to giusto each decisions Of SUPPORTERS
their share of the burden Of public duty according to then
proportion and numbers, so fur as he could ascertain
them" They are to be ranged in divisions, possible, and
numbered and the spos be divided among them pro
rata, by the rules OF arithmetic. All may come to the
muster and claim place who supported Taylor ant
Fillmore Personal SERVICE them is TO be the tenure
and we presume that the value of the service will be
taken into consideration. If we be right in this position
many men who have struggled under the lead of Harry
of the West through sunshine and through storm, fol
twenty years. who have borne the heat and burden Of
the day in many herce encounter, will not be as much
troubled with the burden of public duty under the
administration, as those wings who earlier and
were most active in the support Of the President The
theory of distributing Offices among his supporters will
thus not only off the dissenting democrats from office
but make distinction between the wings themselves
We know not by what species OF political statistics the
number and proportion of each class of supporters is e
be ascerained although by that ratio the Offices &c
be distributed. The reporter of the Generals speech
views