The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-23

honest you might nave been IN making your
pledges, that you would be permitted by your
keepers, and the hungry minions by which you
are surrounded, to carry them out in practice
have the honor to be, very respectfully, Sc,
JNO. A. ENGLISH
z. TAYLoR,
President of the United States.
We beg our readers to mark well the
language of the above letter to ponder its
tone of deliberate insult to remember that
Mr.. English in substance boasts, that dur
ing the five months he held Office under
the Administration he entertained the feel
ings therein typifed and then consider
the fact that the Union declares that no
one perhaps less DESCRIBED to be dismissed
than he. The Union has been long
enough here to know what the sentiments
and feelings Of the office holders, who hold
over from the last administration, are
towards the President and his Cabinet !;
and one of them has the advantage, in
this behalf, of having belonged to that
class of our fellow-ci citizens. Itmay speak
partly from knowledge on this point !;
though, in the hope that some Of them are
more charitable in their thoughts than the
author of the letter under consideration,
we must say the Union is as lame wit
ness for, as it is against, an individual. Be
that as it may, our business is with the
letter and numerous predecessors of the
same stamp-some of them even more
Objectionable than the one before us.
1t is proper to state here that, notwith-
standing all the defamation and denuncia-
ton about prescription with which the
public have been drugged, we are in
formed and believe that there are yet ten
Locofocos to one Wing in the various
public Offices of the country. The most
rigorous Interpretation of the anti-pro-
scriptive doctrine would at least assign to
the predominant party an equal share of
the Offices. This equitable, Jeffersonian
standard has not been approached yet in
the tardy process of equalization adopted
by the Administration. This mattered
not to the Opposition, who commenced their
anathemas when some of the Secretaries
appointed to Offices of the most confden-
tial trust persons known to them. They
began the outcry without cause, and so
continue it.
We desire now to ask the people of this
country, men of common sense and com
mon candor, if an administration which
surrounds itself, or permits itself to be
surrounded, by agents and officers enter
tanning towards it the feelings and opinions
developed in Mr.. ENGLIsH's letter-and
he least deserving of all Of being removed
will not inevitably miscarry nay, more,
will it not deserve to miscarry Take the
extract from Mr.. THoMpsoN's letter first
appended, and then the entire effusion of
Mr.. ENGLISH consider them in connexion
with others of the same sort, and the dis
tillations of bitterness daily trickling from
the pen of the ex-Commissioner of Patents
into the columns of the Union-weighing
the facts simply and collectively with the
declaration of the Union that no one less
deserved to be removed than Mr.. ENGLISH
we ask again, calmly and seriously of the
American people, with such materials
to execute the policy of the Government,
how is it possible for an Administration to
succeed Abandoning the doctrine of
equalization, looking with an eye single to
the execution OF the popular will, as
evinced in the result of the Presidential
elections, we repeat the question, can any
administration get along with such hostile,
illiberal and repugnant agents
We should like to know the opinion of
the people who elected General TAYLOR
upon this presentation Of facts. Every
one knows that in private life, the best of
men, acting under prejudices and prepos-
sessions, do grievous wrong. In politics
it is worse; and can any one, holding the
opinions of Mr.. THOMPSON and Mr.. ENG
LIsH, do justice to the Administration, the
President, or the people who elected him
President ! Yet Mr.. ENGLISH, the Union
informs us, "less deserved" to be dismiss
ed than his associates of the same party.
Do the people desire to see the Presi-
dent of the United States surrounded by
officials whose hearts are filled with Bit
terness towards him, and whose speech is
INSULT We ask these questions in serious
mood.
Are we mistaken in what their reply