The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-13

emitting Mr. Coamer and including Gen. Taylor. All
district attorneys marshals and deputy marshas the
land office, registers of public lands and receivers OF pub
lie moneys in payment for lands pension Offices and pen
sion agents the Indian bureau with Indian agents and
sub-agents the Patent Office; surveyors and surveyors
generaa under his CONTROL and he has the power
of appointment and removal them all. This for
midabe power, like that of the Postmaster General,
should surely be ntrused of high personal and
political characterize one who well known to the
people of the whole country for his commanding tai
ents and his lofty virtues, for his national sympa-
thes, for his freedom from local prejudices, from
selfish ambition, and from an intriguing spirit The
whole country had right to think that such man,
| If he could be found in the ranks of the admin
straton, should be placed over the Department of
the Interior If such man could not be found, then
both the North and the South, differing from each other
as they do with questions of grave import unsettled be-
tween Them had right require that the head of the
Department OF the Interior should not come from the
same section of the Union with the Postmaster Gene
raj These two formidable and controlling departments
charged with the regulation of our internal affairs, should
not be given to the North along with the Treasury De-
partment, the Third in power and patronage Every pre-
caution should have been taken to prevent combination
overlook these obvious considerations. He has given
the Post Office Department TO Jacob Collamer, of YER
mont-a known abolitionist, whose political aspirations
would have been well satisfied with bureau appoint
ment in the War or Navy Department And he has
fit to give the Department OF the Interior to Thomas Ew
ing, of Ohio, who enierains the abolition sent-
mens with Mr.. Collamer-a of no fame a states
man and sectional in his views and feengs-an
Tho haca
for nothing but party cruelty and party vindlcgeness
1t would be difficult to prevent coalition between the
heads Of the Department OF the Interior and of the General
Post Office under any circumstances. Nothing but firm
and experienced statesman as Chief Magistrate, well
skilled in civil affairs, great personal or sectional re-
pulson between the heads of those departments. could
prevent an offensive and defensive alliance between
them But we have in the presidential chair man
unknown to the civil history Of the country, and
utterly destitute Of experience, if not weak and in
efficient The circumstances which surround us make
a union between Ewing and Collamer natural
sequence of their respective positions. They from
the same section of the Union party spirit the
form of party and maligny with them both; they
are bound together by hatred of one section of
the Union and common desire to break down IFS lnfu
ence and destroy its institutions Ewing has already
obstacle to the peace and happiness of people, and
the continuance of the Union itself No doubts that
Colamer approved his keeping open the slavery
agitation; and doubt that their united power
and patronage will be used TO carry out abolition prnc
pes and even to break down the influence of the south
ern members of the cabinet and give tone and character
to General Tayors administration. Already his pledges
of political moderation and orbeaance have been severed
n r f.. T. A. r.
three months, he who had promised oblerate party
lines and party divisions has increased the bitterness Of
party feeling, has carried party prescription and party
vindicveness beyond all precedents to be found in
history and finds himself at the head of admins
traton which bears not his impress, hut the impress Of
Thomas Ewing and Jacob Collame There is power in
the cabinet which thwart such coalition The amb
ous views of the Secretary of State make him lis natural
ally rather than its foe He cannot leopard his hopes of
the succession by encounterng such enemes and events
already indicate that he desires TO gain their good will by
subservency rather than TO awaken their enmity by OPP
position The Secretary of the Treasury coming from
the same section of the Union with the Secretary OF the
Interior and the Postmaster General, to have fol-
lowed the example OF the Secretary of State; for in all
the cabinet transactions which have the public eye,
he and Mr.. Clayton have been fosnd voting with Mr..
Ewing and Mr. Collamcr This fact renders the oppos
ton of the other three members of the cabneJohnson,
Preston and Carbohydrates and unavailing Even
admitting that they had the mental ability to discover the
plots and anticipate the designs Of the coalition their pa
tronage and influence would be inadequate for such
ct, and they would be voted down and parayzed in the
cabinet Thus is the southern portion of the Union de-
prived by southern President, Of all control over the
policy of the administration by such division of power
as must mpart dangerous and sectional character to
the government. 7
We trust that this subject will be correctly understood
and that the Of the future may not make
sary, from motives of safety and security, that new
issue shall be brought before the people, requiring the
utter exngushment of department which, under suit
able notifications might be made conducive to the pub
lie interests The President has committed unpar-
donable blundcr-to call it by harsher namc-in his
distribution of the departments; bunder which will,
in all human probability, be prolific of wrong and injus
ticc. But cannot do otherwise than hope that the
representatives of the people will open their eyes to the
spectacle which is now exhibited and that they will be
sensible of the dangers which threaten the country If
this hope be well founded General Taylor may have
willingly conferred benefit on the Union by attracting
public suspicion the Department OF the Interior which