Washington telegraph., 1849-10-03
From the Republac.
Appointments and Disappointments.


howl like scalded dogs over the removals
from Office, as if the twenty millions of
American citizens who compose our re-
public care fig because five thousand
John Does have been turned out Of offices,
and five thousand John Smiths have been
put in their places. 1t is important for
the proper administration of affairs that
the few office-holders should be disposed
to unite cordially in sustaining the Gov
ernmenL and not conspiring to thwart it's
operations. This the public interests re-
quire, Beyond this all is mere matter of
moonshne. In nine cases out of ten,
probably, the offices were given by the
Locofocos to men who did not deserve
them, and it is probable that the present
Administration will bestOW many ap-
pointments on the pushing and importu-
nate, instead of the well-deserving. But
what does it all amount to! Five thou
sand John Smiths out of Office cannot
overthrow the Administration, any more
than five thousand John Does in office
can sustain it. The outs can work harder
because the latter are not expected 10
interfere in elections, and they are apt to
lose all interest in affairs the moment they
are comfortably bestowed themselves
But the American people did not accom-
plish the political revolution of 1S48 be-
cause Of the offices; and so far from sym
pathizing with the disma. outcrles OF the
opposition over the few removals that
have taken place, they would be better
RI nh
sweep of offices. and making fresh start,
than by any other course,
The Administration is placed between
two fires in this matter of appointments.
Here stand the opposition and ghastly
band of decapitaEed Observation-Disclosures
coco
'iGh0sts that in battle were slain,
And unburied remain,
4nglorious on the plain.
On the other side are the live Wings
flesh and blood-bone and sinew. Both
are hesetting the Administration. The
Locofocos, with and without heads, pur-
sue the Cabinet with imprecations for the
use of the guillotine; while the WHIGs
attribute all WHIG miscarriages 20 the
fact that the Cabinet have not done their
duty in this behalf. True enough it is
that many bitter and odious Locofocos
continue in Office to this day, whom no
Wing expected to see survive twenty-four
hours after the appointment Of the heads
of Departments. True enough it is that
this gives great dissatisfaction to many
of our truest and best friends-but they
should remember that there may be Cir
cumstapces which we know nothing
about, that would perhaps satisfactorily
account for what now seems inexplicable.
Our friends must have patience. For our
own part we must confess that we had
rather any time stand a volley from Loco
focos for OVERRIDING our duty, than shot
from WHIG for coming tardily off -
but different minds are differently con-
stituted We have faith, however, that
the only men destined to be disappointed
in the Administration are the Locofocos,
Since the opposition have been crying for
nothing, we think they ought to have
something to cry for. Much yet remains
to be done before the equalization of Off
oes is accomplished which will furnish
the starting point for removal for cause.
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TOUCH STORY OF AN Ox.-A correspond
ent of the Spirit of the Times tells a
wonderful feat of an OK down in New
Hampshire. The farmer who owned this
animal, could not keep him out OF the
barn. The tarnal critter would undo the
button Oh the barn door, and open the
grain boxes, and get up into the hay
NOW, and commit all sorts of devastation.
He tried all manners of ways to fasten
his barn door, but the OK would circum
vent him. At last he made a large but
ton, out of piece of hardwood scantlin',
got ladder, and fixed the button right
over the top of the barn door. So he
walks into the house, and told his folks
what he had done, tand now,' said he,
L guess old Brim won't get into that
barn again in hurry His words were
scar cely out of his mouth when he heard
dreadful poundin' out in the barn yard.
+ He run to the winder, and what do you
'spose he saw? Why. the OK had seen
him fix the button, and KNOWN he
couldn't never reach it, he had tuck up
two year old Bull that was runnin' in
the yard, and held him up, and actually
made that innocent critter turn the button
for him.!