The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-05

culinary fields Of Mexico No act which he has himself
done permitted his cabinet to do has tended more 70
Withdraw the confidence and support Of the people from
him than this ungisiul and nsxcusable prescription Of
brave and mertofous men who have risked their lives
and shed their blood for the cause Of their country
$. Another cause is the shameless and inhaman re.
moyal OF poor women who held humble Offices which
enabled them TO support their INDECENT and impoverished
families Never before has the spirit OF party stopped SO
low and been guilty Of acts so scandaous and revolving
as the prescription Of poor women. Under this admin.
istration those females have been removed from post
Offices and from the Office of lighthouse keepers, in order
to make places for unworthy creatures in male attire
who claimed 10 have earned them by their services in
the cause of federalism
8. Another cause is the tamperng with popular cleo.
tons and the ballot box, by irresponsible cabal in this
city, headed and directed by Truman Smith a. senate,
from Connecticut and controlling corruption fund Out
OF which its agents were paid Never before un-
der any previous administration were such open and
pogate attempts made under the sanction Of the cabi
net to influence the elections Of the people and to tamper
with the ballot box Mr.. Smith, having the unlimited
confidence Of Gen. Taylor and the cabinet and striving
with all his might and main to save the administration
ate to 60 into the field offering to the politicians OF
sovereign State Offices If they exerted themselves
and elected Congtessmen to sustain the cabinet This
reprehensibe conduct the part Of Truman Smith and
his coaduors could fail to disgust the people and
arouse their jealousy against the cabinet; and there
fore may be set down another Of the prominent
Of the condemnation Of the administration by the
people
4. Another is the gross nepotsm which has been
practised under this administration. We have only to
point to the appointment to valuable offices Of the rea
ves and friends Of John j. Crenden the relatives and
friends OF Thomas Ewing the relatives and friends OF
Gales and Seaton, and the relatives and friends Of Mr.
Maxwell, collector Of New York. for instances in which
the spirit of neposm has been exemplfed to degree
absolutely sickening.
We might name other OF unpopularity, but we
have assigned sufficient and these causes are radical
and show that both Gen. Taylor and the cabinet are un.
worthy Of the confidence Of the people, and never re-
gain it. They involve moral aberration-so far as the
breach Of pledges is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and po-
ltical favorism, corruption and profigacy, unexampled
in the history Of any administration.
Now, is there any redemption for General Taylor and
the administration Its organs, in view of the appalling
fact that the administration, the end of the first eight
months of its career stands condemned by the popular
Judgment still console themselves with the hope that its
are TO redeem it, and again restore it to the
confidence OF the people. Vain hope indeed. Its
ures! What are they, and what are they to be }
What haze been its measures we have already re-
captuated in the which we have assigned for
its overthrow. And what are to be its future meas
ures So far they have been Swallowed FORTH in
creased expenditures, increased debt increased taxes
the resuscitaton of the tariff of 1912 for the bene.
fit Of the monoposts and the repeal Of the independent
treasury for the benefit Of the spectators and gamblers
of the stock. Are the affections OF the American
people to be wooed back by such measures' Are a
people, whose high destnes only to be developed by
PROGRESSION be suddenly induced halt their majes
tic career and retreat 10 fora shelter against
the spectral dangers which the sinister the selfish con-
jure up from their own wonderful and astounding pros
perityi Are such measures as these to lure back the
American people again to the embraces of an adnstra.
ton which obtained its power by false preenees and has
insolently betrayed the confidence which il thus Sc
cued Never The fate OF this administration is seal
ed Like shattered hulk, which has been wrecked in
some terrible storm, it will float down the tide OF time
to its meried oblivion. Its personnel will cling 10 the
government until their hands wenched from it by the
people in 1852, and then they too will pass away from
the popular thought and memory Or, if they shall be
il will be for the moral which points the
tale OF their singular career and end