The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-18
Three Days' Work.

change our key and abandon oucries about pro-
scHption. He kindly admits that the ami admins'ra-
on journals are "making the most OF their resources
and therefore, in the kind spirit in which ne ad-
vised the democrats the other day TO dissolve their party
he now advises us to Complaints and expos
tulauons at the changes made in the public Offices
We on our part recommend to the American to abandon
its grstuous and thankless Office of advising the demo
cratic party They will scarcely take his counsel par
cuarly after the miserable attempt it has made TO dodge
the explanation which its first recommendation called for
We asked him why the Vmginans should dissolve their
party and 60 over to General Taylor' Would the Gen
era veto the Wilmot Provso' We repeated the ques-
ton; and not an answer have we been able to wiring
from him. man who goes out Of h.s way to advise
his opponents, ought at least to give some reasons
for his opinions; but he gave none that were dis
tinctly Ineligible. We charged him with lodging the
question, and repeated it: Were to understand
that General Taylor is 10 veto the Wilmot Provi-
So We deied him to answer; but not syllable
has escaped his lips And yet he now affects to
advise about the course OF our paper He would
have abandon all clamor against the prescriptions
of the present moderate party President" We will
abate our structures they abandon their pro
scriptons. But when to look fer this modera-
ons AS the daughters of the horsel eech"
satisfied with blood-as the office holders
haunt the Secretaries for public plumber as soon
there is nothing TO give and nothing to take away.
We know the is continually falling although do
not always its operation. They working it in
the dark. Hundreds of victims executed in the
marble mansion OF this city, Of whose fate are
profoundly ignorant, until gossping wing let's
out the secret, until democratic press
respondent at a distance reports in detail the names
of the victims To contingency of this sort
indebted for the following revelation
We publish below the names OF forty. seven appoint
ments which were made by the Post Office Department in
the single State of New York. the 9TH 10TH and 18th
Of this month The list s furnished by the Washington
correspondent OF the ALBANY Journal" (perhaps by Mr.
Weed himself, who has been visit to this city. to
assist in the direction of the axe We confident thai
none Of the which contains have been published
before in the Union. About month since the National
Whig-one of the temporary organs of the adminstra-
ton--published the appointments and removals which
had been made by Mr. Colamer, with the advice of his
Fiu Aohates, Fitz Henry Warren, and the country had
the satisfaction melancholy was, of understanding the
vndctive policy of the Post Office Department But the
National Integencer rebuked the ocousness Of its mex
perienced aborer the administration ranks, tending
lie estimation by exhibiting the eyes of the people the
roll of the victims of this meek and lowly -partysm.
The National Wing then had its private 1t was
advised that such things ought not to be exposed before
the proane eyes of the people by the friends of General
Taylor; and. presto change! Immediately this important
information was withheld by the organs OF those who
.'shrink from no responsibility" We knew at the time
and doubtless the country knew, that the work was
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mysterious secrecy which surrounded it. We sat
sied that, removed from the public gaze, Ftz Henry
Warren doing his bloody work in the privacy OF the
Post Office Department. and from time to time nforma
ton OF his acts reached us, either from correspondents
or from the various portions of the country through the
public press But confess not altogether
prepared for the long list of the prescribed which
publish below. The personal integrity of the Seconc
Assistant Postmaster General had nsuticeny shaker
by the testimony of witnesses in Massachusetts, and hi
political unscrupulousness sufficiently notorious ir
the northwest, to give every that he would
be restrained by considerations either of private public
morality. Yet we did not suspect that his malice bitte
might be, active as to advise the removal IL
single State OF foryfour officers in the short space
three days If the list could be extended to the othe
twenty nine States Of the Union, could then have
some idea of the immense amount of prescription Il
which the partisan malice of a party administration
would extend ils Ufas influence. Is it possible that thu
subalterns shall long permitted to execute their win
dictive work under the authority of one who has mo
emies to punish"
NEW APPoNrMKNrs.-mAY g.
DansviIe, L;pingson county-Charles E. Lamport, pic
Merrick Brown removed
Liponsa Livingston eo.ntyAndrew Sill, uics Josiah
| Haniton nfaaisox coxaty.-Samuel B. Russell, vie.
Thomas S. Mott, removed
DfiHporf, Chenmng couay.-Joseph @. Stow, rice Gber
Mills, removed. - 49,
| Auom, LipinSston eomntv.-Wm. A. Firman. pice VIM
c. Hawley, removed
Caledonia, Livingston cosnty.-G. Blakeseo, vce Au
gustus Hotchkn, removed
C"yerpMe. Living'to" e0""ty-N' L. Bowman rice Ly
man Olel, removed
| Fotc.erspiHs Liungston county.-John P. Casey, pic
William Frazee, removed 49,
Nunda, Liuimgson eo.nty.-Edgar M. Brown, vice Jas
| Swa in, removed
RlshpiRe Ontario connty.-Abjah Otis, vice P. Vorce
removed.
Sauge,tiu, User cou~y-Gcorgc M Gay, vice E. J. Nc
Carthy removed.
Romdout Ulster co.nty-John Huder, vice Edward Suy
dam, removed.
| Hapana, Che,nnng couMy-Georgo v. Hitchcock, pic
James Pine, removed
H. nslock Lake, Ltvngston comnty.-Edward II. G. Mea
cheur, pics ELIJAH Stevens, removed.
Rock Stream Yates county.-Hiram A. Newcomb rice
w. Barnes, removed.
Benton, Ya,ss coxAty.-Ben Coddington, jr pics M.