The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-27

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Party Distribution OF Offices la Washington.
The National lntelgencer of the 10th instant contain
ed the following article. copied from the New York Jour
nal of Commerce:
Correspondence o the Journal of Commercial
WASHINGTON, April IL.
Our democratic friends unreasonable. They to
think that they born suck treasury pap and that To
deprive them of it the order OF nature The
faces they make Than those of weaving infants
They have got the idea that the government made to
give them Offices and they have certainly had them all
since 1901, when Jefferson elected. party which
embraced the responsibility, nor monopoized the
social influence OF the county have laid claim to all the
profits OF the government have little doubt ha with the
exception of brief interval here and there their demand
will be complied with.
l have deemed it, however, the peculiar mission
of this administration pamper the sordid appetite for
spoils that the democrats have, party, INDUCED in
Some removals made yesterday, and others will
follow.
Great indignation is to be manifested seems at the
moval of subordinate clerks and other officers, who
passed their time during the last summer and fall in anti
Taylor club and rendered themselves ridiculous by
anti-Tayor resolutions, speeches, &c.
By adopting this article, the Inelligencer, by fair i'm
pcaton, may be considered approving and endorsing
the inoleant and false assertions of the Journals
respondent. No man in his senses can doubt that
held in this city-the manner and proportion in
which these Offices, the better paying Offices especially,
are divided between the wing and democratic parties in
Washington and District of Columbia, including Alexan
draare directly and puposey intended to create false i'm
pressions abroad in the States The suboned list OF chief
cerkshps four departments taken from the Blue Book
of ls47 and previous registers and which continued to be
held from the 30h of September in that year, when the
lists made, with only the changes noted until Mr.
Polk and Dis cabinet went out OF office, and they con-
nue this time with changes, OF In favor OF
democrats will clearly and distinctly show the gross mpo
sons which attempted to be practsed on The country
by the wing press and by the whg Office hunters in regard
to the pretended prescriptions of the late administration
The reasons however from without, for the hasty pres
sure and false clamor by which General Taylor and his
cabinet daily, nightly, and hourly beset. are obvious
1t is known that the President is, yet necessarily
and comparatively stranger4o the details OF the extern
siye and complicated official organization OF the depart
mens and bureaus especially in regard to the political
and social relations of the subordinate officers. The
members OF the cabinet who TO the details OF the
Offices in the departments, aso yet, out of their
Offices proper must labor under the want of correct
information No of talent industry, incum
bered by weightcr official business acquire this
knowledge in any short time The necessary knowl-
edge of the "honesty, capacity, and hdelty OF thou
sands of new and clamorous applicants for office,
whose preensions come in conflict with each other as
well as with the claims OF those whom they wish to
push from their stools. is also matter which only be
rightly adjusted upon time and careful examination.
Hence the present rush for office from withoutnade by
those who scrupe al no means OF turning others out TO
get their paces-or the purpose OF efecng removals.
per as ct neas before the old pilot at the helm, his
cabinet advisers have had time TO look about and
how and among whom the offices already distributed
large majority OF the great crowd Of Office seekers,
local and transient, who keep up the daily camor for
place. the inevitable annoyance of the President and
Secretaries-hese of the wind in many instances
who like their parent, are heard in their blowing
but whence they come whittier they go,
knows-are persons who not whom they de-
ceve or whom they turn out, whig democrat they
get Office by the change The present indecent press for
Office as it in such generally made by
without qualifications claims, who gave
roed vote in their lives, except the agent of some
Glentworth or Fitz Waren-men who pretend
to no qualifications for conducting public business,
less it is afforded in the fact of their known ncapacy
ior managing all private concerns-the broken-down
men, whose sole object in desiring office is to enter upon
of getting the highest possible sum in salary fo
doing the least possible amount of service-who
sort daily to the miserable expedient of employing,
for favor or pay. the aid of such writers the
foregoing correspondent of the Journal of Commerce,
wholly different person, we presume, from the
known resident correspondent of that paper Such
men, in less greater numbers, beset every admin
istration These patriots, who wish TO their
try, permanently of party in general They follow
all parties excrescences they play the jackall to the
lion they ready for any sort Of service where
thrift may follow fawnng They break out. through
hired PRESS now and then, in hints that if the admins
traon for the time being does not support them as its
friends-tha is, buy their support with the rewards Of
Office, even at the expense of honest working incum
bents-they cannot be expected consistent lovers OF
their country TO support the administration Now. what
the support opposition of such 10 any adm nsra
ton II is less than small dust in the balance II be
estimated at all morally, their support is dscredt to any
andevery party. On the coming in OF administration, the
honorable and deserving OF the successful party who
by themselves or their friends apply for Office, fle
permit their and recommendations be fled and,
unless detained by sher business in the city, retire to