The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-09
For the Union.
Review Of the Departments OF tho Government
for Last nj

Review OF the Departments OF the Government
for the last tvvrniy years.
have been a resident of Washington for more than
twenty five years and my business has been such as to
bring almost daily in contact with the employees of
the several departments OF the government therefore
propose in series of numbers 10 take review of mat
ers and things Immediately connected with those depart
ments provided you should consider them worthy of a
place in your columns ] shall begin with glance
at The state OF things they existed and had been
Tor number OF years prior 10 the 4th of March.
ls29 which day General Jackson took his seat as
Chief Magistrate of the nation. Ii is well known
thai during the first term of Mr. Monroes adminislra
lion all open asperty OF parry feeling had so completely
subsidized, as TO the old federal party to acguesce
IN his election for second term without opposition.
Throughout the eight years OF his ncumbency the fede
allstswho were never back ward asking TO be allowed
TO serve the country in civil capacity for pay whether
under federal or democratic Observation-Disclosures dex-
eronsly slipping into every place that happened to be-
come vacant so that at the close of his administration
three fourhs of the offices the seat OF government were
filled by federaliss In the four succeeding years OF Mr.
Adamss administration, il is well known there were
none but ederalsts appointed, making 2i0 iederass TO
So democrats in office the fourth of March, 1929.
The former held all the most lucrative Offices, and
many of them had avished upon General Jackson all The
most abusive epithes be found in their vocabulary
and had denounced his amable and unassumng wife
everything that infamous Almost without
ception the old federaiss in Office that time spoke
and acted il they believed they had prescrptve right
to all the Offices here. They had long given free IL
their tongues that the abusive ephets applied
to General Jackson unstntingyl candidate, they
continued to lavish upon him President They treated
with contempt and his official announcement that
he have the public business promptly attended
by trudgeng lesurely to their several Offices at ten
eleven o'clock in the day. and after reading the abuse OF
the federal press retiring from Office two, well posted
up the scurrous abuse of the day, which it
their evening occupation to detail and comment upon at
their several rendezvous.
What speak of know and, knowing it. the crisis
| requires that should speak it,
do not doubt can be responded to by democrats
who into Office under General Jackson, when
state that whatever might have been their responsibility
or standing in the community from whence they came,
however high the order OF capacity they possessed
their advent into office, they looked upon by the
federal ncumbents nruders and nterlopes of an in
feror ORDER who had right to any share OF the oavas
and fishes upon which they had been feasng from the
first organization of the government. This feeling was
not only shown in their conduct but expressed in une-
quivoca language in the streets and elsewhere, for
have heard it and what have heard the crisis requires
should speak OF. sa
In the next number shall bring the review up TO the
Ith of March, lS4l. 1900 A. l..