The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-14
~The Successor OF Washington -


with the extraordinary discrepancy which exists between
the declarations made by General Taylor before the cleo
lion, and the acts of his administration We have pub
shed in another editorial article in this days paper his
repeated protesations that he the candidate of
party-that he would be the President OF no pary-that
he would initiate the example of the Father of his Coun-
try and would be guided by the constitution and all those
amiable generaites which scattered through his
letters AS these general declarations however, might
not be sufficient to persuade some OF the democratic
party vote for him, and without their votes he could
be elected he specifically declared that he has no
friends reward, enemies to punish and to make
matter not to be misunderstood, his mdgnus apollo,
Mr. Crtenden, before leaving Washington, proclaimed,
in the front of the court house, and as If by authority,
that there would be prescription pactissd and OF
course no removal perpetrated political grounds
The wings and democrats who heard him were both
struck by the positveness of the declaration 1t
precise, and from better known than any other citizen
10 have produced by his management the nomination OF
General Taylor and the defeat of Mr. Clay, and who was
well known to possess his unlimited confidence.
Both wing and democratic Office holders exercised the
rights of freemen in the District They wrote and cir
culaed documents and visited public meetings, and
raised and spent their money in the canvass with this
difference, however-and it is striking dterence-that
the wings were using the means which a democratic
President continued in their hands to overthrow the
party, whilst the democrats sustaining the princi
pies and measures whose success before the people
they had come into power.
Mr. Crittenden when he made his declaration that no
removals should take place, mast have known all these
things He did not make any exceptions against those
who should openly declare their opinions He did not
say that those ,cho remained silent should be safe His
declaration unrestricted. General Taylors declara-
tons, too were unrestricted. He refused TO consider
any his enemies merely because they exercised their
constitutional rights and therefore, on that ground he
had no enemies to punish
And that by the assistance OF certain democrats,
he has reached the elevated station which he confessed
he was incompetent to fill what have been the counses
of his friends and the OF his administration
Conscious of the pledges he had made he refused
first to Office holders account OF any political
offences. His cabinet in vain mportuned him. hungry
expectants in vain surrounded and beseged him, the
wing press and their correspondents in vain
hara.sed and fnessed with false statements of his
ments He appeared to be firm, and to be inexo-
rable
What is said to have passed short time since A
special attack made by public meeting of certain
citizens of Washington against the Commissioner of
Public Buildings In consequence of their resolution
committee waited upon the President and requested in
their the removal of the officer in question. DID
not Gen. Taylor explicitly inform them that he would
not remove an officer without cause? Were they not
directed prepare specifications and submit them to the
Minister OF the Interior for specific investigation. Was
il not understood that, if proved to be guilty, he should
then be removed Did he not thus recognise fully the
principle that he had announced to the public as his
guide
But then came change the spirit of his dreams.
The Connecticut election bursts upon the of the cab
The disappointed otce-hunters, too, had become
more clamorous and imporunae. 1t was then that his
advisers had the game in their hands. The President
no doubt appealed to again. and probably warned
that he would be abandoned by the wings if he should
determine to regard his pledges any longer Is it going
too far to suppose that what said of doors had
penetrated the consultations of the council chamber
that he told the wings had supported his election
for the sake of the spois of oice-hat to the vctors
belong the spoilsand that, if disappointed in the great
reward which they desired, they might desert his admin
straon' He hestated and like all similar cases, he fell
Instead of initiating the Father of his Country, he
rather advised to pursue the maxim of that old Roman
consul who made promises before his election which he
neglected to perform afterwards"
Now, removals becoming plenty as blackberries.
The falling every day, and especially in the Post
Office. His cabinet, and especially wing senators and
members and their friends, urging and the
spirit of prescription upon him. The Virginia elections
may have caused them TO forbear little while longer
but when her polls closed and Mr.. Fitz Henry War
ren's hand is becoming and more in, we shall
probably hear of the guillone taking wider sweep of
prescription. We shall have our columns streaming
more and more with the blood of the victims.
By-the-by, informed that some removals are
expected, which will developments of character
to tickle the of the scandal mongers yet we will
not anticipate We fear the Of the administration
cannot be arrested and that it is determined to
make sacrifices of the Office holders appease the
appetite of the offce-seekers.
After the above article had been prepared for press
we met with the following statement of the Providence
Republican Herald of Wednesday last:
APPOINTMENT BY THE RECONSIDERATION r, Watson,
TO be collector port of Providence place OF Bena-
min Cowell.
Tho reader may find the foregoing paragraph in several
of the wing paperin substance il appeared in the Jour
nal OF last Monday without editorial note comment
Now should like ask a question or two Is Ben,
min Cowel dead according the laws of physiology sin
such cases made provided ~ We havn heard OF his
death in fact him in after the above
announcement had been made in official form. He is not
dead Well, then has his official term expredl No we