The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-18
ELI MOORE AND REMOVALS FROM
OFFICE.

OFFICE.
The propriety of removals from Office
the necessity of such changes where a
President would not make himself respon-
sible for the possible misdeeds of officers
not appointed by himself-was well illus
trated in the case of Eli Moore and the
marshalship of the Southern District of
New York. Locofocos will be sslittle
blind'' to the misdeeds of their political
friends. Mr.. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER was
district attorney in New York-and every
thing went well with Eli MooRE. Mr..
BUTLER was removed by Mr.. Polk for
daring to entertain and express political
opinions different from those of his chief.
Another Locofoco district attorney was
appointed. Still every thing went well
with Ell MOORE. Not hair of his head
was endangered.
When President TAYLOR removed Mr..
Shepard and appointed j. PREscoTT HALL
to the place of district attorney, vacated
by that removal, the cry was raised Of
Prescription. 1t was no prescription for
Mr.. Polk to turn out Mr.. BUTLER for
wagging his finger at him." That was
merely wholesome discipline, necessary
to maintain proper subordination in the
Locofoco party. But when General TAY-
LoR turns out gentleman who occupied
seat thus vacated by the rude dismissal
of Mr.. BUTLER, the outcry is raised Of
prescription; and the Union threatens to
rouse the indignation Of the country, make
moral issues, and hold the WING party
accountable before God and the country,
and to make such conduct so infamous
and SO abhorrent in the eyes of the people,
that even the leaders of the WING party,
reckless and unscrupulous as they are,
will not dare to be guilty of IT'D
Well, what was the result of Mr.. PRES
coTT HALL's appointment In the course
of very few days he discovered and ex-
posed gross defalcation and malversation in
office-which showed clearly enough that
Mr.. Moons ought never to have been APP
pointed. His official infamy even the
Locofoco press has not sought to palliate.
How was it reachedi By the exercise by
President TAYLOR of the removing and APP
pointing power. In this case, then, the
exercise of this power was beneficial to the
country. |. was injurious to the Locofoco
party because it exposed their corrupt
practices Jut ii was beneficial TO the
country.
But Mr.. HALLS appointment, in view
of the Locofoco press, was the prescription
of Mr.. SHEPARD. Mr.. MooRE's delin-
quencies, then, were reached and exposed
by an act which the Locofocos condemn
as " abhorrent in the eyes of the people. "
II would have been better, according to
the Unions logic, that Eli MOORE should
have renamed in office, and that the ex-
posure Of his deinquencies should not
have been made-than that General TAY-
LoR should have committed so immoral an
act as to appoint Mr.. PREscoTT HALL-for
this was one of General TAYLoR's own
appointments, and does credit to his saga
city and discernment.
How much of this outcry of proscrp-
ton and immortality is to be referred TO
the dangers which Locofocos apprehend
from similar results from the exercise of
the appointing power' Well may they
tremble, when in so important quarter
it leads to such unexpected disclosures
How are we to know what has been trans
piring for years in the official bureaus, if
they are 10 remain forever in the same
handsl To change any of their occupants
is prescription" Not to change them
is to secure them all immunity from the
fate of Mr.. MOORE, and the country from
the advantages which it derives from
Jealous supervision of the conduct of its
public servants. We hope the next time
the Union INDUCES in a sermon on this
text, it will illustrate its views of the inn
morality of removals from Office by espe-
cal reference to the cases of Mr.. ELI
Moore and Mr.. PREsCoTT HALL.
81 AM FOR GOOD ROADS. GOOD HAIR
BORIS. AND GOOD LAWS, AND THEN
rxI r.N f.n xuE4ns,