Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-04-17
,.1pu THE DIFFERENCE.

The course OF the Taylor administrator III
cutting off the heads OF the Democratic oiiiee'
holders, in fragrant violation OF Inc PROMISES
made dnrine The canvass has produced nniVel-
cal INDIGNATION, in which even some Wings par
licipale. That general system OF prescription
is 10 be sci in mo,ion, We have the concurrent
voice Of The party press all over The country, q
well as The lacls VI numerous removals, WHICH
have leaked cut al Washington, 10 establish
Though before the election, Gen. Taylor had no
"enemies 10 punish" and though, by way OF loll-
ing the suspicious OF Democrats, and inveigh-
ing heir votes, ii was proclaimed that no honest
and competent Democratic ofhce-holder should
feel uneasy for his place, lhe Taylor press anu
the Taylor administration now avow anu ac'
upon opposite ground. The N. York Trlbune's
correspondent says, "aA c6iees wa1eh can oy any
possibility have a eontrolitng influence ouer eles-
lions aoil be filled dy vhgs" What else Is this
but an impuden announcement OF the def'mi-
nation Of the administration 10 appoint 'ren 10
office for the express purpose OF controlling me
eLections7 And that The proper men 10 carry ou'
such purpose have been selected, il evident from
The course OF the Free Soil Postmaster General
and his ready Headsman. Fi,z Henry Warren, oil
| blessed Mormon-bribery and eection-inlri que
memory. The same ultra whig:" New York
Tribune, points, with glow of exullalion, 10
"the Isis Of new Postmaslers in this and our
last" as Testimony that justice will be done The
wings OF The Union" Ii trusts that 'those who
solicit changes will have sense enough 10 rea.
lie that even The proper and necessary changes
cannot be made in month or Two. IN due time
all piH be made right"
In he Piusburg Gazette. a Wing paper, We
find the following:
WASHINGTON, April4, lS49
The work Of relribulIon aud reformation is
going on rapidly. considerable number OF re-
movals and appointments have been made TO-
day, and il is we'll understood that more are pre-
pairing Mr.. Warren, the new head OF thc dp-
pointing bureau in the Post Office Department,
is doing this cork thoroughly expeditions y, and
neatly Even the democrats say that he is doing
The business handsomely up.
The number Of new appointments during The
present month will of course be much larger
than during the last, because nov Mr.. Warren
has his hands in, and IS in the Way 10 ascertain
more readily than al first
|, seems to be becoming understood upon both
sides that wherever removals are made or vacan-
cies occur, ,ohigs will be appointed
10 connection with these predictions. are the
following extracts from the Philadelphia News
of Wednesday:
The. pharisaica disposition Of The Locooco
press was never more s;rikinsly exhibited than
in the ridiculous and senscess cry OF proscrp-
tol, which il is now endea2oTing 10 raise, with
the vain and absurd hope Of delening The admin
istration from carrying out The expressed VIII of
the people, whose cecision in November last was
mol less a judgment OF condemnation against
the men then IN power, Than OF The measures
they were enteavoring 10 foist upon The counIry;
and ocoioco hypocrisy, now even more mani
fest than then shows how sound and Just was
that judgment.
II Is mol 10 be supposed by any man in bis SEN
SEES lha, the men whom the people have condem-
ned as unworthy ale to be retained in their pres
| eul position 10 The exclusion Of those belonging
| ic the great party now in the ascendency. Those
| who are loudesl in their denunciations OF The ad-
| minislralion for making removals, would laugh
al The folly oil such course. The administra-
lion has made a good beginning, and We are sure
We but give utterance 10 The united whlg senti.
ment OF the country when we say il will no I
cease the work thus well begun, Until ali The off,
ces now filled by braWli6g ocotocos are filled by
men who are honest and competent, and possess
ing sound principles.
The work is going on bravely Ftz HeDty War.
rem has indeed ''his hands in," and thu National
| Wing and other papers are daily filled with the
records Of new victims Of the Guillolne. There
| are moreover, some cases of peculiar hardship,
which reflect but little credit upon the heart and
feelings of Gen. Taylor, ii indeed he was not
imposed upon BY the designing and knew not
what he did. Mr.. Douglass, the Commissioner
OF Public Buildings, was duly arrai5ned before
the President upon charges of incompetency,
and Gen. Taylor had promised to look into the
facts and examine the evidence. But, in a
very brief space, this Democrat, without being
allowed defence, is hurled out Of Office. Three
other cases are recorded, which it Is due 10 the
cause of truth and Of consistency, that we should
spread before the people of Virginia. The two
6r,t are thus set forth in the Pennsylvania:
TWO HoNoRED vICTIMs-ColL L. P.
CaElrHAA, the wor by, efficient, and gentleman
" postmaster at Nashville, Tennessee, has been
removed This is another instance oil pure par
" prescription. Col. CHsATH.M served the pub.
lie honestly and faithfully, and was popular Of
6cer; bul he was Democrat, though not med
dler in poiics-and for his he was rcmoved-
Neither good conduct in office, tn wishes OF
majority OF The citizens Of Nashville. (althcueh
a Wing city,) nor the fact that his son, Col B.
| f. CHEATHAM, fought in several bloody battles in
| Mexico, and aided Gen. TAYLOR in winning VIC
tories which made him President, could save his
head from being brought 10 the block.
rup thpc nf heLia cd
ter was one OF the frs! officers 10 ener fort al
| Monterey. He performed gallant services nj
Vera Cruzand Cerro Gordo, yet, Notwithstanding
these facts, his father is removed from an Office
barely sufficient 10 support him and his numerous
family, and large properly holder placed IN
his stead. So much for The justice and liberasi-
| w OF the new administration.
The venerable Simon Drum, for more thsn
forty years postmaster al Greensburg, West,
| moreland county, in this State, has also fall
len under the axe OF an administration which
came into power with false professions Of mode
ration on its lips Mr.. Drum is the father Of
| the celebrated Captain Drum who fought so he
| roically at Buena Vista under the flag of his
country, and afterwards fell in the Valley OF
Mexico, after having recaptured the guns lie
mad lost in the former engagements General
Taylor was appealed TO to save the size of this
Sahdit Hcfo. no "ds aPpedicu 10 W W true 10
his pledges al least in this case; but all to no
purpose. The enemies of the war in which
the chivalrc Drum breathed his last, succeeded
in forcing General Taylor 10 allow the memory
of the ilustrious dead to be violated in the per.
son Of the venerated living
The Union records another case, still more
revolving:
REMOVAL OF GEN. McCALLA, SECOND auprros-
We have heard with surprise, not tbe fact of
his removal, (for he had long been marked out
as yictim) but the MANNER in which il was
| consummated We confess il was with I'm.
miDgl establishment we have heard of the fol.
lowing facts connected with his removal. To
what course will the Administration next de-
scend, /, would have better become them TO
have met the matter in bold, direct and manly
manner, than To have araied themselves of his