The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-04
PLAYING AT BOWLs.

PLAYING AT BOWLs.
The Union Of yesterday devotes a chap
ter to the discussion Of this interesting amuse-
ment. II attributes the recent loss Of Wing
members of Congress in Connecticut and
Virginia, to the too free indulgence, by the
Administration, in the game of playing
bowls, or in palmer terms, to what is falsely
called the proscriptive policy Of the Admin
istration. It says, that they who play at
bowls must expect rubbers---a truism that
no one win deny but we deny that the adj
ministration has been or is engaged in any
such sport, is or has been proscriptivc in the
least degree, and therefore, the rubbers,
which the Wings have received in the cleo
tons just passed, are not the result Of any
such cause. If il be true, as the Union
contends, that these results are the conse-
9uence Of what it terms the proscriptive pol
I icy Of the Administration, how did it hap
pen, that the operation Of the same cause did
not produce similar result at the New
York city election' II the policy Of the
administration was proscriptive when the
Connecticut election took place, It was equal
" 80 when the New York city election was
held Tbs position Of our neighbor is un-
tsnable.
Indeed, 30 far from attrbuting our defeat
in Connecticut and Virginia to the proscrip-
tive policy of the Administration, TO the
bowls which the Union says it has been
playing, we are disposed to regard il rather
as the fruit of natural impotence among the
Wings, lest the appointment policy Of
the new government would not be stringent
enough, would not be healthfui enough in
its operations. They appear to have forgot
ten, that the Administration Of Executive
justice requires delberation and the exercise
Of temperate judgment. What was and is
sslf-evident to our friends, in a given and
particular case, they seem to have forgotten,
could not be SO plain to the appointing power,
before whom every case must come to be de-
cided. We know, that the Wings Of Con-
necticut and Virginia entered upon the re-
cent contest with slow pace and uncertain
feelings, taking counsel enormously but hon
estly, no doubt, Of their eager desire to see
the government purged Of its notorious cor
Iuptions and abuses. The enormity Of these
corruptions and abuses, was so great in the
eyes Of our friends, that they could not
brook the necessary delay in removing them,
and in moment Of despair, they suffered
their confidence in the old chief, whose word
has never yet been known to fail, to be has
tily impaired, and the records prove that they
permitted the elections to 60 by default.
The rubbers which the Wing party have re-
ceiyed are not the result Of the Adnnnistra-
TONS having played at bowls, --they are the
fruit Of a too prevalent misrepresentation
among our friends, that the Administration
wasnot sufficiently alive to the necessity Of
purifying the official corps, Of restoring the
personnel Of the government to its original
purity. There had not been time sufficient
for the Administration to demonstrate its up
right purpose, to redeem the promises made
in the Inaugural, in respect to the officers Of
government; and the care and caution and
prudence and wisdom displayed by General
TAYLOR, in the execution Of the appointing
power, were so different fiom the policy OF
the expelled dynasty in this particular, that
even Wings seem to have lost their long tried
patience.
But no future occasion for misapprehen-
sion Of the policy Of the Administration, in
any respect, can possibly arise. Our Wing
friends in Connecticut and Virginia will not
be slow in repenting Of their error in de-
Ginning TO be patient in well-doing little
while longer They win come to see, that
they have done unintentional injustice to
the old Hero and his Administration, BY
permitting themselves to distrust, for single
moment, his determination to carry out any
Of the purposes expressed in his Inaugural.
Before the people will be called on in the
States, yet to elect delegates to the next
Congress, to exercise the right Ct suffrage,
the country will have realized to the fullest
extent, the long-expected consummation on
The part Of the Wings, Of seeing the Gov
srnment confded throughout its whole ex-
7 tent, to the administration Of honest, capa-
BILE, and faithful officers, in whom the Elk
scutiye can repose confidence. The Wing
party viii then be able to play at bowls with
their opponents, and will cheerfully receive
all the rubbers which the latter can send.
--aD
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
LouIsvIiLE, April 2sih, isa9
Al Cincinnati and here, and indeed ever
where that hear from, the people pleased wild