The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-21
INTELLIGENCE BY THE mAIIs.
WASHINGTON, March Is, I8a0.

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WASHINGTON, March 10, 1919.
The Admin,stration
but LOT the gold mines, we should have beer
swamped Tney have vastly relieved the admin.
istratlon OF the political Oblivion of drift. which
would have been brought down upon us otherw,s.
10 an overwhelming extent, with the advent ol DlJ
Buena Vista. The gold mines have operated -. .
sort OF waste weir, draining off the immense s,,,
pusage of unemployed enterprise from the flesh
pots of the treasury to the dry dlgglngs of the Ju
ba, and the other golden tributaries Of the golde.
Sacramento. The amount required to prosecute for
an office in personal visit to Washington, will
take the petitioner to California, and thousands
who, year ago, were calculating upon the mlsera-
BILE profits OF miserable clerkship in the prospec.
tive, ere now making voyage half way ga tour DIV
monde" TO gather In a month the gold for which
lifetime In an authorship would not yield an
equivulant.
i And yet with the advantage Of this waste weir
this scape- pipe-ths safety -valve-this god seDd
oI the gold region, there Is yet left very enter
pr,sng swarm OF exRectants and active petitioners
1 To ane ,b sp0s OF the Treasury and there are men
that they would willingly agree to vegetate in
washington indefinitely at the m,nimIm of a
thousand year. Nor would they feel The slight
est inconvenience in turning out family here and
Your genuine office beggar has neither shame nor
independence, nor has he sense of feeling for
any other creature than himself. Without the
holiness holiness ne has something of the rapaciy Of
racter, he has all the duplclty OF gambler-with-
out the frankness, he has the subservlency Of
mendicant, and without the industry, he has tn,
Impudence of a clock-pedler. These are the GUS
toners, in all their various degrees of comparison,
with which President Taylor and his cabinet are
now surrounded and COMPOUNDED.
But, among these men there is ons here and
there who may be of advantag. to the admialstra-
ton office holder-there are families and fac
tons, individuals and cllques, who have certain
extent of political influence; and to it they
must be rewarded, On the other hand, oOnel
Polk has bequeated to General Taylor a number
OF benehciarles who can be OF no possible service
IN supporting and giving tone and solldity to a
wing administration; The policy, then, to be pur-
sued IS manifest. The Improbable locos must be
elected, and good wings substituted az tar prac-
ticable with the platform of moderation.
We regard this talk Of the administration Of
Washington and our earlier Presidents as behind
of ad uaiorems. Patriotism In the days of Wash
ngton. was sacrifice of everything for the coun-
try. The times required it. Now, the greater the
patriot, the greater his cost to the treasury. He
must be paid for on the ad palorem graduation; and
whether the man has served on the stump, or in
the Mexican war, the rule is fixed, that If not paid
Tor according to his services, he has been cheated.
In one word, with all his well meant promises
and expectations OF revivIng the good old simpli-
cities OF the days of Washington, our friend Gen.
Taylor, has found the experiment to be out of the
auesfion-.and that the ,expedent is an absurdlty.
The rule is established that to the victors belong
the spolls," and he has acted and will have to act
upon It. He must either make this wing adminis-
tration, or Tyerize it.. In either case, he cannot
expect TO be supported by the locos, and in the lat
ter, he will certainly be manifested by the wings.
HIS course, however, is already taken. He is
wing President, his, is thus far, wing admins
tratlon. His appointments, though not in each
case an :" ultra whig," have still been decidedly
wing. But his confidential relations with Mr..
Webster, distinctly understood and de6nitively
arranged by Mr.. Clayton while yet In the Senate,
prove consluslvely that the policy which is to be
pursued Is to be wing.
We have yet another indication. The appoint
ments OF MIR. EWING and Mr.. Collamer in the Ca
bnet, the appointment of Mr.. McGaughey, of In
diana, TOR Minnesota, and OF Mr. Collier, OF Ohio,
tor Collector OF San Francesca, and other free soil
Northern appointments, superadded to the apparent
tact, that Mr.: Websterls the administration leader
in the Senate, afford good aud plausible data for
the opinion, that General Taylors admlnlstr alton
is very favoraby disposed,
l. Fora compromise.
2 For the application of the Wilmot proviso to
New Mexico and California
Briefly, then, we conclude that the admi-
nistratlon must be wing lis policy and in
IS appointments that it cannot command the
elements Tor a third party tina, IL cannot
xPect the support OF the loco iocos, and must
ely upon the wings; that II will do what It can to
conciate all extraneous affil atoms, who have
been and may be OF some service that it will dis
lose OF as many Improbable locooco Office holders
as possible, and reward deserving wings aud we'll
disposed outslders fast as it can, for the sake
OF peace, for the sake OF unity, and tor the sake
OF having powerful party to support it before tho
people.
And we also conclude, that though General
Taylor may recommend compromise Of the
slavery question, he will endorse the Wimot pro-
viso
1t is understood to be his present lncn alton to
retire at the end Of four years; so that while
he has nothing to fear, the wing party has nothing
to gam or to lose by HIS administration and there
fore every motive to erect 1t TO their adv vantage.
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