The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-10

r,ts party. "Proscription and violated pledges" will
- rung on all the changes and the authors rs is1
possible held to public odium IRIS Is as 10 snouid
g. II they have acted from other than the public int
rests for say what you may about removals Oh the az
sr.Si 'nis ssSe and show any
sy with its pledges The fear Is that rom what mas
Anew doubtless will in 1852 not whig will be left from
the general massacre The gutlotine Will then work
in and who hove been enjoy offices
upder former democratic administrations, will enjoy
them They will then and feel too the differ
cnee between prescription charged, and prescription
party have never been proscriptive. Mr.. Meredith
with his legal will perceive this. Mr. Polk did
indeed commence it, and carry too far but the blue
books prior his administration, will show that the
wings have had their full share of the offices, and,
.ss the q the system by Mr. Polk
which, as much anything else led to the nomina-
Sn TayGT IN h ssh 'GW sal. in
on the subject, the consequences to the country
nust be awful No human power can arrest q the
cratic power have been stayed by motives of hu-
mainly. and magnanimity for a weaker foe. Justice
cupyng the equivocal position they do before the
country, should remove the democrats from Office
further than Just participation in the Offices would
before said they will WELD it most unmercifully and
what the party will applaud and the country
The decaptatons before mentioned have produced
general uneasiness with democratic Office holders
They fancy they see in them their own doom They
and spit constantly to be well convinced that
their heads are net Ioff, They autter'' like
pigeons" conceiving themselves wounded" whilst
still unhurt Poor devils what will become Of them
Joking aside, however, drawer set of fellows
saw Had General Taylor encountered such ut Buena
Vista, instead Of the starved Mexicans he and his
whole army would have been swallowed alive. There
would not have been 20 much spot left of
them to tell where they had been engulphed Most Of
them have large families, and but little wherewith to
cothe and feed themselves They would be glad to
mold onEndeed some OF them have avaiied themselves
whig influence, kindly rendered to do so; but in
yariably say they, the AXE should fall US,
the world is large, and owes us a living" admire
such sentiments-they bespeak the man
| understand that next to the Second Auditors
clerks those Of the third will receive the attention Of
the secretary 1t is understood that time since
calls for information had been made upon the Auditor
and responded to- with this object in view. Why
action has been deferred long not able to find
out Perhaps they are all conpetetent clerks II So
they should remain If not-not. Mr.. Hagner did
however ask for the restoration of some of his old
clerks-whether with view to substitute equal
number of Mr. Walkers appointments, or as an addi-
tiopal force is not known He, who owes so much TO
the democratic party, could not lave designed to put
out OF us Office any industrious competent demo-
crat To be sure he whose opinions have been long
spared would not now ask that others should be pun
ished for theirs.
How stands the matter on the score Of prescription
here? On the 4th Of March, 1si5, there were in the
Third Auditors Office % wings and IL democrats Mr.
Polk removed 10 wings several for and the rest
on principle of rotation they having been appointed
by his democratic predecessors in Office One Of them
other "a another 49, another IL. and another IL; two
had been il Office years and the last but one year
On the 18th of March, 1910 there were rs democrats
and wings H. Dedueting six clerks authorized by
law under Mr. Polk the singular coincidence happens
Of the state Of parties being exactly reversed
On the 4th of March, 1s45, the wings receiving
salary of $27 200; the democrats land two of them
bank democrats) were receiving Sli,i5O making
difference of Sl6.O5O in favor of the former
On the 4th of March, 1870 the democrats were re-
snce Of sl6s5O from which deduct the salaries of the
clerks before mentioned Sc 400, the difference will
appear to be only $3.50 Thus it will be seen that
notwithstanding the wings and democrats have swap
ped numbers since 1S45 they have not altered in like
ratio the amount of salary they received for be it
membered that in 1S45 the difference In favor of the
wings $l6 $50, above stated and 1t is only
$3.50 in favor Of the democrats
Up to 1S45 the advantage in favor Of tho wings
and they had kept it from the foundation of the 60
vernment. At present the democrats have like ad-
h.s IA S s
Should removals be made! Can they be made con-
sistently with the public interest and in accordance
with General Taylor's pedges They ought not to be
made, most certainly ceieris Paribus all other
things being equal. Dut that is the question arc
is not incompetency which binders the progress Of bu
sness in that Office. | would advise the secretary to
who do not work; for it is not jusfabe to waste the
public money, whether tue ncumbents be friends or
foes y In this manner removals should S De
Burgess should be restored their servcesat this time
would be valuable. They are gentlemen, and well
Since the 4th of March last, two vacancies have ia
ken place in the Sd Auditors offceonc by the death
Of Mr. Thurston and the other by the resignation Of
Major Sheldon This alters the relative state Of par
ties at present IS IL to 2613 still deducting the elk
clerks showing that the real difference, as to
movals is only 20 49, The removal therefore, of four
will give the wings majority of on that account,
and nearly equalize the question of salary.
There some matters it may concern Mr.. Mere
dth to know and just man, hope he will ascer-
tain the facts, and act accordingly. The position he
occupies before the country is lofty onein impor
lance all the great interests of the country the
first He stands head and shoulders above all the
cabinet His position in the Unien is most favorable
II, therefore he should administer the treasury
principles national and liberal in the estimation
Of his party his prospects for the next wing Pre-
sidency will be far brighter than those Of any other
in the Union not excepting Mr. Crittcnden him
self who when he ventures forth, will have awful
account to settle with his party, a. well as the
democratic.