Columbus Democrat., 1849-08-11
From the Washington Union.
TACTICS OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

The press continues to assail Us for daring 70
arraign the acts Of the present administration
Let them pour out their abuse upon our heads
wc are perfectly indifferent 10 their violence or
their security. We mean to discharge our duty
fearless OF all consequences. The misfortune Is.
not that we complain Of their acts, but that they
give as such just cause for our complaints. We
have arraigned them for various misdsmeanors:
and we continue to impeach them, because they
continue their transgrcssons. We have i'm.
peachcd them for violating their pledges, and for
continuing nm unteeng and unprecedented course
Of prescription Who can now deny thIs COM
plautl Victim afer victim has beer sacrificed
daily almost hourly without cause according 10
their own confession. See the case OF the clerks
ofthe Post Office Department, and SEQ the case
Of Mr. English, in this days paper These gem
,lemen are removed because they are democrats,
who have discharged their duty with honesty
capacity and 6dey The Swiss organ LOST all
caste for frank dealing and integrity Of purpose,
when it resored TO tho flimsies of all possible
excuses, and attempted TO excuse Gen. Taylor
for violating his pledges because they were can>
cellcd by tho declarations which were made in
his name by the delegates oil Louisiana.
We have charged the President with lhc
grosscst inexpcrience and the most signal inca
pacity. Who doubts this, when he hears of his
own declaration that he was unable TO save ono
friend from dsmission. or to appoint another TO
ollice--who knows his habits--who listens to tho
tone Of his conversaton-and who reads his let
ter to Mr. Grandn--and who has The most dis
tant gmnering ofthe confused and inesponsi.
Die manner in which his cabinet matters arc
conductedl
We have charged the administration with sen.
ding off Indian Agents TO California without law.
aud OF sanciioning, in an unprecedented man
ner, the most wasicful and expensive disburse-
mentS through the Quartermasters department.
We have called for the accounts OF these expen>
scs; and we shall only cease to call when they
are voluntarily published by those who can con.
troll the information, or when the Congress 6f u.
States themselves shall make an impera'ivG call
for the accounts.
We have charged ii with allowing Indian
claims ola large omount which had been rejec-
ted BY the preceding administration, and now al.
lowed because they were pressed by tavorites
whom they wished 10 serve, orby mombers ef
Congress whom they desired u oblige These
cases we know will slartle ilg6 country when they
NV Fu' WIN W az tHN'' Heoo
ticers have gone too far now TO retreat, IN many
respects, and yet The Developments ofthe Union
have 50 far contributed to alarm them as to pre-
vent their yielding 6thcr fayoIs to those who
asked and expected ikcm.
Wtnessing,hc Ecenes which ara going on
before our cycs--Jkcarng the facts which are re-
vealed to us ab9di the fearful working of the ma
chinery now Operating in the depanmenis--sta
ding upon sHch grounds as we believe to be just
and urged/on by abuses which we cannot justify,
and will khot conceal what care we for the mis-
erahlHhppant, sophisms Of the organs or their
equFocaI contradictions What care we for tho
c2hbned abuse ofthe whig pressl We have
encountered such consequences before, and wa
Ihaye never been frightened from our propriety.-
" G have gone on to do our duty in the spirit
.:;vyrh became the free editors ofa press, and VIC
NAN captinne to discharge our duty with the same
de,ermintion, Indifferent 10 threats, to abuse, to
very thcr consideration But the performance OF
our d1 Upon this groend we sland--upon
: his Y appeal to free peoele.