The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-03-30

The New York Express undertakes 10 relieve the ad
ninstrahon from the embarrassment which it is ad
mitted feel Sin deciding what ought TO be its duty in
the of removals from Office The Express pro-
esses TO furnish ray of truth guide it's in the
form of ga few leading truths" which il Processes pro-
mulgate But is like the attempt OF the blind guide
the blind
Its first truth is that the wings constitute about one.
half OF the twenty millions of people the United States
and that ten of these twenty millions 'proscribed
race" and therefore it is the duty of whig admins.
traon unproscribe this prescribed by giving them
office. Now this is exuavagant enough but what fol.
lows is still more
The next leading truth is that Gen. Taylor comes INTO
Office pledged to prescriptions and 1T holds him to this
pledge; for 'Thee 25O0 900 federal Offices The ohoe
of them are filled by democrats" What the whole!
Not wing anywhere in Officer Prodigious truth in.
deed But, softenng in the next step in its process Of
illumination the Express says "There is scarcely ono
wing in power from Maine to Oregon" (Then there are
one or two y The Express proceeds;
To Gen Taylor say remove the ten millions of wings
from unjust prescription under which they suffer- and
them l25 900 of these $1,000 federal offices. Justice
demands all this II is twenty years since the wings
were a prescribed Iace-since 1889. The people in
1919 removed them from the ban of prescription but the
treachery John Tyler the people that elected him. re-
the ban The election Of Gen. Taylor by the same
wings for the purpose next to the restoration Of
principles of the early Presidents of the removal from them
of the cruel prescription under which they were during
Gen. Jacksons adm nisratlon.
This them is the miserable of sophistry by which
Gen Taylor is to be beguiled Here stands his positive
pledge TO know party in his appointments to office
Here is his unqualified pledge against prescription
These pledges, however, to be set aside by fictitious
plea got up for the purpose which Gen. Taylor himself
toE1 ,,rip tho xyho pf,,l
pagn Here is good faith with vengeance Here
is the honor of President to be sported with, and
held as cheap as gamblers oaths Ask this gallant
General whether this the in which he con.
sidered prescription in declaring against the
prescription of democrats he dreamed OF this mys-
teal meaning of unproscrbing the whole wing party
The argument is ridiculous the attempt to olsen
chant Ducnea by the stripes of the unfortunate Squire
Besides, who believes these "leading truths" put
forth as SO many ncontestable facts' Who believes
there is not wing in federal Office scarcely one'
Let the Express go into the collectors Office of New
York, and ask that most respectable man, Mr. Lawrence
whether he has kept whig in office, and he will
point them out by at their desks Ask in this
city for wings in the departments and he will find tens
and hundreds of them The late Secretary of the Navy
has not removed one. The Secretary OF War has not
suspended one Immediately around him and though his
bureaus may have removed few, yet he has employed
ten or twelve Of them in temporary appointments and,
on the whole, the balance stands in their favor. But
why push this subject further The facts are against
the Express-the argument still more SO; and it is in
vain that he presses this ridiculous scphism TO justify,
in the BREATH the prescription of the democrats
and violation of the solemn pledges of no-partq
President