Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-05-04

- earning and expecting 10 hold on IN lh.i1
dss, 70 me exclusion OF honest capable and
49,, living wings, whom they have i,r twenty
vond In 's'lanchi>ed and kept down. is cool be.
yoha all PARALLEL"
"' KNOW not which most 10 admire in the
10o'o-' me cool impudence and falsity Of the
','ei''ohs' or the garing violation Of the
p'euses and professions of The las, campaign
"s'n'a' and every where else tha, we know
" democrats voted for Taylor, not because he
"oaia TURN out Democrats, but because himself
anu MS organs said directly the onnos;te Tho,
.ney have been deceived and disappointed bv
VIC management of affairs at Washington !.
evident from the fact, that a, the nresen, .,.o
0on 10 Virginia the Taylor Democr,,, -.
universally sustained the Democratic nominees.
Other Wing papers go still further-they
not only justify. but openly exult at the dashing
play OF the guiilotne, whose work snow, by
81. Paul, goes bravey on" The Mobile Ad.
vertiser says:
"DELIGHTFUL MUsIC.-The sroaus Of The
poor Locolocos, as one after another of The nm.
fortunate Office holders is removed from Office
by General Taylor, furnish us with music daily,
which il is delightful 10 listen to. We do moi
recollect, for twenty years past, TO have heard
any thing that sounded so sweetly."
This music, SO "sweet and delightful TO the
Wings, has already produced revulsion of
feeling in Democratic Virginia, which must
sweep through the South and The Union.
We for the present content ourselves with two
g'arng Instances OF The gross violation OF its
pledges By the Taylor administration. Ia the
Norfolk Herald, strong Wing paper, we ind
The following:
"Amcng the Post office remova S is that OF DR..
Samuel }. Wheeler, Poslmas er al Murlreesbo.
70, y. G Il happens sometimes in The contlicis
"l political parties, as in hose OF war, that We
hear ol Inc TALL ol one in the opposing ranks
whom our personal feelings would gladly have
spaiedi and IN this ca st our sympathy has been
awakened by long acqua nance and business
correspondence with Dr. W., who is an es,ima-
bic and courteous gentleman, and for whom.
though Offering with him in politics, we enter
tam high personal regard and good will But
u Is the fortune OF war-ur rather, il is the re-.
sui OF a system Tor which The Administration
| now IN power IS not responsible; but under the
operation oi which, 10 The hands OF lis origina-
tors, many more strongly marked cases than this
may be insanced. Rotation in office having
been proclaimed heretofore 10 be sound Repubi-
| can doctrine, AMI carried out for the last twenty
years with an unsparing hand, II would be utter.
| " nhaVall'ns 10 attempt 10 sop its progress un-
der any Administration, present CT future"
!, is here admitted that DR.. W. is an homes,
faithful and capable public officer, bot must sub.
nit 10 the rule Of prescription" which the Tay-
loriles prolesscd 10 repudiate, but are now push.
ing 10 The ulmos, extent
TIE Mobile Register thus presents in the
strongest light The case OF MIR. Saunders Inc pro-
scribed Collector OF Mobile. Need We common
upon such elaring instances OF cGi.ial breach O
faith and Injustice
Ut is mol likely, nor i il just thar lie Senate o.
! the United States will tan 10 make some enQuil,
which VIII protect such men from the ufficia
calumnrs with which il is attempted TO stigma
NE them, aler having prescribed them. They
Will have The right, in defence OF men thus wan
lunly injured, 10 know whether these charge.
| against them thus mace with official sanction
have any foundation in laci; and why, if accused
and punished because accu,cd they had no op
portnnity Tor defence, before they were dismissed
win otlciai opprobrnm as convicts.
ave lake the case oil The collector OF thi. Dor
Jas {. Saunders. Is there possible charge
against his official conduct against his capa
cry against his intesriiy1 Is there within III,
broad limits Of the S'aic one man in yor 0
whose personal worthless IN all respects Their,
would be more unanimous npIniGn3 l. il pos
sible that his numerous irieads-nay, may
include among them som. Of his political oppo
nents but personal friends, IN he United Stale.
Senate, would be disposed to sufe! This remova
TO pass under The Executive sanction OF The dec
laraIion that it was made for cause not rnlilca
for failure 10 come M 10 the rule OF moral an;
official fitness. So OF othe! removals, which ar
10 all mems honest Convictions merely poliica
but which become insufefably odiuus under III;
oficia calnmny thus deliberately spread betoT
The public,
1--WE trust the Senate Of the Uuited States
will, on principles of the plainest justice-on be
half Of the large mass Of removed public officer
take some steps to relieve them from ID,
odium attempted to be fastened upon them, o
10 obtain specification Of causes and a trial o
the accusations.
awe have been told that the late Collecto
was represented al Washington as an activ
electioneersr, presiding and speaking at pubi
meetings against Gen. Taylor. II is a fabrca
ton, out Of the entire cloth.
"The only public meeting at which MIR. Saun
ders was ever conspicuous at all was at ID
meeting without distinction of party in supper
Of the Southern address. Probably this is IN
Taylor's cabinet have exscted his commission
as proof CT his incompetency 10 affiliate wit
them.n