The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-07

ment, which their own temerity may have
provoked Nf'f4st
But what has the Administration done, to
merit the species Of partisan warfare, which
the. Union has been and still is waging
against it, with such beast-lilSe ferocity and
iuryi Its offences are, that General Taylor
permitted the people TO make him President,
and that he has begun, and will continue
until tbs finished, the good work of bring
ing the personnel Of the Government back
to its original purity. The editors Of the
Union, and their associates throughout the
country in the confidence Of their party, will
never forgive Gen. Taylor for consenting to
be candidate ior the Presidency, will never
forgive those who were instrumental in ORR
ginally bringing forward his name for that
office, and who voted for and elected him,
will never forgive him for embodying in
such popular iormularies, as his letters re,
the true doctrines Of Whiggery, and execu-
ting them after he came to be President
Hinc iHe lacryme. Hence the origin Of
their calumnies. Before the election, they
misrepresented, they perverted the meaning
of all General Taylor's letters. Since the
election, they do the same thing, though what
they say now Of those productions, Is diamet-
rically opposite to what they then said ofthem.
Gen. Taylor is. devil, said they, before
the election, because he comes eating and
drinking. He . is devil now, say they,
because he fasts and abstains from the ex-
ercise Of kingly powers. Since he has en-
tered upon the performance of his official du-
ties, he has done precisely what they, be-
fore the election, said he would do--except
that his motives are different from those as
cribed to him by them--and 10! they con-
dem him iotis riribus as having violated his
pledges. He has removed from Office every
man whom he has found to lack the posses
sion Of the prerequisites, enumerated in his
Inaugural, as he said he should do, and the
Unions editors have set up the howl Of pro-
scription for opinions sake. Every displaced
officer is, in their eyes, a political martyr,
whose room can never be supplied by any
appointee, unless he be Democrat. No
Whig-this Is their morning homily--i is ca
pable Of discharging the duties Of public
Office, from President Taylor down to a
country postmaster, the total receipts of
whose office are one dollar per annum. The
people did wrong, were guilty Of crime,
say they, in electing General Taylor TO be
their Chief Magistrate His cabinet officers
are not fit to discharge the duties OF JUS
tice Of the peace in frontier settlement.
All his appontees, they further charge, are,
without exception, dishonest, incapable, faith
less, worthless, villains, importers, enemies
Of their country, and better fitted to be in
mates Of a penitentiary than recipients Of the
public confidence. And yet, in the midst Of
this sweeping condemnation Of everything
that President Taylor has done and is
doing, Democratic oflice-holders--we have
authority for what we are about to say
who are subscribers to the Washington
Union, and the warm approvers of its
vile abuse OF the Administration, are daily
and hourly applying to the Executive to
be retained in Office, and Democrats, who
applaud and approve the disgraceful par
tisan and personal warfare waged against
the Administration by this same journal,
are constantly thrusting their impertinent
interference into the counsels Of the appoint
ing power, and boldly seeking to secure the
appointment of their associates to Office.
This is species of ofiice4seeking that is en-
tirely new 10 this country. II is nothing
more than an attempt Of the defeated party
to convert his defeat into a victory. 1t is a
quarteling upon the enemy II is an open
defiance Of the popular will, as expressed at
The ballot-box. II is an impudent attempt
by The defeated to prescribe the victors. It
is meddling with what does not concern
them II is not oflice-begging, for it lacks
the air Of mendicancy. II is rather Office
demanding. They come to their opponents,
whom they daily hold up through the col
umns Of the Union as unworthy Of the Peo-
ple's confidence, as unfit to be the servants
Of free people, and demand as right to
be retained in, or to be appointed to, office.
The Departments are constantly harrassed
with such applications. What are We TO
think Of men who can be guilty ofsuch con-
duct The least that can be said Of them
is, that they are not worthy Of the confidence
Of honest men We can assure them, that
their efforts either to deceive or drive the
Administration into reposing official conf
dence in them will utterly fail,
The conductor Of the Union, and his ed-
torial co-laborers, as we have already said,
have not only waged political warfare
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