The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-11


of opinion in the cabinet this important point,
and that the course of conduct on the subject,
declared by Gen. Taylor before his nomination,
and adhered to since his inauguration, Is not con-
curred in bv a certain portion of those whom he has
called to fill the high places In the government.
The leading organs of the two old partles-whg
and Acknowledgements to be dissatisfied with
the course of the admnstraton-the one because
too few removals have been made, and the other
that too many ofice-holders have been already
displaced We might fill columns of our paper with
extracts from the Washington Union, and other
affiliated journals, the side, deprecating the
removals that have already taken place and we
find in the leading wing journals-such as the
Courier and Enquirer of New York, the North
american of Philadelphia, and in others-artices
deprecating the policy of not appointing, and expe
diting the removal from Office of many Of the old
incumbents, and the appointment of some of the
multitude of office-beggars and others, who have
been crowding together at Washington for few
weeks past Here is sample, taken from the Cou-
,ier and Enquirer of yesterday :.
WAsHrNoroy April s, 1S49.
The result of the election in Connecticut if 1t ind
Gates anything dscloses the necessity for prompt and
vigorous action on the part Of the administration
the wing party has suffered it is not unreasonable that
upon coming into power, and finding all tho offices
filled with whose vocation it has been to denounce
and stgmatze their principles they should require as
that their rights Of equality in tho adminstra-
ton Of the government will be fully protected.
public Offices filed by men who had been MS devoted
partizans in the of ls44, and many of whom
had been appointed with view to the influence which
they could exercise in promoting his election. The
necessity which appears did not then exist and
yet notwithstanding this fact no proceeded to reward
hia in riend prescription
had been equally jealous but who had adhered to the
fortunes Of Mr. Tyler throughout his term OF
Office.
When the opposition press therefore, undertakes to
clamor against changes they only discover the spirit
career and which has sought, by fair FOUL to
monopoze all the honors and emoluments OF the fede-
raj patronage. If the administration has been remiss
at all it has been in the liberation which 1t has exhi
bited towards inscriptions enemies, who besides be-
ing unfit for the trusts which they enjoy have rendered
themselves obnoxious by most indecent prostitution
of their places in electoneering There principle
of right forbearance, by which large pro-
retained They have violated every proprety, offended
deccncy and raised the black flag of prescription
against every man and every principle bearing the
name of whg, suspected Of having the remotest
sympathy or affinity with that conservative party,
whose aim and ambition has been, to restrain the
cutve power within the limits of the constitution and
to check movements which have tended to the desruc
ton of free institutions.
While political divisions continue to exist, party
be sustained which attempts to act upon the policy
of Furnishing its friends and rewarding its enemies.
In the Presidential election, the people decided, not
only that the administration should be changed, but
that corrupt and reckless should be dis
placed 1t was proclaimed at tho balot-box, that the
government should be purified both in its measures
and men. On this point there can be no doubt. The
popular verdict, justice and an honest regard of the
rights of those who represent amaorty of free voters
imperatvey demand that the prescription by which
the whg party has been excluded from Office for nearly
n quarter of q century, should now be prescribed
While caution and discretion should BIO observed there
should also be vigor and efficiency in dispensing the
public patronage While doubt Is permitted to exist
confidence cannot be infused and without that infu-
sion after such a success witnessed in Novem-
Der last. produced it was by determined and pa
trotic effort against the combined influence of an
scrupulous opposition and an organized corps in the
pay the party cannot be brought to dis
charge its entire duty his fact had better be under
stood now than after more unfortunate results The
election in Connecticut to whatever cause our defeat
may be ascrbed is full of instructive admonition by
which the administration may profit at least in mca-
surfing the magnanmity of its opponents
The writer of this article is generally believed
to be identical with the writer of similar letters in
the North An,c,ican of Philadelphia. He is in the
confidence of Mr.. Clayton, Secretary OF State, and
the tone of this and similar articles in both of those
papers have been the same for some time past, In
relation to the necessity of vigorously proceeding
in the business of removing from office. 1t very
evident that General Taylor, when he made his
declarations before the election and reiterated them
afterwards, never intended them to be empty and
without meaning and no better proof OF the sim
cerity of the Chief Magistrate could be found than
in the caution and elaboration with which he pro-
ceeds in the matter, notwithstanding the clamor of
those who have been removed, and that Of the
hungry ones who want Office, and who pretend to
be his friends, supporters and advisers. There can
be no doubt that certain portion of General Tay
lors cabinet (and it is very easy to designate them
n aJ inU hose
lar illusions which appear in the leading wing or
gans of New FORK and Philadelphia, and which are
calculated to press on the President the necessity of
more indiscriminate removal from office, and
more and quicker appointments OF the hungry
crowds who are at Washington. There is a spirit
in the cabinet of very ultra wing character, and it
possesses, too, energy and decision, calculated to
overcome the reluctance of the President in pro-
ceedng to such lengths, to the reputation Of
all the pledges and promises which he gave us be-
fore the election, and which he renewed in his IN
augural address from the steps of the capitol 1t was
a similar spirit which broke down the administra-
ton of poor Captain John Tyler, and scattered the
power influence and elements of the whig party, in
those days. TO the winds of heaven for the four years
succeeding. The wing journals of that day, in
their eageness for the spos, and without regard
to propriety or moderation, pursued policy some
what similar to that which we perceive the Cot-
rier and Enquirer and the North american are ad-
vocating at the present day. We are persuaded,
however, that they will find that the Chief Magis-
trate, now in the White House, is made of diffe-
rent materials to those which formed him who oc-
cupied it after the demise Of poor Gen. Harrison.
If any portion the present cabinet are discovered
intriguing with the rabid portion of the press Of
either the wing or democratic party, for the pur-
pose of coercing or forcing General Taylor to a
violent of action in relation to removals and
appointments, and thus to violate the voluntary
pledges which have thus far accompanied his po-
tica career, we perfectly satisfied that the old
chief has the sagacity, energy, and prompttude to
set such portion of his cabinet right, to lay them
aside and replace them with better, more compre-