The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-06
THE UNION.



The President of the United States begins to appe-
cate the unpleasant enbarrassmens of his position. He
finds himself reposng upon no bed of roses and declared
the other day that he would rather be in the humbest
cabin of the West than amid the honors and cares of the
White House. Coming into Office under the pledge OF
acting as a no-pary President position which dis
eliminates his from that of his predecessors and
subjects him to responsibilities from which they
could escape--he finds himself in no very agreeable
dilemma If he to prescribe officers he will
expose himself to the charge of violating his word. Ii
he refuses crafty the applications of his eager part-
sans, he dsappoins their hopes and provokes their re-
In the first case he exasperates his enemies
and disgusts every impartial In the last, he
ofends his friends Take whatever he may, he
sees the breakers before him. He finds himself, too,
surrounded by jarring elements in his cabnetsome
of whom are liberal, and others are proscrptive.
1t is easy see however, that the President cannot
resist the storm which is about to bear him down. The
first month has gone bya month of anxious aspiration
and OF imporunate persecution. He has attempted TO
shut his door upon the office seekers by throwing them
upon his Secretaries They their part, attempting
to evade the hunters and dodge their harassing vista
tons They found some excuse, too. in the pressing
urgersy of other public business. But now when the
Oh is lhcl
ears and when the appeals of the wing press them for
little patience and little delay begin to wear out, the
swarm is becoming voracous in proportion to the
hope deferred The cabinet is in state of duress; and
requires more moral nerve than the President and his
liberal Secretaries possess to resist the outdoor camor
and the argument of his proscnptve friends. We
look forward therefore, to the second month as more
anxious and bitter than the first and accordingly the ru
mors of removals begin TO thcken upon us We hear OF
others whose heads TO be taken off, and the "Naonal
Wing of yesterday adds two victims 10 the list
"Ignatius Mudd, of this city, yesterday (Wednes
day. appointed Commissioner OF Public Buildings, in the
place of DR. Douglas, removed.
Thomas Ftnam is appointed warden OF the penitenti-
ary,' in the place of Mr. SenRstack removed
Thus we go. The case of DIR. Douglas is singular
enough Let say, it appears rather hard one for
after charges had been made against him. and specifca
tons had been called for, before opportunity was
allowed him of making his defence and after this
mockery of public and impartial justice, he is turned
adrift Far better would it have for him, he had
been prescribed at once for then, said on We'd
nesday last he would have utored his feelings, and
borne his fate with patience, if not with dignity Far
better would it have been for the administration to
have met the question in direct and decided manner
once, than thus to have tantalized the victim.
AS to Mr.. Fitnam's appointment it is marked by
single feature of "no- party measure He is
decided whigutra in his feelngs-formerly of the
violent of the correspondents of the New York
Herald-violent against Mr.. Polk, and violent in his
opposition to his administration and the
Let the axe, however be sharpened as it may. Let
head after head be stricken off The democrats will
trembe or shrink AS in ls4l, will it be in 1919.
We say, "HEADs OFF; but Notwithstanding, UP"