The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-25
THE REPUBLIC.
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LOCOFOCO CONVENTION IN IOWA.
Tactic, OF the Opposition.

Tactic, OF the Opposition.
| We have already stated that at Locofoco
Conventions, recently held in Iowa and
Maine, resolutions manufactured out of
the staple of the Union's daily calumnies
against General TAYLOR and his Cabinet
were adopted and trumpeted to the world
as the voice Of the Democracy of those
two States. The Union heralds these
crystallizaions Of partizan rheum as the
voice Of the sovereign people, whilst it
treats the people themselves--those who
make Presidents, the million voters who
elected General TAYLOR to the Chief Ma
gistracy-As motley crew or deluded
rabble. The Iowa resolutions, like the
others, speak of General TAYLOR as vio-
lator of pledges, cipher, as devoid Of
honest prnciple-indeed, follow the ex-
emplar of his traducers here in Wash
ington. We are quite content to have the
Union regard the frantic shriekings of dis
appointed spoilsmen as the voice of the
sovereign people; for ourselves, we shall
continue b listen to the decisions of the
ballot-box for what the sovereigns have
to say.
The burden of the reproaches denounced
against the Administration is "proscrip-
ton 1.-THE loss Of the spoils. With how
much sincerity the Locofocos of Iowa join
in the chorus of the Union, facts will
show.
The bulk of the patronage of the Gene
raj Government in Iowa is lodged in the
hands Of the surveyor general Of that dis
trict. His deputies scour the whole coun-
try, ana his contracts for surveying amount
to larger sums than all the other public
revenues of the State, federal and local,
put together. This Office is held by Mr..
BoorH, Locofoco, through whose exer-
tons, and those who expected contracts
from him, the State was carried for the
Opposition, and the election of two oppo-
sition u. S. Senators secured. The con-
vention which passed the insulting and OBJ
noxious resolutions knew this fact and
yet the Administration is denounced for
its prescription, and the President scoffed
as cipher. The opposition gentlemen
from Iowa, who made interest for Mr..
Booth, very probably instigated those re-
solutions-if they did not participate in
their formation; we shall look in vain for
any refutation of them on their part.
1t needed no additional facts to prove
that the clamor set up against the removals
which have taken place is a systematic at
tempt to bully the Administration. The
Opposition required the Cabinet to carry
on the public business without the aid of a
single individual known to them. The
first removal made to bring into the pub.
lie service somebody whom the members
of the Cabinet ever saw, was seized upon
as a pretext for the imprecations which
have, since then, been hurled against the
President with ceaseless denunciation. It
is sheer system of bravado intended to
intimidate the Cabinet into keeping around
them, and in public employments through
out the country, officers who sympathize
in the hatred of their detractors.
The President has not confined his appoint
ments to his peculiar friends, or the friends
of any of the distinguished leaders of the
party. He has gone further, and appoint
ed to office individuals of the Opposition
those who voted for CAss and BUTLER.
But whether he remove or retain men in
ofhce-whether he appoint Wing, Demo-
crat, or Locofoco-it is all one to the OPP
position. The torrent of abuse rolls on,
gaining volume and momentum in its
course.
We should imagine that the members Of
the Cabinet, who know the baselessness of
the clamor which is manufactured out of a
few removals, have by this time fathomed
its object. If the people believe what the
Union and its followers say, they must
think that there are no Locofocos left in
Office. The Cabinet know how this is.
They know that even now the Wings are
prescribed party. They have seen the
Presidents leniency requited with the
grossest abuse. They have been let to
know that public officers who have lam
pooned the Administration and the resi-
dent in terms of insult and bitter scorn,
"less deserved" removal than the rest
who have been retained. They have had
taste of the bitterness of those who hold
over from the last administration. Need