The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-27

the wings have been unusty prescribed by the late ad
minstraon, and almost excluded from all participation
in civil Office So far this from being in any
or degree the utmost bety has been extended to good
and capable men of the wing party in all the Offices In
Washington there are men of information and honor OF
both parties in every wardn fact. every honorable and
impartial man in the whole city-who bear direct
testimony, from their personal knowledge OF the
groundlessness of the false impression thus attempted to
be made Our only surprise is, that such assertions are
made and copied from other less respectable papers into
journal of the lneligencers Acknowledged respecta-
bility, in the midst of intelligent community where
they are SO universally known to be untrue.
We have not gone into the public Offices to search for
details. to procure names, and count up noses but
friend in whose integrity and judgment repose every
confidence, has taken up the official registers of the Off
GERS of government, and traced the state of list of chief
clerkshps in four of the departments for series OF from
twenty thirty years backhough long years Of demo-
cratic ascendency-and find the following be the
conclusion in regard to them. We disposed to be-
eve that there is not single error in the classification
If there be- we will promptly correct it it is
pointed out or discovered 1t showsa liberality and
degree of fixed federation in the late well former
democratic administrations, to which the tolerant declara
tons of General Taylor in his naugural-as General
TAYLOR himself intended that declaration to be under
stood-might almost be prefxed as motto
On the 3otk of September, si7, with the changes
ted as having taken place since, and in which condition
Mr. Folks administration left them, the chief clerkshps
OF the following departments and bureaus filed
noted by ncumbcnts OF the wing and democratic par
ties We do not give the names OF the clerks. because
modest and coed (as believe them TO be- have
very Just dislike to seeing their paraded in
papers 1t is the division Of the Offices between the par
ties and not between individuals, that wish pre-
sent fairly to our readers and the country:
List Of chief clkship., ard the polite. Of the inesmen,
March. lsi9 and Of the politics Of the neHmbsnts Of sad
Offices tn precious years
State Department-acting chief clerk, wing
Treasury OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES clerk, democrat
War Departnent-chef clerk, democrat
Navy Department-chet clerk, democrat
First Comptroller's otice-chief clerk wing.
Second Conptroler's office-chef clerk, democrat
First AUDITORS oice-chet clerk democrat; but had been
held up death OF the previous Incumbent 80 years. by
wing, alias federast.
Second AUDITORS oice-chief clerk democrat; but had
been filed Tor IS years, up to lsi5, by wing
Third Auditors ocechief clerk, wing SO held for last 30
Fourth Auditors oce-chef clerk, whg held for las,
years. -.
SIKH Auditor ofhce--chief clerk, democrat.
rreasurefs ofce-chef clerk. whg held for last IL
Solicitors ofiice--chef clerk, WING.
Commissioners OF General Land Oficechet clerk demo-
Recorder of General Land Oicc-chief clerk whg; held
for last 4 or years.
Indian bu reau-chief clerk, democrat.
Pension oceche clerk, democrat since 1913, when the
former wing incumbent died
Engineers Doparttnent-chief clerk, whig
Ordnance Department-chefcl clerk, wing
an utct na I'M mi
Pay Depar,ment-chcf clerk, Wing, Tor last Is years
Medical Dcparment-chief clerk, wing
Commanding Generals ofice-chief clerk, wing.
Adu,ant Generals oiiiee-chief clerk wing.
saa on Yards and xSs
Bureau of Ordnance and HydIog clerk, wing
Bureau Of Provisions and clothing clerk. whis
Bureau of Medicine and SurGery-shiefc clerk, whig
Here, in list of Miry-Mrse chief clerkshps, only
lcelue are held by democrats, and of these of
cent appointment, while tUentyone almost two for one
are held by wings This proportion. and formerly in
proportions unavorable for the democrats, is the
in which they have been held through the
late administration. now falsely charged with proscnp
ton Has Gen Taylor, or the members of his cabinet
such of them to the detailed official organ!
cation of Washington-been fully and fairly informed
of these facts
While falsely imputed prescription was charged against
the late administration and every semblance OF removal
from Office charged being such, and violation OF
every principle of justice during the whole of Mr. Folks
term by the National Inegencer, is it not fresh in the
recollection OF every citizen of Washington that the
most rigid prescription of all democrats from corporation
Offices from the highest TO the lowest annually and
daily pracsed by the wing city councils, which one
Of the publishers and propretos of the lntegencer pre-
sided as mayor-as chie' Did the integencer or its
proprietor referred to- ever object to this system of city
prescription? Removals, however, by Mr.. Folks
administration, for whatever cause-of incompetent
CIV, neglect of duties, intemperance, or dishonesty
where the parties removed wings, have been,
without inquiry or classification, summed up, and
alleged in the aggregate prescriptions. For such
and always where such causes were discovered
democrats as well as wings invariably removed by
the late administration this city and everywhere else
in the States For opinions sake and political opinions
sake alone no man, sure, was ever removed by
Mr.. Polk, or the members of his cabinet though he
came into power with no pledges on his lips on the
subject.
FIN both Organs.]
Appointments by the President.
Posr DEPARTMENT.
DEPUTY postn,astsrs.-John s. McCully, Trenton, New
Jersey; Samuel Ware, Kensingion, Pennsylvania Tho
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