The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-05-27

The wing press is unwttngly reacherous to ITS own
cabinet 1t deceves them about the public sentiment 1t
would persuade them that the system of prescription,
which they practising in the very face OF their own
pledges popular with the people correspondent OF the
Baltimore Patriot, who writes from Washington on Thurs
day last under the signature Of mixes up with some
venomous abuse upon ourselves (Which regard only
the idle windy the most gratui,ous and deceptive
representations Of the public sentiment He ''assures
he ADMINISTRATOR "that the public judgment is entirely
suspended and will not be made up until their whole
policy in regard to removals, and its course OF measures
generally, are developed" He cheers them TO the
work Of prescription. He begs the office hunters not to
be impatient, for the bloody work will certainly go
on ait requires Solomon TO divine (says he) whether
the administration will stop in the work OF decapltaton
II certainly will no until at least oneha OF the offices,
or more, are shared by General Taylor's friends"
Such writers these, and such presses the worst
friends that the administration meet with They
deceving them single strong article from democratic
paper tells truth than thousand such columns of
silly fummery and sickenng adulation like this Let
no, the fact be concealed palliated The admin
s,ration is losing ground every day with the people
1t is mourning their Indignation and almost their con-
tempt They see that the President is not fit for the
evil hour have elevated him by their and devices
They see in him general who would have had the
courage to face twenty thousand Mexican bayoRets,
now qualing beneath the responsibilities Of his present
position, because he is in false position-wthout expe
rience-wiihout information in civil Misunderstanding nc
confidence himself-lle will of his own, and
saly dependent upon others for advice and assistance
The cabinet to whom be looks for council and direction
is itself ILL assor,ed"a tesseated piece OF Mosaic
here bit of black stone, and there bit Of white
Mr. Ewing always man OF great self confidence
and Of the strongest w-the only vowel among all
the consonants, which gives voice TO too many of the
rests urging the fall of the with a pro.
scripve spirit as relentless death itself. 1t wa:
most unfortunate that new Office of such exten.
sive powers interior affairs should have been
created this time, be administered by genius like
Mr.. Ewing; and he is taking the most direct &c
abolish department which the experience of half cea
fury has shown no, to be essential 10 the administration
of the government. He is making general sweep in hi
extensive Department of the Interior of receivers regis
tiers, &c. &C., and by his spirit animaling his col
leagues to initiate his example. If prescription, in the
face too of the most solemn noparty pledges has gone
far already Ito parody the words OF the Patriot" cor
may we not expect year hencei"
| We have no right to airise the cabinet It's friends
might deem il presumption; and they would ridicule VI
for pains We change the phrase, therefore and
them agans; listening to such normants and suct
advisers the wing correspondent who has called forth
these hasty lines from pen. The public ludgmen
is mol suspended" The people are not taking par
with them. We know The people better than susl
men, He may call this presumption, too, il he pleases
but we repeat il: we know the people OF this coun
try too well-we have studied them too closely-wt
are too well acquainted with the general characte
of our countrymen-we understand too much of then
"from the loop holes OF retreaf-from our ex
tensve exchange of transportation various pri
vate correspondence all that we see and all thai
we hear-not 10 know that administration has eve
lost much ground in short time. The people ar,
Disguised with the prescription which prevails in th,
land. His friends, the Taylor democrats, begin II
be aenated from him. They indignant at the pledges
which have been violated General Taylor is not sus
peced of enjoying the pain OF these removals. but tina
very circumstance by showing the infrmty of his pur-
pose. and the incompetency of his qualifications weaken
his reputation for moral force. and is bringing his admin
istration into contempt. Let him dismiss such men al
Fitz Henry Warren from his confdencelet him ares
this ruthless spirit of proscrptionet him show hmse
to be the President of the people, and OF party ant
if he retrieve the ground which he has airead,
lost he may prevent too rapid descent into the abyss
to which he will otherwise be destined
We scarcely lose the House of Representatives il
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