The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-03-29
WARRINGTON, March "A, l8l9.
The Spoils-T The Public Primti~g, &c.

The Spoils-Ihe Public Printing, &c.
1t 10 not moro notorious that Governor Marcy
Che falls back on the plain Governor now)-that
Governor Marcy charged the item OF five dimes,
in the federal coin, for certain fundamental repairs
OF his trowsers, than that he the founder of the
political ceuntersagn that "to the victors belong
the spoils" The principle has been established
tor thousands of years, but to the Governor be-
longs the credit of introducing it by confession as
the ruling element of our political elections.
1t is a principle which it is impossible to resist
and not until all the federal Offices worth having
turned over to the people to be disposed of IN
their elections, will the events that swarm after
every new administration be dispersed. The
cabinet and their principal officers ought to be
elected by the people at large, the postmasters by
the people of each locality to which post Office
belongs, and all the valuable Offices of every kind
should be turned over to the sovereign people.
This would abolish your office begging, and d.
minish the enormous patronage OF the federal exc
eutlve, (which has Increased, is increasing, and
ought to be diminished"
We have new swarm of expectaAss and applI-
cants, which appears to have grown up since the
last quadrennlal. A few OF the old stock are
among them but the mass are new men, from all
parts OF the Union, even from the frontiers of Mis-
souri,, and the confines of Nebraska, Arkansas,
Texas, New Mexico, and Coahuila. And they are
dctlVe cndpS; tncy WON'T take no 1Or an answer,
especially those of the crowd who have come a
thousand fifteen hundred mllest get something.
Day by day they flock to the Secretaries, and there
IL no lodging them. Let a cabinet officer appear
In the open air, and he is surrounded and followed
up like criminal let him appear at q concert,
and he Is tortured to death let him 60 to church,
and his friends cluster at the door to remind him
they will call up tomorrow; let HIM go to dinner,
and he will find his parlor full of strangers, who
just want to speak a word with HIM.
Now this sort OF pressure IS not to be resisted,
and the cabinet will have to 60 to work to weed
out the locos fast they can, they will have
no peace. "Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but
there Is no peace" MIR. Clayton has learned the
value of "hasty plate of soup" He has not had
the time tor anything more
Whatever, therefore, the administration may
resolve to do to mitigate the terms of prescription,
they must prescribe, or they themselves will be
prescribed. They will have to put men In, and to
do this, they must turn out. They are disposed to
60 on moderately, but they cannot manage alto
get er the outside pressure.
We believe the following to be the bill of ex-
penses and receipts of Wendell 6 Van Benthuy-
sen for the public printing of the last Congress
REcEHrs AND EXPENDITURES OF WENDELL AND VAN BEN
THuYskN, ON ACCOUNT OF THE PRINTING
rHIRrIErH CoNGREss
Amount Of bills for FIRST session. .$1el6 S2 90
Amount Of bills for second session, estimat-
cd (already amounting to 100000 ..... 10000 90