The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-27

OF the United States. See Union O
the 26th.
Extract of letter from Mr.. b. o.
Brown, Assistant Postmaster General:
cit is, however, but part of the infamous sys
tenn Of this Administration, whose chief, conscious
OF the guilt of perjury in his ruthless prescription
seeks TO justify himself before the worldly attack,
ing, with bloodhound ferocity, the private charac-
ter, after taking away the means of support OF
those who stood by him in the day of trial, and
gave him all the honest fame he had, wher
they who now use him, with his own consent, tc
advance their own selfish purposes, were praying
the Mexicms TO welcome him with bloody handf
to hospitable grave"
| Extract from a letter written by Mr..
Geo. w. Thompson, late Attorney for the
Western district Of Virginia
"To THOMAS EWING, ESQ.,,
| Secretary Of the Interior.
ISM: address you; it is better, as it is easier
to deal with something Of substance than to beat
| the air or wrestle with shadow There is sense
of duty which impels the arm in striking at en-
| bodiment of evil; there is waste of time and q
want of purpose in triling with nullty. 1t was
once my Office to arraign at the bar of public opin-
| ion Tyler; but he somebody. He had
opinions and purposes of his own, and he taught
you, at least that he was man. will not arraign
| that successor, who under your malign impress
ment, has surrendered every attribute of the indie
pendent man, to be the pageant puppet of the Pre-
sidency. It is not my purpose to deal with an
imbecility," &C., &c.
Extract of a letter addressed to the Pre-
sident by Jno. A. English, lately dismissed
| from the Indian Bureau:
81 do not desire to be understood as expressing
any dissatisfaction disappointment at being re-
moved On the contrary, Notwithstanding ! have
lived up strictly to your standard, nevertheless
| expected to be removed. had no idea, however
honest you might have been in making your
| pledges, that you would be permitted by your
keepers, and the hungry mnions by which you are
surrounded, to carry them out in practice"
But why multiply extracts of this cha
racter! If we were curious in such col
lections we might fill our paper with them.
We wish the Administration and the
country to bear in mind that the writer's of
the letters, from which the foregoing ex-
tracts are taken, held ON to their Offices as
long as they could, notwithstanding their
hostility to the Administration. And,
moreover, we have the assurance of the
Union that Mr.. English ''perhaps less de-
served" dismissal than those who have
been spared. The Union ought to be au-
thority in this respect, for its junior editor
was one of the ofice-holders bequeathed
to the present Administration, with other
chattels of like value. Such are the mar
tyrs, whose blood is the seed of the Loco.
| foco church. Such are the saints, whose
sufferings flood the country with sympa-
thetic tears. We ask the people-''the mot
ley crew who elected General TAYLOR"
as they have been insultingly called by
the Opposition press-if it is their will to
see the Administration surrounded by such
hostile and scofing assistants! Are they
proper persons to aid in carrying out the
reforms they had in view in electing Cen
eral TAYLoRi Yet these are the poor in
nocents over whose dismissal the country
is summoned to howl doleful and denun-
ciatory requiem. Would it not be well for
the leaders of the choruses to set the above
extracts and similar ones to music.
But to come to the main question. The
Union has told the Administration and the
country that no one 0'less deserved" dis
missal than Mr.. English, notwithstanding
he entertained the opinions developed in
his insulting letter to the President. How
is it possible, then, for an Administration
to get along successfully, or even tolera-
bly,, with such agentsl These extracts are
not confined to the outpourings OF small
Office holders. They come from persons
who held posts next to the Cabinet Minis
tiers; from high functionaries in the coun-
try, and from clerks as well. We again
repeat tive take the statements of the
Opposition for the feeling which prevails
in the Executive and other Offices. We
say nothing from personal knowledge. The
members of the Cabinet have had the same
and other evidences before them; and If
they attach any weight to the repeated
publications Of those who have held office
under them, and still continue about them,
and in influential employments out of the
capital, individuals who entertain senti-
ments similar to those expressed in the
above extracts, will they not run the Ad-
ministration upon certain DOOM
THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF INTER-
NATIONAL LAW.
Anxious to place before our readers all
the items Of this important occurrence,
we extract from the .New York Epening
Post the following translation of the docu-