Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-05-10
THE CRY OF PRESCRIPTION.

The National Intelligencer admins
ers 10 the Union which is now bitterly
'ewailng and piously condemning the
Of Gen. Taylor's admins
lration, some wholesale lessons, drawn
from its own columns, when similar
complaints with far greater justice,
we're made of Mr.. Polk.
At first il seems, the Union was very
cautious in touching upon the subjec,
of removals. On the 9Th Of May ls45
soon after its establishment, il held forth
in this wise.
"Mr Polk lie no butcher He says free-
ly, that, OF oil his public duties, this is the
most painful TO man OF any sensiblity.-
But removals must be made. The number
OF Democrats who have been pushed from
their stools by Wings, Of itself, opens the
road 10 new removals. Yet the Admnistrs.
ton pursued a calm and comparatively mod
crate course. They are taking time 10 look
around, and are removing such as the public
interest requires to be substituted by others.
the number is, OF course not yet complete
As time shows the propriety Of further re
movals, Mr., Polk will act from o sense OF
public duty, however it may conflict with his
own private feelings"
Full soon, however, says the Intelli.
gencer, the Union joined the hunt in
the cry. Read its following general de-
fence of The Proscrip,ive course of Mr..
Folks Administration a few weeks after
the preceding remarks; and, in reading
remember that the Union n o W maintains
that the Offices of the government ought
to be equally divided between The two
parties:
FIom the Union of July "a, 1916.
"Ths removals which have been made
have been imperiously called for by decided
and irresistible public sentiment. Other
removals will no doubt DO necessary. and
will not be prevented by the senseless elamor
OF the Wings. Justification oil a measure
is uncslled for when overwhelming popular
approval sanctions it. An Administration
placed in power by the voluntary suffrages
OF free people, and ndustrously engaged
in carrying out The piH Of that majority
securely rests its confidence in the honesty
and intelligence Of the masses, and in the
present case is in no danger Of being divers
ted from its purpose by the interested revil.
ings Of bitter opponents"
Without multiplying quotations, and
70 come at once nearer TO our own
time, we find that in the Union" of the
5,h March, ls47, the editor laid be.
fore his readers, with unaffected pleas.
ure, in his editorial columns, the results
of the Democratic State Convention,
which sat at Harrisburg four days pre-.
viously which embraced the following
among among other resolutions:
"Resolped, That the removal from the ID
rious Offices at Washington OF EVERY opro
EENr OF THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION, or
Of Democratic principles and measures, ha,
been long called for, and is alike demanded
by the voice OF the Democratic party and
the best interests Of the contry, and ought
not to be longer postponed or delayed"
Still later, and as ifto make it an is.
sue in the Presidential election then al
hand, the Union" of Sept. 90, ls4s
transferred TO it's columns, with the
stamp of its appreciation, the following
from the New York True Sum-" di.
rected against the Free Soil" division
Of the Democratic party.
1.-THE soreheaded and Federal papers in
this State are just now whining orer the re
moral of some thirty or forty disunion post
masters. Forgetting that they are advocates
for prescription to the bitter end when in
power themselves, they discourse with
well. feiened paihos over the cruelty OF re.
moving nam otfice for opinions sake"
The subjoined ie.ler frcm the late
Second Assistant Postmaster General
the very martyr" whose blood, saith
the Union. is TO be the seed of the church
will show on what ground these re.
movals were made which the Union"
then defended and justified. |, was in
reply TO an inquiry by some New York
Postmaster as to ,chy he was removed,
that this letter was written:
APPOINTMENT OFFICE. P o. DEp'r, J
July &c. lS4S. {
Sir-Your letter has been received and
submitted 10 the Postmaster General. |
think your reasons for abandoning the Dem
ocraIic party wholly unsatisfactory. The
Postmaster General has heretofore refused 10
listen 10 applicants for tho removal OF Post
masters for such reasons. Bu, the party to
which you are now attached having taken
ground against the administration. and the
regular nominee Of the party for President,
do not see how the administration can fur
ther refuse to act in these cases, without subs
jecing it 10 the charge OF lending its inhu
ence TO defeat the candidate OF the party.