The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-14
An Administrative Poiicy-Nim General Taylor have

We not alone in propounding the question, whether
or not this administration is TO have system of
policy upon which i, proposes to administer the gov
ernnent Some of the leading advocates of Gen 1ay-
ors election anxiousy, and with apparent alarm for the
future make the same inquiry and urge the adminstra.
ton to develop its system of policy, and to inform its
friends what they to contend for and its enemies
what they are to contend against Not long since, the
New York Courier and Enquirer whose editor has been
mportunng the administration for foreign appointment,
remarked that
.ons thing is certain. locooco activity mnst be met by
other weapon than inert confidence and hope
There must be administrative policycear, comprehen
sve adapted the wants of the country and cchong the
public sentiment The government must be conduct ted
upon planshaped to attain some certain, definite
end, and fitted the wishes and the views of the
great body of the administration party throughout the
Union"
Commenting upon the article from which the paragraph
above was extracted. the New York Herald says:
'.Wc agree therefore, with contempt that there
must be AN administrative policy, plain, clear and com
prehensve adapted the wants OF the county, and echo
ing the public sentiment What is that policy be Has
contemporary any idea undscloed in such mport
aiter He is decided enough in his declaration Of
the necessity for the adoption of certain policy he
pared to point the way in which the necessity to be
met, We have formed conceptions the subject,
and shall not hesitate place them before the cabinet and
the country take their chance with those OF other adj
visers. Will contemporary upon similar I'M
bosoming of himself There in popular
Staesmanship. under such political sys-
is confined departments and bureaus at
Washington. Intellect is free, and often it able form
views and display greater skill than
be with in the departments aud bureaus of govern
Within the last month, the navigation laws of Eng
land have been revolutonized Should the United States
that overture in the spirit of and com
humanity, or like haggler in Wall street who
tends for onehalf Of per cent brokerage in the price
change of opinion Yes; mus, have adminstra-
tive policy respects both foreign and domestic affairs
that the hubbub about the distribution of the spos is
nearly over"
Thus the leading Taylor presses of the country
calling aloud upon the administration for system Of
administrative policy, which they regard imperously
necessary at the present time order enable the wing
party 10 stem the torrent of 90 ocofoco activity which
even threatens the frail bark of federalism with de-
siucton. But, what is to be the policy which they so
loudly demand So far these presses concerned we
are left in doubt They know nothing of the intentions
of the cabinet, and propose system themselves And
we are equally in doubt. When we scan the gloomy
horizon of whigery, we nothing but darkness,
doubt and contradiction. The elements of which
the party is composed. seem to be in commoion
and clashing with each other. The high priests of
whigery, like the fallen spirits of Pandemonum
seem themselves 10 be by the ears. Their counsels
contradictory and begeIent the cabinet of Satan
when the war with Heaven debated. The Boston
Atlas sort of Moloch, the ercest spirit in the dark
concave goes for the repeal OF the subreasuy, and, of
course the establishment of national bank, or the re-
suscitaton of the State bank system. The Journal of
Commerce insists that the system shall remain substan-
tally untouched; while, the other hand, the Phia-
delpha North American contends for the necessity of
"remodeling the tariff the sub treasury, and adopting
wise system of internal improvements"
But if determined to render the conflict and argon
of wing counses obstreperous and dscordant the
National Whig-he fayorite organ of the administra-
ton-steps in and proclaims astonished whgery that
there shall be national bank, and high protective
tariff 1t says:
1t prophetic vision to discover that President
Tayor's administration will be- in character all its
ardent friends could desire. Wing in all its nature will
not be ultra No national bank, no high prohibiting tariff
Centralized measures, resistance to the spirit OF the
age, viii be advanced In all its phases ii will be whig
ma tonal whig with platform strong enough aud broad
enough for all true friends of the country stand
upon National in its impulse, it will resist all attempts
the of foreign powers to interfere in the public affairs
of this continent 1t will resent indignes offered from
abroad rcpel any invasion Of territory what
State may be assaed, and manner sympath-e 10Th
enemy"
Now, what are we outsiders to do amid these arring
elements of discord in the Taylor camp We cannot
dictate we cannot advise. We only humbly in
qure what to be the policy of this lustrious and
markable administration
But seriously, what contrast does il present to the
administration of Mr. Polk. When he came into power
his system of policy was declared, and was known to
both friends and foes from the day OF his inauguration
Texas was be annexed, the Oregon question be set
ed our difficulties with Mexico 10 be adjusted, the tariff
be modified and the independent treasury TO be estab
shed These wera prominent and well-defned meas
ues which the people understood, and promptly rallied
to sustain; and the result was, their triumphant
plishment and The country reaping the
benefits of that glorious and splendid system OF admins
trative policy which will not fail to mark the admins
traion of Mr. Polk the most brilliant in our history.
But what has the present administration done TO dis
tinguish itself, or even to establish platform upon
which its anxious and terrified supporters rally and
stand in its defence? Nothing, nothing but the most
shameful violation of the pledges by which it attained
power, the adoption OF the most unjust and infamous
system OF party prescription which ever witnessed
in free country, the most dsgracefu scramble for Office
the part OF lis friends, and the subugaton of the
nominal President to the will of the cabinet Such is
the sorry, disrepuabe, and notifying spectacle which