The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-12

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that the popular sentiment OF this country is sound and
ancouptedthat the democratic press is very generally
responding to the resolution Of Mr. Bradbury, calling
upon General Taylor for his reasons for the immense
number Of removals which haye been made during his
administration. and under circumstances which imply
either moral or official delinquency on the part Of the
persons removed From the responses which we have
already received the course Of Mr. Bradbury appears to
be almost universally sustained by the democracy Of the
nation The late demonstrations OF public opinion on
this point leave no room to doubt that is the solemn
judgment Of the great democratic party OF the Union that
Gen. Taylor should be required publicly to reract the
calumny which his solemn pledges before his election,
reiterated his inaugural address, and his wholesale
violation Of them since he entered upon the duties Of his
Office. imply in every instance in which democrat has
been removed from Office We have already copied into
columns the opinions Of several OF cotemporares
and give below article from the Buffalo Daily
Courier:
"LooK TO THE SENATE BIN order TO correct Judgment
upon the conduct OF the present administration, all the
plecedents should be laid before the Senate and compare
Execuuv ."-B.6aio Express
This in reference the resolution OF Senator Bradbury
Of Maine, which calls upon the President furnish the
coordinate branch of the appointing power the Senate
with all information touching the removals from office that
were preferred against Office ncumbents The proposition
of the Express very absurd and impaccabe one and
Yet no democa would object to going back and examining
the precedents Of democratic Presidents.
Our neighbors be assured thar presidents will be
found to justify the wrongs which Mr. Bradburys resolution
has reference They without precedent they
without Justification. The editors Of the Express have
heard Of democratic Executives removing wings from Office
upon political gronndsof their preering their political
friends their political enemies when they had offices
bestow; but this has been done openly and aboveboard
there has been miserable subteroge adopedno sknk
ing resortng to expedens make the appear
be whathey were not Did any democratic President be-
lore his election, write Allison letter get
ay, ctionby promising that his administration should
not be partisan and then 10 justify the most ultra
craftsmanship, indiscriminate removal from Office, adopt
the fraudulent system OF setting political hacks work.
hunting charges prefer against their neighbors?
Did democratic President attempt make himself
appear consistent with his pledges by adopting system
In every neghborhood where there office incumben
OF unleashng packs OF hounds hunt down their chaac
ters and regulations? Did democratic President ak
for charges TO be made against Office incumben have
them supplied TO ORDER upon them, upon hem
without allowing those charged any opportunity OF defence
or justiiicaon Will not the editors OF the Express allow
that this is something newTay orism shall have ca
1.-THE trying Of men and executing the without allowing
them any opportunity OF defencea
II not that wing President prefers his whe friends,
dispensing oce, that democrats plain. But is that
he attained to the dspensaon Of office by false professions
and them paiae his bad faith mend his broken prom
ises adopts system at with all the precedents OF his
Predecessosone which denies rhe assaled accused
the right Of scltdefence. This Is the wrong which Mr.
Br6aburys resolution aims expose 1t is to be hoped
that will pass viii expose the frauds that have been
racrsed, and strip the President OF his miserable apology
for broken promises And il is further hoped that the
Senate in all cases where the nominees of the President
identified with these rauds-these false yarte accusa-
oas against those whom they exercise
prerogatve and thus the appointment others
attained with the wrongs that have been alluded to-
The closing paragraph Of the preceding article contains
allusion pregnant with meaning showing concusvey
the propriety and necessity OF the call upon General
Taylor which Mr.. Bradbury's resolution proposes II is
10 the fact that very many Of the charges upon which
democrats have been removed trumped up By the
usryPersons oho got their Offices There is. therefore,
popriey in calling upon General Taylor for the charges
and for the names of their authors; for no honorable
man will say that the knaves, il there are any SUCH
who have obtained Office on charges manufactured by
themselves their friends and preferred against the
ncumbents should not be rejected by the Senate And
General Taylor, If an honorable man. will not withhold
the charges made under such circumstances or the
names Of the persons who made them.
In connexion with this subject, copy the following
appropriate comments from the New York Globe, the
editorial charge OF whchfortunaiey for the cause OF
democracyhas passed into the hands Of John s. Du Soe
esq. late Of the Philadelphia Times The Globe says
The reader will perceive from what have said tina
we are BY no means seeing the Offices filed by
wings We will go stop further, and add that If the
wings turn democrats offices In order TO get them
for their use, nothing OF the way in The pro-
ceeding. except that IL conflicts rather awkwardy with
those sntproscrpfve doctrines have been preached
for many by wing editors and orators yet no
supposed that the wings their period Of
victory would ever allow their preaching stand the
way OF their practice presume that this conflict
for what u really snohing But in spite Of sent-
enfs rather because Of Them hold that the Senate
should reject nineens of the appointments have beap
made since the inauguration OF President Taylor The tide
OF man TO that he has fairly purchased cannot
with justice be disputed but tide OF man 70 an estate
that he has Obtained through the practice Of fraud
quite so clear and when he fails establish IT, all good
people rejoice Now, the wings stand in precisely the DO
son of individual who has obtained property by fraud
uent Practices They elected their candidates in 1913 by
tho success Of piece Of shabby uckey such any other
party would have scorned TO be guilty OF.
II was pretended throughout the that
suited in the election Of General Taylor that he whg
that his elevation to the presidency would necessarily
imply the establishment Of wings in all places Of aud
emolumen while there abundant evidence that he was
supported the ground that he would neither remove
from appoint them Office because OF their olit.
cal sentiments His presidency his supporters said
TO be OF good feeing-a time In which every man
should be ut full liberty entertain whatever political
opinions he liked best without the fear Of being prescribed
Il he ht express them Then the Presidents
declaration that he should from Office
cept for incspacty dishoncsyad declaration made his
inaugural address, and which charmed the country, that
k.4g k..l.