The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-04
TIL E REPU B Lie.
WASHIN GTON:
MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4, 1850
Axes and ExecutiOners.

Axes and ExecutiOners.
| We have another flourish of rhetoric in the
| Union, touching the removal of MIR. SNowDEN
| from his office as Treasurer Of the Mint of
| Philadelphia:
3" PRESCRIPTION PHILADELPHIA.
'There is no officer attached to the government
who has performed his duty with more fidelity
| and ability than Mr.. James Ross Snowden, trea-
surer of the mint. But merits services could
| save him from the of the executioner. We
understand tina. on the 3lst October, in obedience
to the mandates of the powers that be, he
rendered the keys of the mint, and all the public
treasure in that institution and also the public
moneys in the United States Assistant Treasurer
office, to his Wing successor. And thus has this
proscriptive Administration reached its Ultima
Thule. Mr.. Snowden is the last Democrat, as far
are advised, who holds Office in Pennsylva
MIA under the Federal Government The work
is now complete; and Mr.. Snowden has the dis
tinguished honor of being the last martyr in the
keystone State. Who can now recollect the
| solemn pledges under which the Wing party
| came into power, the merits of the removed Of
fcer in one of the most Democratic States of the
Union, without feeling the greatest surprise and
the most profound rcgret?'
IAi- CNoND DEN, VIC Hd'O iIo uOuDly 10 very
| good citizen, and made a very good officer.
Mr. DALE, his successor, is an equally good
! citizen, and will make an equally good officer,
with the additional merit and advantage in our
eyes of being good WING. AS to the ''pro-
found regret" which the Union feels on Mr..
SNowDEN's removal, we have no doubt it is
sincere but why it should entertain such
great surprise" is more than we can read
| lily comprehend. The idea that the WING
party were under ''solemn pledges" to retain
all the Locofoces in office is only absurd. If
there were individuals in the party that elected
General TAYLOR who entertained the idea of
conducting an Administration through the in
strumentality of its opponents, such eccentrici-
| ties cannot be cited as the pledges or promises
of the Wing party.
We will not quote AMOS KENDALL or Mr..
WALKER or the Union itself on this subject
though we might enrich our columns with very
opposite and pregnant paragraphs from these
! authorities. But there is passage apropos In
political essay of Mr.. BURKE, from which our
| Democratic friends may learn that distinguished
| statesmen and moralists of other countries have
approved the policy which the Union now con-
dennis.
"Erery honorable connection, ''-wrote Mr..
BURKE in his admirable pamphlet entitled
Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discon-
tents-"will avow it their first purpose to pur-
sue every just method to put the men who
hold their opinions into such condition as
| may enable them to carry their common plans
| into execution, with all the power and author
ity of the State. As this power is attached TO
certain situations, it is their duty to contend
for those situations. Without prescription Of
others, THEY ARE BOUND TO GIVE
TO THEIR OWN PARTY THE PRE-
{ FERENCE IN ALL THINGS; and by
| no means, for private consideration, to accept
any offers of power in which the whole body
is not included; nor TO suffer themselves to be
led, or to be controlled or to be overbaanced,
In office or in council by those who con-
tradct the very fundamental principles on
| which their party is formed, and even those
Z upon which every fair connexion must stand.
| Such generous contention for power, on such
manly and honorable maxims, will easily be
distinguished from the mean and interested
| struggle for place and emolument, The very
style Of such persons will serve to discriminate
them from those numberless mpostors who
9 have deluded the ignorant with professions
9 incompatible with human practice, and have
: afterwards incensed them by practices below
| the level of vulgar rectitude"