New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-15
The Bundelcund Tragedy.

| Our contemporaries Of the UAion appear to be
much distressed BY the resolutions introduced by
Mr.. Stanly in the House Of Representatives. They
think they will bring to light Stanly farce; we
| think they will prove Bundelcand tragedy.
Here have these Loco Focos been engaged for a
twelvemouth in raising outcry against President
TAYLOR for dismissing score or two Of officers in
| this city who had been VIGOROUSLY engaged in
using their Offices for purposes Of eectioneering.
| Prominent among these gentlemen were Mr..
| Burke. the Commissioner Of Patents and William
| J. Brown the Assistant Postmaster General
| These two gentlemen were members oil an Eec-
tioneering Committee and were general beggars
for moneys to be used in behalf Of General Cass,
and were associated with Mr. Foote of Miss for the
| purpose of dhusing useful knowledge through toe
land in the shape Of political pamphlets. But the
| Commissioner Of Patents was also known as the
| author Of a pamphlet published under the sigma
ture of Bundelcund." We not only never read
| one of these pamphlets, but we never saw one OF
them; and we believe that handsome reward
was in vain Ofer ed for the production OF man who
had ever read il. We suppose, If the truth were
known, it would turn out that there was never an
Individual sufficiently enterprising to have under
taken or accomplished this task. But the graya-
men OF the who matter was, that Mr.. Burke,
while Commissioner of Patents, was engaged ia
writing this party pamphlet; aud this was reason
enough for turning him out oil Office. At all events
it tends to explain the extreme personal mllevo.
lence with which be has since pursued all branches
OF Administration. This gent eman has been smart
ing under the sense Of an imaginary wrong, when
The fact is that lie ought to have been dismissed
Tor writing a stupid pamphlet, if for nothing else.
AS for VIM. J. Brown it is certainly important
20 understand fully what that Committee did.
We all know the great influence OF this gentle
man in the Loco Foco party. We all know that
l.. (ov rrff. onttI ofa rs fbn I
party for the Speakership. We all know that
Burt and Bayly, and all the Chivalry came to the
rescue Of Brown and ii is, perhaps, quite impor-
tant to know what the services which he
rendered as Assistant Postmaster General, in con.
junction with Foote and Burke which entitled him
to this distinguished consideration. We think,
therefore, that Mr.. Stanly is right in this matter.
Perhaps the affair Of national moment next to a
knowle ledge OF the authorship of B undelcund -
which is all mportant-is the knowledge OF the
connection OF VIM. J. Brown with the campaign of
lSis. We desire to see him brought up IN his
official capacity with Mr.. Commissioner Burke and
Mr. Senator FOOte. Let us know what these wor
tbies were about. Let us see the moneys they
raised. the manner In which these moneys were
expended, aud all the details OF disbursement If
these moneys were expended-or any part of
them-in distributing Bandelcund pamphlets, We
suppose that the examination will exhibit the most
pronigate waste of public funds on record. The
idea Of paying money for Bundelcund pamphlets is
one of those shocking extravagances which strike
chill TO the heart Of every economist.
IL will be very interesting, also, 10 know what
public officers in these parts absented themselves
from their duties, to make speeches in favor OF Gen.
Cass, or against Gen. Taylor. IL will be still more
interesting TO know who contributed money for the
distribution of Bundelcund pamphlets, and for
other purposes connected with the campaign. As
for the "other purposes" we should be disposed
to leniency; but as for the individuals who contri-
buted money to circulate Bundelcund, we would
have them all dismissed incontinently from the
public service. The verdancy which could seduce
them into such expenditure is proof enough OF their
incompetency to discharge the duties of the mos.
ordinary cerkship. Turn them all out. Prove that
they are Bundelcundians-andn nothing should save
them from condisn punishment. Bundelcund, in
deed IWash RanobIc