New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-27
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To the Editors Of The Tribune
Through the medium of your independent and
widely circulating paper ask permission, as
Wing subaltern who has done some service for
eighteen years past in the Wing cause, to tell
to the public some hometr relative to the line
of policy, in certain matters of removals and ap
pointments, of the present Wing Administration
| will "nothing extenuate nor set down aught in
malice 1t will be more in sorrow than In anger
that will give my home-truths and make my
structures What l write shall be reliable and az
courteously couched as circumstances will war.
rant. You may agree with me or not You may
condemn or refute my positions. My motto is
g Strike, 6uthear," wish the public to hold me-
and not you, responsible and accountable for what
ever my pencilings may be worth. am but an
anonymous writer So wish to be considered
but if should trench too hard upon any officials
sepsibilities, You know who am and where am
to be found to answer for the msdeeds which may
be alleged to have been done by the pen.
Although am no Seward man, yet l hold
that it is not good policy to attempt to drive Mr.
SEWARD and his many Wing FRIENDS out of the
WING party He and his peculiar Wing adherents
NAV have and hold their higher law notions as
well as their religious tenets, whatever they may
be, and l care not, SO that they do not get their
higher law notions nor their religious tenets en-,
grated on to the laws of the country. Mr.. SEW
ARD is a very able, strong and popular man. tie
has the power Of making and keeping more
friends in one year than Mr.. President FILLMORE
could make in a lifetime If Mr. SEWARD and
liz fr h.,f ~ ont n
party, that party would be nowhere. Unless the
old Wing and Democratic parties are to be both
broken up and merged in new parties, the CLAY
WEBSTER and FILLMORE Wings will do well TO
hold on to and not separate from the SEWARD
Wings. ,.;..,
But it is not upon this theme that this series OF
pencilings is commenced. The policy OF the Ad
ministration in the matter OF removals ana ap-
pointments, is to be attended to.
Mr. President FILLMORE and the members OF
his Cabinet are excellent and worthy W hlgs ana
most high. minded and upright men. But In pohcy
they are mere boys. They have no moral courage.
They are afraid the very shadows OF Loco-Focos
And they are also afraid OF the ghosts OF the dead
Galphins. They dare not give place to any one
who ever exposed and denounced those detunct
Galphns. Just look at the state of the case
CHARLES NJ. CONRAD, good man and worthy
Wing, signed Il report in favor of the Galphin al
lowance and made a speech ustiying the opera.
ton. He is Secretary Of War. Mr. ALLEN A.
HALL resigned the office of Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury to edit The Republic and defend
the Galphn allowance. He did defend it until he
nearly ruined The Repudiic and then gave up the
task Fl has since been employed IN the Treasu-
ry Department, and it is rumored that ne is to
have a Charge dAfaireship abroad Mr. CHAs
T.. CLARK member Of the House OF representa-
tives from New York, was induced to make a
speech in defense of the Galphin allowance. He
ran for reelection, and the people OF his District
threw him overheard, Yes but he ran ahead OF
his Wing associates-eyen WAsHINGToN HUNT.
Ed. Ira6
Mr. KING of New-Jersey, signed the Report
lustifying the Galphn allowance and made a
speech in it's support His district has since gone
to the-L oco Focos But would not have done
30 bad he been a candidate for reelection. Ed.
T1i6.
Mr. DODGE the excellent and worthy Assistant
Secretary OF the Treasury, stoutly defended the
Galphin allowance at the time it was under dis,
cussion, in the Neac Orleans bulletin, which paper
he then edited.
On the other hand Mr.. JAMEs BROOKS, the only
Wing Member of Congress who took the bull by
the horns and exposed and reprobated the odlous
Galphin allowance, has been reelected by an
overwhelming majority.
The truth is, the Galphin swindle "stlnks IN
the nostrils OF the people" And yet the Admin
isration is afraid to dsplace those who allow IT,
arraien the members of the Cabinet, Jointly
and singly, for not doing their duty to the wing
party. They have no right to seat themselves
in their cushioned ak thousand dollar seats and
proclaim that they are satisfied and contented,
and therefore, that all the Wings OF the country
who have been striving and struggling the last
twenty years to put their mighty highnesses
where they now happen to be, ought to be salts
hes and contented also! 1.-THE subordinate offices
are of any value, the honest and capable Wings,
who have done good service in the cause OF our
party, have as good right to them as the Loco.
Focos who are in a majority OF them IN most OF
the Executive Departments. Yea, betterrlght.
But how stands the TACT
Mr. Secretary CoRWIN who has kept the prom
Use of hope to the ears of anxious and deserving
Whigs for months past, to be broken to the hope
at the end of every month, has managed to APP
point and promote about as n any Loco.tocos as
Wings | have q list Of their names and know
what / state. He restored two rank and raold
Loco Foco partisans Mr.. CUNN1NGHAM and MIR.
PEARcE, whom Mr.. MEREDITH had removed from
the Third Auditors office. He appointed Mf.
GARNER, another rabid Loco FocO, to Messen
gers office, after Mr. GARNER had trumped up
small Galphin claim Of S2,25O and had It above
and paid for alleged extra services when preyl-
ously holding the same office OF Messenger In
this matter Mr.. CoRWIS openly contesses that he
was imposed upon. Why then, not remedy the
evil at once by removing Mr.. GARNERl-a thing
he has not yet done. Some TWO months ago Mr.
CoRwIN was reliably reminded that WILLIAM
GRAHDIN and CHARLES ALBERT, two expert Loco
Foco writers and electioneerers, had been re
tanned as Clerks in his Department and paid 500
EACH at the end of every month, ever since the
inauguration OF President TAYLOR, although mel.
Their of them had any desk or duties to perform
in said Department! The Secretary smiled and
minated that that error should be at once cor
rected. Yesterday the two sinecure Loco-Foc
gentlemen were still under pay, and it was sur
missed that Mr.. CoRwIN might promote them to
higher salary One, of them, Mr.. ALERT, is a
lawyer and claim agent, and the brotherln.law
Of Mr.. ROBERT j. WALKER.
Mr. CoRwlN has been much lauded Of late for
his recent mastery effort to put down Nepottsm-
Heremoved young Mr. BARNES whom he had pre-,
viously appointed to a cerkship in the Second
Auditors Office because the young man father,
Major BARNES, had obtained cIerkship in the