The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-05-28
From the albany Ecening Journal.
Executive interference

Correspondence Of the Journal Of Commerce.
WAsHINGToN, TUESDAY, May 81.
"The official manifestation of the hostility of the
Executive to the compromise scheme has produced
deep impression here. have witnessed the effect
of it upon the minds of southern men, who have
hitherto fervently labored to bring about compro
mise The interference of the Executive at this
time, when the question is SO much embarrassed by
southern detection and northern faction, is consid
cred weak and vindictive. As to the success of
the Presidents scheme of admitting California, and
leaving every thing else to chance, what is the pros
pect of carrying it outi"
We have seen nothing to justify this charge of
" Executive interference with the pending com
promise. Long ago, in the discharge of a consti-
tutional duty General Taylor sent in his California
message. Hecould not have withheld that message
without palpable violation of his oath. Its sug-
gestions were wise and patriotic they were
appropriate and timely. The message itself was
unexceptonable in spirit and language, and emf
nenty acceptable to the mass of the people.
But it was not acceptable to distinguished mem
bers of the Senate. different plan Of compromise
was proposed. California was hitched on to other
and entirely dissmilar projects Her admission
into the Union was made dependent upon the or
ganization of territorial governments for New Mex
leo and Utah; upon the adjustment of the bounda-
ries of Texas; upon the fugitive slave BILL and upon
the abolition Of the slave trade in the District Of Co
lumbia These antagonist schemes thus combined
urged as a substitute for the simple yet eff
cient plan Of the President. Studied efforts were
made, in various quarters, 10 create the impression
That the President had abandoned his own plan for
that Of the committee. This conversion was her
aided, as fact, by the Washington Union and its
hundred echoes. Letter writers for Wing journals
gave out similar intmations, and the public were
beginning to believe that, for the first time in his
life, Gen. Taylor had ''surrendered."
IL was while these rumors Tin such direct con-
ict with the established charactersf the Presiden
were floating through thousand channels uncon.
tradicted that the Republic stamped them as unau-
thorized and unfounded, and added that the Presi-
dent still adhered TO his own plan Of compromise,
as that best calculated to quiet existing dissensons
What Executive interference was there in
this? II was certainly proper that the widely cir
culated falsehood should be contradicted, and that
General Taylors friends should know that in gain
ing the Executive chair he has not lost his charac
ter. Those most dispieascd with this formal de-
NAL OF mischievous falsehood, willing enough
TO use that fasehood to secure friends to scheme
opposed TO that of the President. If what they
serted had been true, we would have heard nothing
about Executive interference" This accusation
is only brought against him when II is formally an
nounced that he adheres to his original position.
And there, trust, he will remain. And the
people will be gratfcd if their Representatives
shall have the wisdom TO sustain and carry through
plan 30 just and oonciliatory and well adapted
70 prompt and harmonious adjustment Of existing
difficulties. Ff.ttH