The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-14

Removals from ONCE.
The removals from Office under the present
Administration have been made the theme of
loud complaint and unmeasured vituperation by
some Of the leaders and many of the presses of
the Opposition. Far beyond all its contempt
raries, in the coarseness of its abuse and the
virulence of its denunciation of the PRESIDENT
for his conduct in this respect, has been the
Washington Union. That journal cannot be
sincere; its Indignation is artifcial-manufac-
tured for the occasion. The tears it has so
profusely shed over these removals were all
crocodile tears. In its heart, the Union must
feel that the course of the PRESIDENT in regard
TO removals from office is in consonance with the
principles laid down by Mr.. JEFFERSON, sane
toned by General JACKSON, and down to the
present time not repudated, but recognised and
practised upon by its own party as often as 1t
gets into power. The inconsistency between
the practice of that party when IN power, and
its course when out of power, in relation to
removals from office, is so gross as to become
ridiculous There is now before the Senate
resolution calling upon the PRESIDENT to lay
before that body ''all charges which have been
preferred or filed in any of the Departments
against individuals who have been removed from
Office since the 4th day of March last, &c."
Why, more than twenty years ago three
several resolutions involving the same prn-
clple were voted down during the same
session Of the same body, and by the same
party--the party which is now in the ascend
ant in the Senate. During the first session Of
the twenty-first Congress, in the year 1880,
Mr.. BARTON, of Missouri, introduced a resolu-
ton calling upon the President-General JACK
soN-for the reasons which induced him to re-
move THEODORE Hunt from the office Of Re
corder of Land Titles in Missouri, and also a
resolution calling upon the President for the
reasons that induced him to remove JAMES CAR
SON, Register of the Land Office at Palmyra,
in the same State. Mr.. HOLMES introduced
into the same body series of resolutions on the
subject of removals from office, the last of which
requested the President ''to communicate to the
Senate the number, names, and offices of the
officers removed by him since the last session of
the Senate, with the reasons for each removal +"
All of these resolutions, all well those offered
by Mr.. BARTON as those offered by Mr.. HOLMES,
were summarily laid on the table, or, in other
words, promptly rejected, by the majority. The
same party are still in the majority in the Sen
ate, and it remains TO be seen whether they
will repudiate and trampe under foot the prin-
cptes which they svoweS and acted upon
when member of their own party filled the
Executive chair.
While the subject was under the considera-
ton of the Senate, in 1880, our contemporary
of the Union, then Of the Richmond Enquirer,
took occasion 10 express his views in regard TO
il, which may be found in the following ex-
tract
From De Richmond Enquirer, March %, 1880.
'sPowER REMOVAL.
1.-THE Senate occupied again yesterday, in
secret session ON Executive business. OF the par
ticulars of what done, have Of course no
accurate information. Within the two days past,
. number Of nominations Of subordinate civil Off
GERS and consuls abroad understood 10 have
been confirmed. Without yielding the question,
to the right Of the Executive TO create vacancies
in Office for the purpose Of making appointments,
IL seems 10 have been conceived by majority OF
the Senate that the exercise Of the authority is one
which should, for the present, be e 10 the consti-
tutonal responsibility Of the Executive. Many
such appointments have, therefore, been confirm
ed."l
The above article IL from the National Intelligence
of the 10th instant II IL new specimen Of the art
Of qualification. Who shall decide from what mo-
tives the President does renove2 Whether with a
pisio Of making merely neD appointment, or OF
making befer appointment than the last, Of dis
missing the last officer for want Of qualifications
integrity, &c. Throwing aside then this adroii
manner OF stating the question, and bringing il
down TO the general naked proposition--has the
President the potor Of remoUai-wc scarcely be.
Iieve the National fnteigsnor has given the real
facts Of the before the Senate Of the United
States. The right Of memorial either involved IN
the late appointment or Il was not n il was not
why has IL been much argued both in closed and
In open doorsS n IL not, why does the Tntslii
ysnesr bring IL in at alli And u IL was involved
vas IL not decided by the fact Of confirmation How
coul1 the dissentients have avoided yielding the
question! Or how could they have rcconciled IL "a
themselves TO waive their o,cn right, and :" left
every thing " TO the constitutional responsibility o.
the Esecutiye5" Where was their own constitu.
tional responsibility, and did they quietly surren-
der hi
Mr.. GRuxDY, in his lucid speech on Mr. FooT''
resolution, seems 10 have settled the question
He takes Il upon the argument and the fact "Th'
President (says Mr.. Co. discovers deficiency, (ir
an officer,) IL is his duty TO remove him. and then
according 10 the argument the other side, the
case comes before the Senate, for trial. suppose
The Senate will not take the ,cH Of the President Al
the rule Of Tia decision; for IL IL should vauabl,
purpose could be obtained by the action Of the Sen
ate" Suppose the Senate should decide that th'
officer shall not be removed-say tho Secretary o
State; he is sent back the first confidential adj
wiser Of the President who has already pronounced
him unworthy Of confidence, and not fl TO be trust
ed. What kind Of a Cabinet will you have, made
up and forced 10 remain together, Of such materi
slsS Should the Secretary Of the Treasury, in tn
absence Of the Senate, be about TO secrete all tn
money Of the Government will il do TO wait 10 TAX
the advice Of the Senate TO his removal In tim
Of danger and contest, the Secretary at War is il
the act Of betraying the armies Of the United State
into the hands Of the enemy-shsll the Presiden
wait and AJAX the Senate what is TO be donc2 Tn
Secretary Of the Navy is about 10 deliver up IN
whole navy TO the enemy-shall the President pos
sess no power TO dispace him, butsit quietly by un
I'll his advisers shall convenel