The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-04-17
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REORGANIZATION OF the Government at
Washington - Fatal Policy OF General
TayIor's Administration.
From the accounts which we are receiving from
Washington every day, Of private as well as of a
public character by the electric telegraph as well
a. by the mails, we cannot come to any other con-
slusion but that political matters there are in
alarming state that the government is perfectly
siserganzed, that the wheels thereof are virtually
without grease and stopped, and that if a change
for the better do not soon take place, or remedy
Cor the disease which is preying the vtals Of the
republic be not applied, evils and disasters
will befal us, which ere this have been hardly
dreamed Of. What is the condition Of our national
Affairs at Washington Congress has been five
months in session, and nothing has yet been done.
Many subjects or great anu paramount importance
" the existence, well being, and continuance W
he government, have been awaiting legislative
aston, but, up to this time, in vain. Nothing has,
m fact been done. No provision has yet been
made for taking the next census-nothng towards
poetage reform. Many attempts have been made to
nke these subjects in hand and dispose of them as
speedily as their importance demanded, but in vain.
II has been the same with the deficiency in the ap-
preparation. In a word there has been no legisla-
non since the commencement of the session, and
no measure of the many which were necessary to
be paid attention to before this has been legislated
r. Il, q mi bla
o., capacity, that there has been nothing done in
Congress, that the ordinary course of legislation
has been interrupted, if not entirely stopped, and
shat the government at Washington is perfectly dis
organized.
Now, wha, has produced this unfortunate and
much TO be depored state of affairs at the seat of
the federal government The country never was
more prosperous than il is at present. There has
been no dimnuton of patriotism among the Ameri-
can PEOPLE. On the contrary, the longer they live,
and the more they learn Of the workings of other
governments, the more they become attached to
iheir own glorious constitution and form OF govern
ncnt. The United States arc at peace with the
whole Of the world. Commerce and trade are in
meet thriving condition What, then, we repeat,
IA. produced the unfortunate state Of affairs which
We witness in Washington
One Of the remote causes is the fact, that at the
commencement of the present session of Congress,
the abolition and free soil members held the ba-
lance Of power in both the Senate and House OF
Representatives, especially in the latter, and from
The very outset of the session TO the present time
sxeried themselves by every trick and method
within their reach, 10 oppose and prevent settle
nent Of the slavery question, on the principles oi
compromise and of the constitution, and thereby
succeeded in keeping alive the agitation which
now exists in Washington. But the power which
the free coil and abolition members held could have
been easily broken, and dissipated and destroyed,
n the cabinet had taken such a course IA wisdom,
patriotism and common honesty dictated. VI fiey
had come out manflly and boldly at the first open
nq Of the session, and taken the responsibility OF
proposing a plan Of settling the whole slavery
question IN connection with the erritoriessucll
a plan as the South could have accepted and would
have accepted without being degraded and one
which the North could not refuse 10 support, unless
n wished 10 dissolve the Union, and leave itself
spen 10 the charge which il now brings against the
South what, we ask, would become Of the con-
mptible and faciious fec.soicrs and abolitioniss.
or their powerl II would have been broken and
destroyed before they had had opportunity OF
Sistracting the national councils, and nicting a
stab on the welfare Of the country. The public at
large expected such plan for settling the sa-
very question. They lived in hspe that such a
plan would lie proposed, and that it would have
sxertcd powerful influence, il indeed it would not
have entirely succeeded IN allaying the agitation.
and putting the subjec, at rest for ever. The people
had confidence in General Taylor, "a their electing
him to the highest office in their gift tesulcs. lie
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eleven foot. aud exhibited TO the satisfaction Of the
world that Gen. Tay Tor was the victim Of mis-
placed confidence in selecting them, and that they
were shaping their course. not with view TO adj
vance the interests Of the country aud the glory or
honor Of his ACKNOWLEDGMENT this was done,
the PEOPLE themselves, throughout the confedcracy,
had confidence in them. Hardly were they warm
IN tie seats to which tho good old man at the head
al the government, in his belief in their honesty.
rafriotisul. and ability 70 conduct the affairs Of
government, elevated them. than they commenced
. game that could end in nothing bat d.credii 10
,he administration which was identified with u
or tolerated II. The first act was to disregard Gen.
Tsylor's pledges anil promises IN regard TO reno
walls aud arqcintncuis. in which. previous to his
election and afterwards. in his inaugural address
he voluntarily and deliberately said he would not
make my rernovalsf or opinions sake Eight thou
sand removals during the fir, year OF General
1oylors administration, prove how falsely they
acted towards The President and the country.
Look, too. at the foreign Polcy-look at the course
which they pursued towards the llunCarians. the
Germans. the Italians. the Romans. and the people
Of ohcrPors cfthc old world as well az towards the
inhabitants 81 the ISLAND Of Cuba in the new Was
that policy calculated to strengthen General Tay-
lor in the affections Of the people. or TO make has
administration. popular throughout the country
let the results Of every State election that has
taken place since the installation Of the admiais-
nation answer Every State but one. and that one
Vermont has deliberately voted aeains, and con.
Scmncd the selfish. sickly and pusllaninous course
Of yolcy which the cabinet have adopted since they
came into office. The results Of those elections,
~ nothing else. speak truppet-tongucd Of the view
which the people at large. the bone, and sinew. and
muscle q the country that elected General Taylor
so the Presidency. now think Of his cabinet and