Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-04-04
omethfng Rich---Bausman m VS.. CIayts


Our Wing friend Wm. Bausman, late editor Of
Union in an address of column and half. Ito the
President of the United Siaies," in which he gives
Mr.. Secretary Clayton ''thunder" He recites, with
a stately pomposity which would do credit to Gibbon,
that in January last, he fled with the Secretary of
State (Or rather with his door keeper. for the Sec
reiary himself could not be seen,) his application
''for a commission of the consulate at Tanger, Mo-
rocco" Why this particular spot of "all the world
was selected in preference to the habatons of "the
of mankind" the Of his glory, does not
appear Notwithstanding friend B. was backed
by Recommendations Of such honorable and COM
pete character as are seldom never presented by
applicants for Office" he was destined see his aud
able ambition serve his country 6ppsd in the bud.
utterly squashed Mr.. Bausman says he waited
for ''several weeks" the effect Of his reco ~
mendatons, but becoming inpatient, "sought right
different occasions during the hours assigned by cab
met etiquette for audience th The honorable Sec
retary" but on eighth different occasions DOOM
ed to Disappointment" Then Ned McGaughey
tried il eight different times, and he couldn't come it
either! At the eighth round Nc. ''gave il up but
not so with the pertinacious Bausmau. Al the ninth
(auspcious numbcr) attempt, his labors actual
ly crowned with success" and he loked upon the
prodigious great man whish it had taken him about
"a hours to get sight Of! Clayton told him he had
examined the numerous recommendations, and found
them of "a very excellent character" had spoken to
the President the subject. &c., who said he de-
signed making no change in the Office in question at
present. bu, would inform the Secretary when he de-
sired to do so, &c. But what Bausmans surprise
few days after to it announced in the newspa-
pers that the Identical consulate at Tangier had
been conferred upon Mr.. Brown OF New York ~
Bausman says swell authenticated private rumor as
serts, that among the applicants for this office besides
myself, were Mr.. Brown and Mr. Porter, ut present
in the CITY, Mr.. Porter was refused the appointment
at Tangier, because, the honorable Secretary sta
ted, he had promised it personal friend Of his
this MIR. Brown. But continued tho Secretary,
q confer upon you the consulate at TnPoli, with
like salary, in the same dominions, in consideration
of n long standing acquaintance with your father.
or some like unjusti6able reason"
Then Bausman proceeds to discuss Clsy yton's "mal.
versaiions and duplicity in Office" holding him ur
to ''merited public Indignation" calling him "fal>
fer and paltroon,' &c. He says:
sFThe general course Of the Secretary Of State in
the exercise of the appointing power, has been suci
rs to cover him with shame. to bring reproacb upon
your administrations, and to scatter the whig party
into such minute fragments to deprvS il even o
a nucleus for a rallying point His chief deligh
has appeared to be, to overlook the claims Of the
Masses confer his rewards upon broken-down pol
iticians who have been twice, thrice and rretriev
ably condemned by the people-to bestow The patron
age Of the government upon great mems sons who
have no claims but those derived from distinguished
parentage-in fact, to subserve his own persona
ambition at the expense of your reputation, and t.
the detriment IF the whig party"
Bausman ventures TO remind old Zack that The
"power behind the throne" Is sometimes "greate
than the throne ITSELF" and that he obtained laures
as General which am afraid are whitening on The
brow of the Executive!" ''It may be-" he says
"that Indiana has no claims on the patronage Of h'
government, she failed. for want Of numerica
wbig strength, to succeed-on the suggestion Of 4
prominent Connectcu, politician-in sending strong
enough whig delegation to Congress to secure he
any fair proportion Of that patronage. She was no
wanting in volunteers. however. when a requisitor
was made upon her to fight the battles of Mexico
Now ell this comes. be it remembered. from
sworn friend of Taylorism. from who wasted
himself to secure its advent, even TO the spendn.
of ''his whole substance"
Oh! Bausman. Bausman, your friends will surely
have to give you another public dinner