Southern shield., 1850-07-06
EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut,

Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, On Removals and Appointments % Office;
 delivered in tte Senate Of tie United
 States, March 2l and g, 1850.
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 At length the astounding declaration has been put forth thath Teen. Taylor, lshaIl be resisted and opposed, whatever he may do.
 ".We mean (said the Democratic organ in this city few months since) to do nnr duty: and, whatever face the future may wear, we mean to oppose the Administra- ton of General Taylor and his cabal to the bitter end.'
 ?. It has also been the manifest purpose of the Opposition to exclude his views and policy from a proper examination, and even from any consideration whatever. This was disclosed by concerted efforts to carry the present House ofRepresentatves against him, when it was not of the slightest i'm portance with view to uphold the measures ot the last administration, as they have a fixed majority in this body. To elect a Chief Magistrate at one period, and then, within short time thereafter, to constitute Congress 10 thwart and oppose him, is but sorry compliment 10 the consistency and intelligence of the American people; and this is exactly what the Opposition sought to do, so far as the House of Representa- lives is concerned. And they succeeded, if we may add to their strength the third party vote; and this, perhaps, may be done without injustice, as the discordant powers were allied at one time to make distinguished member from Indiana Speaker of that body, and that, too, in hostility to the Admins traton.
 g. The President tried conciIatory line of policy in Virginia. He reappointed George Loyal, esq, navy agent at Norfolk, and Thomas B. Bigger, esq, postmaster at Richmond; but his advances were treated with scorn. It did not appease the violence of the opposition in the slightest degree. Every ofort was made in Virginia, at the April elections in lS49, to put down his Administration, and all the Congressional districts were carried against it, save one.
 4. In many of the free States the De- mocracy joined the Abolitionist party, with a view to local advantages, and partly to embarrass the President and his Adminis tratlon. This was so in Connecticut at the last general election, QS49) A coalition was formed to carry not only the Ist, 2d and 3d Congressional districts, but also the State Legislature.
 The Democratic candidates in the three districts indicated gave aritten pledges tc the Abolitionists, which are before me; but will not trouble the Senate by reading them By such means the friends of the President were defeated in these districts, and a fatal turn given to the Congressional elections. This, 1t will be recolIected, was within one month after the inauguration, and there could not have been, in any thing done here, the slightest excuse for this course. MT. Polk hurled out of office many Demo- crats in the State of New York and else where for joining the Free-Soil party. have before me list of no less than eighty four deputy postmasters dismissed in that State for this reason; and 1 will produce here a highly interesting letter relating to one of those cases, from the Hon. William J. Brown, lately the Democratic Free-Soi candidate for the Speakership, Con pledges. too3