The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-21


retaining Judge Mason or Mr.. MARCY, OF
any other member of the late Cabinet, In
the places they respectively occupied.
With regard TO the foreign ministers, the
PRESIDENT has manifested the most signal
forbearance. Many of them proceeded
at once, by voluntary tender OF their re-
signations, to render their recall unneces-
sary. Several of the appointees OF the
late administrations still remain abroad.
All the Departments here-the State, Ma
Wy, Treasury, Post Office, and War De-
partments-are filled, literally filled, with
the appointees Of Locofoco administrations,
who have not been harmed in hair oftheir
heads. Some of the most important and
valuable Offices in the country still remain
in the hands of Locofocos witness for in
stance the navy agency at Norfolk-the
contract Office in the Post Office Depart
ment--many heads Of bureaus in the Urea
sury and Navy Departments-Survey
Generals and Deputy Surveyors, and many
ofthe chief clerks, with..scores and hundreds
of subordinates in all the departments.
Take the country through, and there are
at the present moment more Locofocos in
Office than Whigs--a state Of things which
we regret, and which has been the cause
Of loud if not just complaint, but one which
induces no forbearance or consideration on
the part Of the Bitter-end opposition.
The argument of the Opposition goes to
the extent Of requiring General TAYLOR to
keep every Locofoco in office, until BY Lo-
cofoco aid the Administration has discov-
cred substantive dishonesty OF incapacity,
that will be satisfactory to his own friends
for removing him. "To equalize the Of
fices"-says the Union--ss is as much a
breach of General TAYLoR's pledges as to
remove Democrats for opinions sake"
He could not become President of the
people, except by positively excluding one
half Of the people from all public employ
ments, for no better reason than because
they have always been excluded for the
last twenty years.
This is pretty doctrine for men who hold
that the PRESIDENT is as much response
bic for every man whom he keeps in Office,
as if he had originally appointed him.
This is pretty doctrine for men who hold
that it was President PoLK's right, under
his pledge to be the President of the peo-
pie, to turn out every man for whom he
did not choose to become responsible.
This is pretty doctrine, indeed, for men
who declared during the canvass that Gen.
eral TAYLoR's alleged promise to become
the President of the People amounted to
GUST NOTHING AT ALL"
How is the Administration to be sus-
tainedl Is it by being surrounded with
enemies instead of friendsl Is it by
continuing men in Office who are in
terested in concealing past abuses, and
who are called upon Gas in Mr.. Gil
LErT's CASEY to make it point of honor
to withhold information supposed to i'm
plicate or concern their political friends'
If they appoint political enemies to Office,
do they obtain any credit for the forbear-
ance Did this Administration obtain
any credit for magnanimity when they
appointed Captain BELL, who lost an arm
in the sight of General TAYLOR, to the
office of Indian agent in Arkansas And
yet Captain BELL was Cass and Butler
Democrat. Did they obtain any credit by
reappointing GEORGE LOYAL to the i'm
portant Office Of navy agent at Norfolk, with
all its vast influence and Importance Not
whit. The Locofoco journals denounced
these and similar acts as the results Of
combined hypocrisy and timidity,' and
tainted the VINES as bitterly for their
misplaced magnanimity as for any act of
alleged prescription. And how is il with
Mr.. HoBBIE, the First Assistant Postmas-
ter Generals This gentleman, on the 9Th
Of January, 1S49, gave as toast at pub
lie dinner in this city: ssTAe President
elect-may his duplicated magnanimity
be instructed by the fable of the MAN
8 and the FROZEN ADDER" He is type
Of thousand others who remain in Office,
the appointees Of Locofoco administrations.
In thinking over this subject, our mind
is warmed to a glow as ardent as that
which animstes the virtuous breast of Mr..
BRADBURY-but. the spark which kindles
it comes from very different source.
With very little encouragement we could
work ourselves into an indignation that
would out-mouth and out-rant Locofoco-
ism; not because so many Locofocos have
been turned out Of office, but because so
many have been permitted to remain in
office. When we see the tenacity with
which the Locofocos cling to the smallest
places, and hear the outcry which they
raise over their loss-when they regard
the defeat of Locofoco Clerk of the
House as likely to endanger the Union, and
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