American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-05
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MR.. SECRETARY STUART.

The amiable Secretary of the Interior, in his
speech at Richmond, recently, declared that OF
the eight hundred dependents connected with
his Department, he knew no distinction between
Wings and Democrats, and that he retained no
Aboltionists or Disunionists in office,
The term "dependants" is anti-republican,
and, as used, does Mr.. Stuart no credit. The
subordinates in his Department are not serts,
whatever may be their political affinities, and 1t
is hardly repubican-like for the head Of the
Department 10 so denominate them, notwith-
standing some of them may be more sycophantic
and subseryient than serfs.
That Mr.. Stuart knows no distinction between
Wings and Democrats in his Department may
be true In Il certain sense but the fact that
| the chief clerk of the General Land Office, the
chief clerk of the Indian Office, and the chief
clerk of the Patent Office are not Wings, and
the fact that many Democrats in the Interior
Department proper, and in the Land, Indian
and Pension Offices have been promoted over
the heads of meritorious Wings, by the sanction
of Mr.. Secretary Stuart, may well be cited by
all good Wings as abundant evidence that the
honorable Secretary Of the Interior does know,
10 their mortyication and cost, q distinction be-
tween Wings and Democrats.
Mr.. Secretary Stuart is indebted to the Wing
party for his present eminent position, and for
the high places he has occupied on former
occasions. He has seen the Wing party
struggling for twenty years against the fierce
and unforgiving Democracy, to get into power.
He knows that parties are necessary to pre-
serve the liberty and the institutions of our
country. He knows perfectly well that shrewd
Democracy is not going to obliterate party lines,
nor yield one inch to the party it opposes.
And yet, after twenty years hard fighting, and
one victory, he sees the Wings triumphant, for
q IL -
chat he knows, as the exalted dispenser of
patronage, no distinction between Wings and
Democrats Alas for his remembrance of what
the Wing party has done for the Hon. Alex
ander II. III. Stuart, resident of State which
cared to do but little for him!
But Mr. Secretary Stuart says he retains no
Aboltonist in Office Allow me to respectfully
ask if he considers Mr.. William H. Seward and
Mr.. Joshua r. Giddings Abolitionists? And
if so, if his own chief clerk, and the heads OF
the General Land Office and Patent Office, are
not just such Abolitionists
Allow me to respectfully ask him if he did
not appoint Mr.. Sprague, an Abolition member
# the last Congress- who voted with Giddings
against every one of the Compromise measures
| TO the Office of Indian Agent in Michigan, il
preference to Colonel Babcock, Fillmore Com
promise Wing, and an honest, upright man
who had been filling the office of Superintend
ent of Indian Affairs in Michigan? Have no
Messrs. Penniman and Conger, Wing member
elect to Congress from Michigan, and Uniol
men, written on to the President and the Sec
rotary of the Interior, and pressed the remova
of Mr.. Sprague, the Abolitionist, and the resto
ration of Colonel Babcock, the Union man
Has not Judge Bacon Union man, and a mem
| Der of the Michigan Legislature, been on her.
| in person, urging the same act of justice to b,
| lone? And has not Mr.. Stuart stoutly refused
to remove Mr. Sprague, the Abolitionist, anc
10 justice to Colonel Babcock upon the ground
that General Cass and Mr.. Buel have written
letters in favor of the retention in Office of Mr..
Sprague And why do General Cass and Mr..
Buel write such letters? Because they wish to
livide the Wing party in Michigan Mr.. Sec
rotary Stuart, made what he is by the Wing
party, is willing to aid them, and at the same
time suffer his acts to contradict his declaration
in his Richmond speech. ARIsTIDEs.