American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-26
EDITORS coRREsp oNDENcE.



GENTLEMEN: have read the remarks of two
of your correspondents, g Patrid, non Pays' and
"a Democrat" relative to my structures upon
the official conduct of the President, his Cabi-
net Ministers, and some of the heads of bureaux
| can afford to pay passing notice to each of
those correspondents; but they must not ex-
pect, by endeavoring to engage me in contro-
versy, to deter me from my purpose of exposing
the shortcomings of this Administration toward
/ the party which exalted it to power
/ {" Pdtyia non ParS" mistakes my position
when he represents me as blackening the fame
of the proudest and most honored members Of
the Administration. j merely chronicle their
official acts, and contrast those acts with the
Wing professions of their authors If this pro-
cess casts backening shade upon their fame,
| can't help it. | give facts; If they are OF a
blackening nature, let those who are to blame
in the matter be saddled with the responsibility
and the censure which must inevitably follow
and they will be.
q Pairia, non Pttrs" mistakes me again when
he says my highest appreciation Of the country's
interest is that unless the places, and especially
the emouments of office, shall fall to me and
my friends, all is corrupt, all is unsafe have
said nothing like this, nor have l meant any
thing of the kind. hold no ofiice-am no APP
plicant for an appointment-and have no rea-
tive in Office feel that have right, as one
who helped to bring about the election OF laylor
and Fillmore and the exaltation OF the present
Adnai Illustration to power to ask s''the powers
that be" to do their duty to the party that made
them what they are This is all / have asked.
The men in power, put there because they aoere
Wings, have no right to assume that all the Of
fees of value in the Government are theirs, to be
disposed of to their kin, without regard to
fitness, to their Democratic friends, and to such
other persons as they may choose to confer APP
pointments upon. A political Administration,
brought into power by the efforts Of its party,
after hard struggle, that will not take care OF
it's friends, who are capable and honest, but
seeks to concilate its enemies, deserves to 60
down, ought to 60 down, and, as certain as fate,
will 60 down.
''Patria, non Pars" errs greatly, if he is in
earnest when he says that, in regard to the
Gardiner Claim, grope for facts in the dark,
| arrive at conclusions in the dark, stab IN the
dark &c.; and that ] will have to take back
my accusations, and unsay all my assertions
on the subject. My assertions have all been
made in the broad light Of MONDAY. | have
not even told the half that could be told on the
subject of the Gardiner and Mears' claims; and
as to the taking back and unsaying what have
asserted, l have,only to remark that swe shall
non Pars" must be joking. If he is not, chal
lenge him to say in so many words whether
he believes the Gardiner Claim and the Mears
Claim are free from fraud or forgery, and that
they will yet turn out to be, one or both, just
| and honest?
As to the defence and white-washing of Mr..
Corwin and his chief clerk, which both "Pdtr'a,
non Pars' and /" 4 Democrdt' indulge in,
have nothing to say, further than this: these
correspondents no doubt have a friendly feel
ing for the two functionaries in question, and
not being very great Wings themselves, cannot
see why it is not all perfectly right that Mr..
Corwln should promote Mr.. Walkers faithful
man to the chief clerkship of the Treasury De-
partment, and not only retain nearly all of Mr.
Walkers old and well-tried Democratic subor-
dinates in the department, but pick up Demo-
Gratis from the gutter and appoint them to office.
| Why should not q Il Dem0crdt laud his friend
Corwn for such line Of conduct, particularly
if 81 Democrdf' is anxious to obtain an APP
pointment from this Wig Administration
But enough in reply to the two correspond
ents in question The Administration, and not
its white-washers, needs attention.
What better is this Administration than the
Galphin one which preceded it? is it not part
and parcel of that Administration? What Wing
in office, under the Galphins, dared to express
an opinion against the allowance of the Galphin
Claim If he expressed such an opinion, was
he not sure to be whirled out of his place?
Congress and the nation condemned to everlast-
ing infamy the Galphin swindle. And yet Pre-
sident Fillmore appointed Charles NJ Conrad
one of the most jealous defenders of the Gal
phin claim in Congress, to the office of Secre-
tary of War, and either President Fillmore or
Mr.. Corwin appointed Allen A. Hall (who left
the Office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
20 al, tl,a n.1 lnfaY,A t1nC n1
phin swindle, when better editors and truer
Wings refused to do the dirty work. to the
post of Superintendent of the Custom House
and Marine Hospital at San Francisco. And
has not Mr.. Corwin called upon the same noted
letter-writer that eulogised the Galplin Claim,
and played ycopham and toady to the daiphin
Cabinet, to defend his conduct in the matter Of
the Gardiner Claim, in sort of semi Treasury
circular, which was published in four or five
papers in northern cities simultaneously?
Did not President Taylor and Mr.. Secretary
Crawford leave it with Democratic Congress
to investigate and pronounce against the Gal
phin Claim? And are not President Fillmore
and Mr.. Secretary Corwin leaving it with q
Democratic Congress to investigate the Gardi-
ner Claim
Is President Fillmore asleep on this subject
Has he no regard for the reputation of the Wing
party? Does he not know of the GaLDhm spot
upon its escutcheon? And is he willing to let
a Democratic Congress fix Gardner spot also
upon it, 1t is rumored that, either at the
Presidents request, or otherwise Mr.. Corwin
has not signed any acquisitions as Secretary Of
the Treasury, since his return from Ohio, but
has been deeply engaged, at his residence, with
General Waddy Thompson, and Others on the
subject Of the Gardiner Claim. The result is,
]. Carlos Gardiner has been despatched to
Mexico to see what can be done there to make
the Gardiner Claim appear we'll
And what has the President done Why he
has allowed the matter to be turned over to our
Minister to Mexico, who is in this country still,
and not likely to be in Mexico for some time to
come, and who, when he gets there, win have