The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-03

of Colonel Fitz Henry Warren and Mr. Goddard
before him, thinks perhaps his bread and butter
depends upon making demonstration against
Governor Seward and General Scott"
We have no hesitation in believing, from
what we have seen of the Atlas and the equiv
ocstions of which il is capable, that The charges
against the Administration, inslnuated IN the
above paragraph, are thrown out with perfect
knowledge, on the part of the writer, that they
are untrue.
! The allegation is that Mr. WARREN and Mr..
GODDARD were deprived of their ''bread ant
butter" becs-se they were reluctant 10 make
"a demonstration against Governor SEWARD
aud General Scorr." We apprehend that the
gentlemen IN question will hardly arrogate to
designations were purely voluntary, neither Co
creed nor sought by the departments to which
they We're attached, but dictated solely by their
own personal convenience or interests They
were both excellent officers and very agreeable
! perHons, and nobody in the Administration in
| quired whether they preferred one Wing can
! ddate another.
There is baseness in this lnsinuation Of the
illus, from the Knowledge which its conductors
possess, that the Administration has never dis
turbed Wing office holder on the score of his
political preferences. They know perfectly
well that there are office-hulders within their
circle of immediate friends who have for
months acted upon preferences which they have
| had no occasion to conceal in this land of free
thought and free speech-and that those pref
erences were not for the Administration. 1t is
! llttle trying sometimes, we should imagine
| TO see men about one who are plotting to mine
and undermine but it is we'll understood that
Mr.. FILLMORE has manifested most high and
| honorable disregard of all personal consldera-
tons in his disposition Of public offices and EN-
Payments, and a perfect Indifference to the in
dlvldual preferences that might be manifested
by his appoinees in relation TO the SUCCESSOR
ship.
One more correction let US make in the state
ment of the .3tl0S We are not aware that the
correspondent of the Journal Of Commerce is
or has been an office holder under this
Administration. 1t was convenient for the
alias, however. to dub him an office holder,
in order to lay the foundation for the
false suggestions in regard to Mr. WAR
Rem or Mr.. GODDARD. But while the
correspondent In question is 10 office-holder,
there are some correspondents Of our public
journals who are office holders, we understand,
and busy in writing down the Administration
and writing up their personal preferences.
These gentlemen have not been disturbed that
we have heard. Some of them, we dare say,
hunger and thirst for the distinction of being
turned out; but we oplne that they are des-
tined to disappointment. In our humble judg-
ment, no clerk in a Department should be per-
mited to correspond for the public press; because
he IS constantly tempted 10 make use of niorma
ton derived from his official position to give
interest or value to his letters. The more i'm
| portant il may be to withhold this information,
| for official promuigation, the more certainly
will ii find a clandestlne utterance if ii fall in
! the way Of letter-wrting clerk. But if he
Is permitted 10 correspond at all, no just excep-
/ ton can be taken to the preferences among po-
! tica friends which he may entertain or see fit
/ To express.