Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-16
REMOVALS FROM OFFICE.

Ne endorse, most emphatically, the following
article on this subject from the Washington Union
. Rruov.,.s from OFFrcE. Ii would be amusing,
If il was not disgusting, 10 the manner in which
.ome of the whig journals preparing to denounce
the administration if it does not refuse 10 call Its
friends its aid, and prefer to rely Tor Jealous and
efficient cooperation the bitter adversaries who
shared the vindctiveness and enjoyed the favor of the
whig dynasty. One whig journal before US attempts
to sustain the pretended belief that Observation-Disclosures
stands pledged against removals, except for causes
affecting the character competency of officers, by
quoting that sentence of the Inaugural in which the
President declares he has entered into no engage
mens, and has personal wishes to consult In Inc
bestowal of office.
General Pierce has not placed his administration
in the position occupied by General HARRISON anu
General Taylor, olthat each removal 1t makes WIZ
be defamation of character or Vloia"oh % ~
faith. So far from pursuing SUCH COURSE, .e -.
siden announced to the couLtry that ne "onld
those oefcers Who were under the influence Of party
prejudice or political hostility 1t their duties required
severe labor or made it necessary Tor them 10 coop
crate cordially with the administration. we quote
L;s words: and every candid who is at all &C
ouainted with political movements must admire their
manly candor and them with the brittle pledg
of atenai moderation which the wings always
uttered but have never fulfilled The President says
No reasonable of any party will expect the ad
ministration be regardless of its responsibility,
and CT the obvious elements of success to retain
persons known to be under the influence of political
will require not only severe labor, but cordial coop
eration.'
Another wing journal speaks of removals from Of
fee as ga dirty work., which the Presidents pledg-
ed against, but which his party will require him to
do. Notwithstanding its own party bitterness, the
journal 10 which auds says that party shoul Id be
lost sight of now /; and after assang Gen. Jackson
for removing enemies from ONCE and appointing
friends, forgetting, the while, to mention that Gen.
Harrison's and Gem Taylor's administrations were
the most proscrPVe in our annals ii afirms that the
President, when member of Congress in 194l re-
pudiated the policy of Gen. Jackson, and bitterly
denounced the removals made by the wings in that
year. This is not true. Gen. Pierce never did de-
Gen. Jackson for the manner in which he en-
poyed the patronage con6ded to him. The state
ment is false. 1t has not the shadow of foun-
dation to rest upon. Gen. Pierce did not denounce
Gen. Jackson. He denounced the course pursued by
the wings in 1S41, but not, as the Louisville Journal
says, for removing enemies from Office. Gen. Pierce
leveed his denunciations at the falsehoods of the
wing leaders. In the of their party, they had
promised in l640 to prescribe prescription, and TO
bring about new order of things; but as soon as
they obtained power in I64l. they repudiateG their
promises, and commenced the work Of prescription,
in spirit of restless vndictiveness which has been
surpassed in violence only by Gen. Taylor's admin
istration.
1t was the falsehood and fraud of the wing party
the game by which it obtained poverty false pre-
tences-that Gen. Pierce assaulted in 1871. He did
not denounce Gen. Jackson for regarding the obvious
elements of success, but he denounced the wing dy-
people not pursue. In 1s48 the wings repeated
with increased earnestness the pledges which they
made in 1910; and in l949 they trampIed them under
foot with even more readiness than in 1871. Every
removal made by the cabal that mfsused the conf
dence and abused the simplicity of General Taylor,
assaiIed the-character capacity of every officer it
removed and in making appointments it showed but
little regard FIR the public ineressa fact which Is
fully a,esed by the confusion which prevails in the
public business, the amount of the public expendi-
lure. and the corrupt of the public moneys ex-
posed in the last four years. We have had reason TO
know something of wing audacity; but with the
campaign of 1913, and the ferocity of the wing ad-
ninistralion, fresh in the minds of the people, we
prepared for the GOODNESS with which Por-
tion of the wing journals speak of the liberal manner
which opposition should be treated, and the o5ll-
WON of party differences which should prevail when
Offices to be bestowed. There were more re-
movaIs. we believe, during the first six months of
GeR Taylor's administration than under every demo-
cratic nistraton since the foundation of the gov
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