Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-11-02
\, ElrBER 22l8533.
REHio(lvAL OF COLLECTOR BRONSON.

REMOVAL OF COLLECTOR BRONSON. ) Il
The President, through the Secretary of the Trea-
sury,s has removed Mr. Greene G. Bronson from his
place as Collector Of the port of New York. We
concur nth the Richmond Enquirer, g that the re-
moval Of Collector Bronson wouldb the consequence
of his recent letter Of defiance to the President is
what every person with q just sense Of propriety
must hare expected. It's incompatible with the
dignity Af the Executive to retain subordinates in
office who manifest no sort of respect for their supe
riors. The letter of Mr.. Bronson was an appeal to
faction againstth the policy Of the Administration, and
was manifesty designed as challenge to the Presi
dent The President is right in dismissng Bronson,
and the country will sustain him. This prompt bold
and Just measure illustrates his energy of character
and will inspire ardour and confidence in the bosom
of his friends. The timid may falter, and the trea-
cherous may desert but honest Democrats will stand
by the President in his struggle with faction. For
time no doubt the rage of faction will fill the coun-
hy with its infuriate yells but the ebuliton over,
returning reason will vindicate the President and
cover the traitors with merited contempt.
From the Washington Union. Oct. 23.l
SATURDAY MORNING, October %.
SIR Recently addressed letter to Collector
Bronson and other officers of the customs in the city
New York.
BY some means an imperfect copy of that letter,
purporting to have been communicated from New
York by telegraph, was published in one of the pa
pers of this city.
This rendered it proper for me to give the public
a correct copy and upon the ground of that pubG-
cation under such circumstances Collector Bronson
published his long delayed reply, even before the
original reached me.
Under these circumstances deem it proper to
transmit to you for publication the enclosed letter.
Very respectfully, JAMES GUTHRIE.
WAsnINGToS, OCT. %, 1853.
SIR: have received your letter of the 9th inst.
1t is not my purpose to respond to the many po-
stions of that letter. because most of them bear their
contradiction upon its face, and others too unim
portant to require refutation; and also because,
while, in several phrases of it, admitting your in
piled obligation, as of honor, to act in accor
dance with the known policy of the Administration,
and moreover, recognising the proprety and justice
of that policy by declaring that you yourself depre-
Gated and endeavored to prevent the division now
existing in the Democratic party in your State you
nevertheless ndulged in tenor of remark, to
rious relations of the subject, which not only i'm
pugns my motives but indicates an attitude your
part wholly incompatible with harmonious co-opera
ton between us and the proper conduct of the busi
ness of the Government
One suggestion appears in your letter which de-
mands animadversion. You alege, by implication,
that have desired you to appoint free soilers to Of
flee, and, in doing so you strangely misunderstood
misinterpret my letter of the Sd instant. neith
entertained nor expressed any such desire. 1t
has been my pleasure and my duty, not to inquire
into the opinions which may have been held your
self and others far back the year 1S4S but to
regard the claims to consideration of all who have
acted with fidelity to the principles and organization
of the democratic party since the convention at Bat
more in 1852, and those only. And with these
I must yhonin N lei
ter you inform me that you have selected eesoilers
for Office, without having given me the notice of the
fact, which would have enabled me to withhold my
appreciation from any such appointments. will add
that the imputation that have required you to act
with reference to controversies of local or State
character, is wholly gratutous Ny letter was in
tended to guard you against distinctions between
democrats, founded upon local politics and local di-
visions.
The concluding portion of your letter has left me
alternative but to lay the whole matter before the
President, and take his direction concerning it.
You assume that in relation to certain things you
to receive instructions from this department. and
in others that you to proceed without or contra
ry to- such instructions. This cannot be admitted in
any branch of the public service for where the de-
partment is not expressly empowered to give nstruc
tions to sbornates it has the authority to do So
inherent in the power to remove refractory officer
You also assume that you are to appoint the vari-
Gus persons employed in the observation-disclosures as
you admit, subject to my approval, and Others, as
you seem to conceive, on your sole authority lean.
not but regard it as singular that gentleman oi
your legal requirements and experience should have
fallen into such an The constitution of the U
| States has empowered Congress to confer the ap-
ponment of inferior officers in the President alone
in the courts of law in the heads of departments
Congress has not attempted, nor, if it had, could il
have effected, any modification of this provision OF
the constitution.
Those who are employed under you in the Custom
House do both by the Constitution and the laws, de-
rive their appointment and their authority as public
officers from the Secretary of the Treasury alone.
What the language and temper of your letter
| would have rendered embarrassing, these unwarTan
table assumptions marked as they are by manifest
spirit of nsubordnation render impossible namely
your continuance in the office of Collector of the
District of New York. am, therefore, directed by
the President to say that your successor in the Office
will be promptly appointed.
have the honor to be, very respectfully,
JAMES GUTHRIE
GREENE G. Bronson, Esq, New York.
The first letter of Mr.. Guthrie it is seen, was jim
perfectly published, and though not designed for th
papers, he was thus constrained to give to the pub
lie correct copy.
PTesi lent Pierce was elected upon the basis of
complete cessation of Che slavery agitation; and h
was supported by the Democrats of New York with
regard to their past opinions and position thi
question. His course in relation to New York Dem
ocrats is but the legitimate result of his position