Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-22

Secretary of the Treasury to Greene c. Bronson ESQ
Collector of this port bearing date the Sd instant trans
mted to him and other officers and promulgated 10 the
Union for general information is before the public
commanding il justly deserves almost universal at
tenton That letter contains expressions which gen.
orally understood as in some verifying the
charge in question: and which if read with no than
ordinary attention. would be likely so to impress
the most intelligent reader Considering the high au-
thorty from which the letter emanates, il be
pected that should be regardless of my good
to lie still under the general belief Of my fellow
that it confirmed the charge put forth by the Union,
pecay the honorable signer could possibly have
intended so TO be understood.
will therefore show, IN the first place, that the Hon
Secretary has borne testimony support the charge
and secondly that the charge itself is false and cum
NOUS
! The Hon. Secretary says to Judge Bronson:
"You are that to the principles of the Baltimore
Convention and the policy ntmated in the
the President and his constitutional advisers pledged
before the world. They have been and united
upon these principles and that policy and had
believe that gentlemen who to accept office
under the Administration stood pledged to the prne
Piles and policy"
The letter then proceeds to state the present
that the Administration recognises existing in this
State distinct sections of the Democratic party and de-
sres Judge Bronson to do justice of those sections
by also recognising and allowing it share in his dis
trbution of the custom house appointments 1t states
that Judge Bronson has not hitherto acted this prnc
pie, and has made the appointments generally his
own section. 1t further speaks in the following words
CAS- the President understands the principles avowed
the platform of the party at Baltimore all Democrats who
joined in unfolding and carrying out the entitled
TO be recognised worthy of the confidence of the united
party, and consequently eligible to official station.
"That all could not obtain office manifest and that the
distribution could not be exactly equal amongst the different
sections of the party equally certain Yet the dstrbu
ton intended to be made give just Of COM
plant section and it believed that this Intention
has been carried ont only by the President himse but
by most Of his appontee in respect to the Offices under the
hitter"
The quotation first above made from the honorable
lows concerning appointments opinions to the import
of the Baltimore platform, and the intentions OF the Ad
mnisraton, might very well, casual reading, ap-
pear to verify the charge in questions but careful peru
sal and scrutiny will satisfy any that only asserts
what would think of denying, l. Q. that the ap-
pontees of the President were the very act of accept
ance, pledged to support the principles and policy ind
Gated in the Baltimore platform AM in the Inaugural Ad
dress The letter does not that either to Judge
Bronson any other appontee of the Administration
was ever IN any way or shape intmated before ms
acceptance that he expected recognise distinct sec
tons of the party any section OF the party either In
appointments under him otherwise. 1t does not as
that any impaired to Judge Bronson or to any
other appontee of the Government he fact that there
existed in the State of New York elsewhere distinct
sections, portions, factions divisions of the De-
mocratc party which it was the policy of the Admins
tration recognise in its immediate appointments to
require to be recognised by its apponees neither to
the language of the Unoa's anonymous article does
this letter assert that article does that Judge Bronson
any other appontee OF the Government accepted office
under any pledge promise understanding express or
implied, that he would give his influence and co-opera-
ton in promoting the of such policy, or
indeed upon any understanding whatever in respect to
the comforting of Offices" Nothing If the kind could
have been asserted with truth respects Judge Bron
myself and neither could have
been truly asserted is proper and deorous to that
the honorable Secretary intended to convey any
such idea to the public.
Even truth itself may be stated in suci manner, and
under such arrangement to DECEIVE thereby as
Stunning the nature and engaging in the gull of sehood
Consequently the adept misrepresentation rather than
risk q direct untruth in his Details generally aims to
work out false inference. The article il the Union is
framed upon this principle. Its author onward to
his deceptive purpose with the wary tread habituat
and practsed falsfer As usual in such compositions,
land several specimens before the pubic) the
due conference OF language is wanting, the regular
quence Of ideas departed FROM and the subjects under
view instead of being distinctly named described by
obscure circumlocution, by terms Of doubtful
ambiguous import. In this way many tae i'm
porant and misleading Of its sentences taken sngy
rendered close counterfeit Of the fact
that while simple denial would be unsatisfactory me-
hod OF rcfutng them thoroughsIisseclon would be in
tolcrably tedious Nevertheless the hbeller must not
escape conformation and therefore, the best method
Of avoiding the obscurity and msapprehenson which
might result from his indirect forms of language, the
cusation is above restaed in distinct and ineligible
form. / proceed to refute it,
The New York appointments including Daniel S. Dick
nsons and my own for the Offices of Collector and At
orney, were gazeed the same day, and soon after
wards bore Washington and delivered to the Presi-
dent the written decnature Of MIR. Dickinson. Judge
Bronson had not then yet been named in connexiOn
with the Collectorshp but within few hours thereaf
ter, and upon the day. he nominated by the
President and unanimously confirmed by the Senate.
morally certain that from the first suggestion of his
high and honorable until his confirmation Col
ector neither the President any member Of the Cab
net had opportunity Of comforting with any friend OF
Judge Bronson unless indeed it had been thought fit to
confer with lie at the time travelling in Con-
necticut, and his exact whereabouts being unknown il
impossible to have conferred with himself by
telegraph From these will be that
am competent to testify in respect 10 his acceptance
OF his appointment as in respect to acceptance OF
that which conferred upon myself No concern
ed IN his appointment could have inferred from any facts
then appearing that his political sentiments differed from
mine and consequently shall henceforth speak only
to exonerae myself from this scandalous imputation,
claiming the strength Of what has already been stated
that Judge Bronson, when his appointment was made,
have been considered and treated standing in the
same category with myself
From me pledge Of any kind in favor Of the disribu
ton policy obtained could possibly have been
implied To prove this it will be convenient briefly to
review the rise and progress of the " sections"
For more than quarter Of century prior 10 lS4I
Martin Van Buren, had guided and controlled the Demo
cratic party in this State In that year opposition to
him as candidate fora second Presidential term assumed
form and force which led to his opposing in 1913, all
the Democratic candidates in the State and the Union
Accustomed as they we're to follow his lead and long
connected with him by the ties Of political association,
considerable number Of Democratic politicians de-
ceiyed and drawn into his party His friends constructed
the Buffalo platform, raised the standard Of the Freeso
agitation, formed an alliance with the Wing abotonists
and obtained FOR their mixed State ticket vote slightly
exceeding that of the regular Democratic candidates.
Very soon after the general election Of '48 the Demo-
Gratis who had supported the Free-so ticket began
turn to their old associations The rank and file needed