Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-29
Shirt Of the Morning Press.


Spirit Of the Morning Press.
The Union of this morning gives its
readers an article Cd "Frauds upon the
Treasury" in which it comments upon
an article in The Nashville Union, which
purports TO be an expose of swindling by
officers of tie late administration. The
Union closes thus
~We cannot but deem it fortunate for
the country that the Treasury Depart
ment has been transferred to the manage
ment of such a man as Mr.. Guthrie. If
he does not prove himself an uncompro-
missing foe to all kinds of negligence,
fraud, and peculatlon in the management
of the public money, he will fail to realize
the results which his sntecedents would
indicate. His infexible honesty and his
unbending sternness of purpose, with his
we'll known aversion to every species Of
aggression upon the treasury, furnish the
best guarantees that he is busily and per-
severingly investigating the condition of
his department, and that he will be found
enforcing the penalties of the law with
unshrinking rigor. He cannot discharge
his duties in accordance with the demands
of public sentiment in any other way
without bringing odium upon himself and
the administration. The government
must be brought back to standard of
pure official fidelity, or democracy will
have failed tn accomplish one of the great
objects of its late triumph. A war of
determination has to be waged upon the
plunderers of the public treasury, whether
they commit their offences under the garb
of official station, or whether they seek
to gain admittance by besieging the halls
of Congress. The people look for radical
reforms; the admission cannot be igno-
rant of the demands of the popular voice,
and We have every confidence that the
just expectations of the country will be
realized"
The Republic, in approving the reso-
lutions of the Vermont Wing Convention,
says;
"We applaud the sentiment contained
in the two following resolutions of the
Vermont Wing State Convention:
ga greater restriction of the Executive
power and patronage Of the United
States, which now, from it's vast and yet
increasing extent, bids fair to over
shadow every other branch of the Gov
ernment, to the great detriment of the
general welfare, and with manifest
danger to the liberties of the people.
1" AN administration of the finances of
the Government (both of the State and
of the United States) which shall be
strictly limited by law, and economical
in it's character
''The Convention says we'll, that "a
party which maintains such principles
in a country never dies unless, it
might be added, freedom should expire
with them"
We are well satisfied that the Execu-
tive has grown at the expense of the CO.
ordinate Departments of the Legislative
and the Judiciary. It is also fast over
shadowing the dignity of the States them
selves.
"Of the power of the Federal Executive
over the Congress we need offer no higher
proof than the number of members who
have sought and accepted Office at the
hands of the President, and the open use
that is made of Executive influence in
strengthening the representative by be-
slowing office upon his constituents.
The same influence has been shown
in the translation of the highest State
functionaries to Federal offices, and by
swarm of persons who, passing by the
employments public and private offered
at home, besiege the Executive with their
claims, and what must be even more an
noying to him, their fatteries.'
The lnteligeneer copies two of the res
olutions of the lave Union Convention of
Georgia, of which it speaks approvingly.
Here are the resolutions:
g Resolved. That the public lands are
the common property of all the States of
the Union, and in their appropriation
equality is the only true rule of equity !;
and any alienation of them, except to
bring money into the public treasury.
should be for the equal benefit of all the
States in the Union, old as well as new.
-" RESOLVED, That, while struggling free
dom every where enlists our warmest SYM
pathy. we still adhere to the doctrine OF