The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-15
The last appointment.

The last appointment.
The appointments made in Indiana by the
present administration, while they have gen.
orally not been marked by any particular ex-
quisiteness of discrimination, are still not
complainable subjects. In many ses they
might have been better, but very readily in
all could they have been worse. One ap-
pointment has been made, however, at which
every respectable citizen has right to feel
astonished, and the same RIG bit TO freely ex-
press his sentiments in connection with the
subject.
1t is a notorious and undeniuble fact, that
the Pierce administration has particularly
favored Free Sellers in its appointments
For this course it has been attacked in GER
tain quarters by Democratic papers, and re-
buked in even severer terms than Wig pa
pers Of the opposite party have seen mt TO
use. A prominent Free Soil appointment has
been made in this State, and as but two De-
mocratic papers, to our knowledge, have had
the in dependence to speak out in condemna-
ton of the appointment. we shall take much
pleasure in lending them helping hand in
exposing to their own party a specimen of
Pierce administration liberal appointments.
Hon. VIM. II. Brown has been appointed
10 the highly responsible. important and lu-
crative post of special agent and confden-
tial supervisor Of the mails, in the North
Western States. 1t is almost useless to ex-
plain TO our readers who this Mr.. Brown is
We have done that before in the course of
our duty. He is the man who basely truck
led to the Free Soil clique in the House eff
Representatives t. secure the speakership-
the man who was convicted Of falsehood in
the presence Of the House, being compelled
to read letter i'm which he made a distinct
and important pledge to the Free Soil clique
headed by David Wilmot, when just before
he had denied ever making such pied e-
the man for whom Gen. BayIey, leading De-
mocrat, thanked God he had been saved the
obloquy OF voting, by the above exposure OF
Browns trucking m, anness-the man whom
request to vote for, said Mr. Burt, a Demo-
crat, after this duplicity, would regard as an
insult-the man whom Mr.. Kaufman, of Tex
as, Democrat, in the open House, accused of
duplicity and falsehood--the man in fact, who
by his miserable trucking to miserable fac
ton for office, rendered himself at the time
despsed of all parties, and even contempt
ible in the eyes of the faction he had court
ed.
Mr.. Brown has since endeavored to screen
himself from this obloquy, or at least satisfy
his own party that he is not half SO friendly
to Free Soiism as he once proved himself to
be, and not half so base a politician as he
was proven TO be by others. How well he
succeeded in this may be inferred from one
little incident, that at a great Democratic
meeting held at the Court House in Louis
vile last fall, his own party refused to hear
him speak, and hooted and g-oaned him from
the stand.
This is the man whom the present admin.
istration has appointed to one of the mos
important Offices in the country-a man who
to be elected President of the House, promis
ed to give miserable Free Soil faction TIT
supremacy in some of the most importan
committees, and giving them, small clique
thus far the preponderance over both parties
Ii it be not Free Soil appointment, it j
something worse--it is the appointment OF I
man who for self aggrandizement, stoope'
and cringed to Free Soilism.
We more particularly allude to this ap
pointment, because Mr.. Brown is from thi
State, and because the organ of he admins
tration, in the face of oil the Free Soil ap
poin,ments, has been dsclaiming any con
nection or sympathy between the Pierce ad