New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-01
NUMBER POI.
Letter of Secretary Guthrie in Reply to
Judge Bronson.

WAsHsoTor, October %, 1853
Sp have received your letter Of the I7h inst ri ia
not my purpose TO respond to the many positions Of that
letter because most Of them bear their
~ , ,ace ana others are toe important to require ea
mtune your implied obligation man Of honor to act
~ accordance with the known policy Of the Adminstra
ana moreover recognizing the propriety Justice
OF tat policy by declaring that you yourself deprecated
endeavored to prevent the divisions existing in
sn.sd party in your State nevertheless in
IN tenor Of remarks to various relations the
su.yec winch not only. .impuyns my motives but ind
sh ande on your part wholly incompatible with
duct OF the blsiness Of the Government
one suggetion appears In your letter which demands
snimadyersion You alege by Implication that have
desired you to appoint soers to oee and IN oing
So you strangely misunderstand or nv
u .he od INST neither entertained expressed any
ushr. IL mas been my pleasure and my duty not
10 inquire into the opinions which NAV have been bed bv
yourss and others far back the year 1913 but 70
tne claims 70 consideration Of sh who have acted
with hdey to the principles aud Organization OF the
1emocratc party since the convention at Baltimore in
anu .hose only And with these views must con.
selected free soilers for office without bayiny gven ~
notice OF the fact which would have enabled me to with
;n nGld ny approbatons from any such appointments
VIII add that the imputation have required Won to
aet with reference to controversies local or stat
character is wholly gratuitous Ny letter was intended
to guard you against distinctions between democrats
iounded upon local politics and local divisions
eoncaang portion Of your letter has left
dent and take his direction concerning it,
You assume that in relation certain things YOU ere
tnat you are to proceed without contrary to such in
strucons This cannot be admitted in any branch of
the pubic service for where the department il not en-
prsssiy empowered to give instructions to subordpate
1t has the authority So as inherent in the newer 4,
remove refractory officer "
ou aso assume that you are to appoint the various
persons employed in the as Won al
NIT subject to my approval Others as you seem 10
conceive on your sole authority cannot but regard n
singular that gentleman Of your legal acaureme
M experience should have fallen into such an error
me constitution of the United States has empowered
Cengresa 70 confer the appoptmeut Of inferior o,csrs
the President alone, in the courts Of law or ia th
aus :" department. Congress has not attempted
this provision of the Constitution "
Ihose VINO are employed under you in the custom
house do both by the constitution and the lavs
their appointment and their authority as public ofeers
from the Secretary Of the Treasury alone
"hat the language and temper Of your letter would
nave rendered embarrassing these assump
tons marked as they are by manifest spirit Of insubor
dinstion, render impossibe-namely your contnuanc.
In the office Of Collector of the district of New YORK
am therefore directed by the President to saw that
successor in the Office will be promptly appointed
/ have the honor to be- very respectfully
. JAMES GUTHRIE