The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-06
THE REPUBLIC.
WASHIN GTON:
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1853.

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MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1858.
| The Patronage Policy of the Admins ira
ton.
At the risk of offending those of our friends
who have thought it our duty to keep up con-
tinual barking against the Administration upon
every removal or appointment, we have pre-
ferred awaiting some more definite indication
of its compliance with its Inaugural pledges.
We wondered, it is true, that those who de-
nounced ScoTr for receiving the votes of Free
soiers, should sanction their representation in
| almost every department of the Government,
| or that those who claim the Compromise as
their peculiar work, should submit their Gre
dentials to be examined by its most bitter enc
mics, and wait in their ante chambers for a
decision.
We might have commented upon the ap-
pointment of Mr.. BELMONT, which we con.
demned, not because of his birth in foreign
land, but because OF his antecedents.
He had rotated out of the office Of Charge
Of the Austrian government-whichh he had held
during the hegyra of HULsEMANN-into the
office of Charge to Schnappesland, conferred
upon him by the Government of the United
States.
During the brief interval between his quit
ting the service of a despotism and entering
that of a republic, we have no information
that he defined his position upon the Compro-
mise, the slave question, or the Monroe doc
trne, further than his reported expenditure in
the Presidential election assure US that he sup
ported the Baltimore platform under some va
riety of the indulgent political classification
which admitted every shade of opinion to its
maintenance.
We certainly knew many American Demo-
Gratis who had earned the office by better and
longer service-who could have represented
the interests of the country more efficiently
who needed its emoluments more
But we said nothing, because since, according
to the proverbs of GREELEY, zone niger cannot
make newspaper so one Objectionable nomi-
nation cannot determine the diplomatic policy
of an administration.
we did not regard it as wise, scarcely pro-
per, to condemn in advance every act of an
administration which had come in under the
forms of the Constitution. We did not con
slider that malevoent and indiscriminate op-
position would strengthen our influence amongst
the immense mass of untrammelled and in
dependent citizens, who have far more to do
with results than the scheming politicians, who
resort to politics as trade; nor do we belong
to that school Of philosophers who consider
that our misfortunes may be aleviated by sing
song reproaches against the causes which may
have occasioned them.
The Democratic Administration will so or
ganize the Government as to carry into effect
their own principles in their own way, and it
is the result of their organization-their OBJ
servance of their pledges by which we shall
test their conduct. The complaints which,
however, have been made by the Democrats
themselves seem to have rendered an authentic
defence of the action Of the Government ne
cessary. We accordingly find in the Union
two assertions-the one that the three classes
of Democrats who united upon the Baltimore
platform are bound to maintain the adjustment
Another is: That no man either at the North
or the South has been appointed to office who
is not in favor of a faithful execution of the
Compromise, and opposed to renewal of the
sectional agitation.
We have compiled from the Union tabular
classification of the generic divisions and hybrid
varieties which were gathered under the COM
prehensive dome that covered the Baltimore
platform. 1t is evidently the work of an able
political naturalist, and will serve for future
reference:
ORDO DEMOCRATICUS
GENUS I.-NoRrHERN DEMOCRATS.
Species l. Wilmot provisoists.
2. Composed to a portion Of the Com.
promise.''
GENUS n.-SoyTHERN DEMOCRATS.
Species l. Opposed to the Wilmot Proviso.
3 ss7hose ,uho had objected to anothe,
portion Of the COMPROMISE"
GENUS III.-CoMPRomsERs.
Species l. Northern anti provisoists.
g. Southern anti-provsoists.
| This classification will show the difficulties
| which beset the Administration. 1t will also
show that although the test of favoring the faith
| full execution of the Compromise, and opposing
| any renewal of the sectional agitation, may
have been subscribed by euery individual ,chc
has taken the bounty, it by no means follows
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