The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-10-21
PRECIOUS DOCUMENT.

No paper has been prepared and sent forth
by the present administration that SO fully
sets forth the principles af the men now in
power, as the famous letter of Secretary
GUTHRIE to the Collector at New York Our
readers are aware OF the quarrel that is going
on between the Hurds and the Soits of that
State. MARCY belongs to the Softs, and
the policy of the administration has been to
buy up the old Barhburners and Buffalo plat
form men, by giving them office. This has
arrayed the old line Democracy against the
President and his cabinet. Collector BhoN-
SON is one OF the Hards, and In his appoint
ments he has remembered his friends This
has been matter Of complaint on the part OF
the Softs, and they have carried their griev-
ances to Washington. The subject of the
distribution of the spoils has been gravely
discussed in cabinet council, and the President
has formally instructed the Secretary of the
Treasury to say to the Collector ofNew York,
that he must appoint portion OF Barnburners
to the subordinate posts about the Custom
House. Think of this reader: The Pres
dent and cabinet Of this great Nation, leaving
the important affairs, that should engage their
attention, and descending 20 the patry bus-
ness of directing who should be appointed
weighers aud draymen at Custom House.
We do not know how others may regard this
letter, but it seems to US to be getting to a
lower depth than has ever before been reached.
1t seems to be designed to force BRohsoa to
resign How he can consent TO be dictated tO,ln
this way, in the selection of ofsubordinates, and
retain his sclf-respect, is a question that puz-
zles honest men.
The follown is the letter and we put it on
record, as one of the signs OF the times.
WAsHiSeToN, Oct. 1853
DEAR SIR:-Slnce the conversation we
had upon the subject Of the unfortunate dl-
vision in the Dem ocrutic party in New York
| feel more convinced that the disorganizntior
cannot fai! to ehdangcr the success OF The
party there; and to prove injurious elsewhere
But the separation is effected. a cdisictlol
has forced itself upon my mind, that, by De
mocra,s pledged to each other upon com
mon platform of principles, the divisions coul'
dnd oughu to have been prevented.
You are aware that the principles Of tn
Balti ihore convention, and the police Indl
Gated in The inausura! address, the presiJen
and his cons titutiuna advisers stand pledge
1, before the world. They have been an
are united as one man upoti those principle
and that policy, and had reason to believe tina
ali gen,l.inen who cohsented to accept off
. under the administration, stood pledged t
the same Principles iId policy.
As the president understands the principle
avowcd as the platform Of the party at Bal
) tmpfe, all Democrats who joined in upho
f ding and carrying out the same, we're ehtiile
to be recognize d as worthy Of the confdenc
of the united party, and consequently eleg
: BILE to official station.
That all could not obtain office was munifes
and that the distribution could not be exactl
= amongst the different sections OF the part
d was equ,lly certain. Yet the Distribute
i. was intended to be so made as to give no ju
: cause of complaint to any one section, al
g It is believed that this intention has 5e'
+" carried out, not only BY the president himse