Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-10-29
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
MONDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1858.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.

MONDAY, OCTOBER "a, 1858.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT
HEMAN j. REDFIELD, Collector of the district
Of New York, vice Greene c. Bronson, removed.
JOHN J. CISCO, Assistant Treasurer Of the
United States at New York, yica John "A. Dir, re-
signed
district Of New York, vice W. AAlfcl0,
The above appointments, announced officially in
the Union yesterday, settle the question which has
been much mooted for several days past namely,
whether Collector Bronson would be removed from
office. The announcement of the removal was ac-
companied in the Union with the following letters
from the SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, which it
is due to the parties that we also should give.
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER %.
SIR: Recently addressed letter to Collector Bron
and other officers of the customs in the city of New
York.
BY some imperfect copy of that letter, pur-
porting have been communicated from New York by
telegraph was published in one of the papers Of this
city This rendered it proper for to give to the pub
Tic correct copy and upon the ground of that pubca
ton under such circumstances, Collector Bronson pub
shed his longdelayed reply, even before the original
had reached me.
Under these circumstances / deem it proper to trans
NIT to you for pubicaion the enclosed letter.
Very respectfully,
Editor of the Union. JAMES GUTHRIE.
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER %, 1858.
SIR have received your letter of the 18th instant
II not my purpose to respond to the many positions of
that letter. because most of them bear their contradiction
upon its face, and others unmporant to require
refutation and also because while in several phrases of
it admitting your implied obligation man of honor
to act in accordance with the known policy of the Adj
minstraton and moreover recognising the proprey and
justice of that policy by declaring that you yourself de-
precated and endeavored to prevent the divisions
listing in the Democratic party in your State you
theess INDUCED in tenor of remark, to various rea
ons of the subject which only impugns my motives,
but indicates attitude your part wholly incompa,
ble with harmonious cooperation between us and the
proper conduct Of the business of the Government
One suggestion appears in your letter which demands
animadyersion. You allege, by implication, that have
desired you to appoint Freeoers to Office and in doing
you strangely misinteprct my letter
Of the Cd instant. neither entertained expressed
any such desire 1t has been my pleasure and my duty
to inquire into the opinions which may have been
held by yourself and others far back the year S4S
but regard the claims to consideration Of all who have
acted with fidelity the principles and organization Of
the Democratic party since the Convention at Baltimore
in 1882 and those only. And, with these views, must
condemn your when in this letter you inform me
that you have selected Freesoiers for Office without hav
ing given me the notice of the fact which would have
enabled to withhold my appreciation from any such
appointments. / will add that the imputation that
have required you with reference to controversies
of local or State character is wholly grauious. My
letter was intended guard you against distinctions be-
tween Democrats founded upon local politics and local
divisions
The concluding portion Of your letter has left me no
LnFnx. fla Drnu
dent and take his direction concerning it.
You assume that ip relation certain things you are
to receive instructions from this Department, and in
others that you proceed without contrary to such
instructions This be admitted In any branch Of
the public service for where the Department is not
prcssly empowered give instructions to subordnates 1t
has the authority to do So inherent in the power to
remove a refractory officer.
You also assume that you are to appoint the various
persons employed in the custom housesome, you ad
nit subject my approval and others, you seem to
conceive Oh your sole authority cannot but regard it
as sngusr that gentleman of your legal requirements
and experience should have fallen into such The
Constitution OF the United States has empowered Con-
grsss to confer the appointment of inferior officers in
the President alone the of law in the heads
Of Departments" Congress has not attempted it
had could it have effected, any modification Of this pro-
vision of the Constitution
Those who employed under you in the custom house
do both by the Constitution and the Laws, derive their
appointment and their authority public officers from
the Secretary of the Treasury alone
What the language and temper Of your letter would
hayerendered embarrassing these unwarntablc assump
tons, marked they by manifest spirit Of insubor
dinaton render impossible namely your continuance in
the office OF Collector Of the district Of New York
am therefore directed by the President to say that
in the Office will he nrorortly onnointed
! have the honor to be, very respectfully,
JAMES GUTHRIE.
GREENE g. BRONSON, ESQ, New York.