Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-07-06
cIARKsBURG, WEDNESDAY JULY s 1858.
's No Resentments to Remembers,

No Resentments to Remembers,
Pres't Pierce among the honeyed and
delusive phrases uttered in his inaugural,
gave vent to the aboye-he had ono re-
sentiments to remember % In selecting
persons to fill offices. regard should be
had TO fitness and qualification, rather
than political affinities. Such were his
aYowed doctrines when just about enter
ming to the portals of power. How has
he maintained them? Let the daily re-.
cordsofremovals and appointments supply
the answer. The presidential chair had
scarce warmed under its new occupant.
ere he began ruthless and indiscrimi-
nate prescription of all those official in
cumbents who could not or would not ar
tlculate the shibboleth of locofocoism.-
Never, since the organization of our 60
yernment, have there been SO many re-
movals in SO short space of time. The
"bloody guillotine," whose occasional
workings caused such deluge of tears
during the recent administration, is now
at work all the while, and countless are
the victims whose heads fall under its
merclless operations. Yet, we hear
none of the sobs or groans-we see none
OF the crocodile manifestations so COM
mon four years ago. How is this ? Why
is the removal of Wing office holders SO
general?-so universal? Is it pretended
that none of them are Eft or qualified
for the stations they have SO well filed /?
Or, are they ousted merely because they
are Wings But Mr.. Pierce has no re-
sentiments to remember. He beheads all
these clerks, not for revenge or because
the public service requires their execu-
ton, but simply because he can Like
Nero OF old, he doats on power and re-
Vels IN It's exercise, lnsomuch that the i'm
notation of those whom chance has pla-
ced within his grasp, is but pleasant
pastime.
We copy the above from the Parkers-
burg Gazette. Friend Sterrett has GER
tainly drawn a very affecting picture
enough to make man weep tears of
blood, but his memory seems to be very
treacherous.
If our recollection serves US right, Gen
Taylor declared that he had "no friends
to reward, and no enemies to punish, -
&c, that "Whigs and Democrats had
fought by his side, and that no man
should be prescribed for opinions sake"
and that no statement was publicly made
by him, of different import. But what
was the result -? No one pretends that
he fulfilled these solemn pledges made to
the people Then had not the Demo-
cratic party just cause to complain of the
deception practised on the people ? and
this was their only ground of complaint
not Hut tie removals aOere made, but that
the administration of General Taylor had
taIsifed IFS most solemn lorotestations
Mr.. Sterrett also seems to forget that
in his inaugural General Pierce said =
"No reasonable man of any party will
expect the administration to be so regard
less of its responsibility, and of the obvi-
GUS elements of success, as to retain per-
sons known to be under the influence of
political hostility and partizan predju-
dice, in positions which will require
not only severe labor but cordial CO.
operation :" and that from the time of
his nomination, not sentence can be
found susceptible of different construc-
ton. And yet after this manly avowal of
his intentions, and notwithstanding the
earnings of the Wing press. Gen. Pierce's
has been less prescrtptive
than was that of Gen. Taylor with all his
no-party pledges.
We are somewhat surprised that one
so well-informed and generally so unpre-
JUDGED as the editor of the Gazette,
should utter language like the above ex-
,ract from that paper, and can only &C
count for it on the principle that
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law"