The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-16
The whix Press on Removals

The Richmond lines claims great credit for the man.
in which its parlisans bear the process OF decapta-
ton. We cannot that they deserve any special
pment, when it is considered that they clamorous
for prescription four years ago in defiance Of the pledges
and promises by which their party had carried the cleo
lion in The preceding autumn. Party prescription
then established, and carried out with degree OF vim
dctveness unprecedented in our history and they re-
ceved the benefits OF it. General Scott, in his letter ac-
cep,ng the wing nomination, gave in his adhesion to
that policy and the democratic party iriumphed last
November without pledge, even by the most re-
mote implication, that they would permit hose in
Office 10 continue in the enjoyment of places which
they had obtained by perhdy, and filled in such
manner to introduce confusion in every branch
Of public business, and corruption in every branch
OF public expenditure Under such circumstan the
complaints OF those who may be removed would be i'm
pudent audaciy, in such concentrated and glazing form
call forth The SCOTS and jeers of the people They
dare not complain aud il is not ortude, but the fear Of
ridcule and the hope 10 Of those yet re-
moved, which seals the lips of wing journalists.
Some weeks since the Louisville Journal stated that
President Pierce had, while member OF the Senate in
s4l denounced removals from office. We exposed that
statement when il was made but the Richmond Times
repeats it with degree OF posi,veness well calculated TO
impose upon the ignorant The President never made
such speech the attributed TO him. But If he
had, circumstances have altered since. The one al
uded TO by the Journal and the Times made In sup.
port OF a call for the OF the persons who had
been prescribed by the administration which was in
stalled in March, ls4i for that the wings OF
that day paid that respect for their pledges which
implied The attempt 10 conceal the violation OF them.
Tie President then a senator from New Hampshire, con-
ased the professions with the practices of the wing
party. He showed how the power OF removal and ap.
poinmenl bad been used strengthen abolition isna,i.
cism in the North, and he cited the declarations Of
wbig leaders-Mr Ewing, the chief butcher of the
ylor cabal, among ohers-denying that the Pfesi.
dent had the power OF removal, and denouncing pro.
scrpton and party appointments in the strongest Ian
guage they could command He proved that the ,Shig
party fully committed by those declarations and the
resolutions Of wing meetings and conventions and he
complained OF the perhdy OF their vndctve policy adopt
ed in the face OF such commtisls That was the point
OF his argumen-rhe con,ras, between wbg professions
before election and wing performances after obtaining
power. The Richmond Times, following in the foot
steps OF the Louisville Journal has misrepresented
him The Times will find the Journal an unsafe
leader; and would advise il TO abandon such a
guide and look for itself, when j, undertakes to speak
Of matters OF public record Ia 1919 the Taylor cabinet
followed in the footsteps OF the Harrison cabinet OF 1871
in violating the pledges they made before the election
BY adopting ruthless and yndicve system in the face
Of promises OF moderation and fobearance under CIR.
cos,ances which made each removal an assault on the
character OF the officer removed The democratic press
and the democratic party complained OF the dishonesty of
such and the country justified their complaints
Now the Richmond Times and other whig journals con-
as The conduct Of the democrats four years ago with that
OF the wings, who have been recently removed and claim
for their pasans dignity and fortude by the contrast
The claim is prepos,eous Wing partisans would cry out
Justify enough they expected sympathy and support
bot they dare not, for they know that the people would
turn deaf TO their cries, and feel pity for their
distress.