Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-05-20

THE POLITICAL MILLENNIUM

The leading Wing papers seem to be az
well pleased with General Pierce as if he were
a Wing President. The Republic and the
1ntettlgencer find no fault with anything he
does, speak of his appointments as highly cred
liable, and take pleasure in recording anec-
dotes in his favor. We had not expected to
see the New York Tribune offering incense
also; but as this is a Political Millennium, we
need not be surprised to see the lion and lamb
lying down together. The Tribune longs for
peace-it would wander in green pastures
beside still waters, striving to forget the angry
controversies of thepast. Asto the President,
1t says
His Inaugural seemed to US rep1ete with
erroneous notions, enuneiated in exceedingly
bad taste; but none of his public official acts
have seemed to require or justify the COM
mencemcnt of warfare upon him."
Let us see:-
/. The President has carried to an extreme.
an evil Of which the country has always been
disposed te complain-ths appointment to
Office of Senators and Representatives. No
fewer than eight Senators have received ap-
pointments of great trust or profit, and still
larger number of Representatives.
2. Of the Representatives appointed, some
adbeen rejected by the People, on account of
having violated their pledges in regard to the
Slavery Question, and others had signalized
themselves by devotion to the Slave Power.
8. The policy of prescription on account of
political opinions has been commenced on
broad scale. 1t is not confined to the heads
of Departments and of Bureaus, but is extended
to the most obscure clerkships. The other
day forty clerks received their dismissal, for
no other reason than that they had been APP
pointed under Wing Administration
Some of them were men advanced in life,
with large families, and without any other
means of support. 1t is no ex use for this
ruthless prescription to say that General Jack
son encouraged it, and succeeding Admins
trations actedupon it. 1t is criminal, cruel,
and ruinous practice and the President who
authorizes it is just as guilty as if his prede-
cessor had not done the same thing. We can
understand that political opponent may ex-
cuse him, because he expects some day to ex-
change places, and will be glad to avail him
self of the same Internal precedent; but we
cannot understand how any honest man can
apologize for him.
4. The President has stretched his power
of removal in the case of Territorial Judges,
beyond all precedent. He has removed every
one of the Jud ges of every one of the Terri
tories, for no cause assigned and has supplied
their places with Judges of his own way of
thinking, thereby making the Territorial courts
mere party engines.
Here is series of "publc official acts
which ought to arouse the Indignation of hon.
est men ; but the New York Tribune does not
think that they require or justify exposure or
reprobation And in this opinion the Free
Soil Press, with here and there an exception,
seems to concur, Judging from its silence.
Now, we are not captious and have no
special fondness for contention; but we hate
the hypocritical cry Of peace, peace, when we
see every Principle for which We have contend
ed, repudiated by "the powers that be, and
profession of faith in the Compromise and
Fugitive Law made an invariable test of fit
ness for Office. That Wings whose only bond
of union has been protective tariff, and who
have embraced this faith, should ground their
arms and abandon all oppositon, is what might
be expected. They never can hope for apro-
tectiye tariff, andin all other respects the Adj
mlnistration justsuits them. But that Wings
who have protested hatred of Prescription,
devotion to an independent judiciary, regard
for the purity of the Legislative branch of the
Government, anG de.estation of the will of
the Slave Power, should flatter and bend the
knee to an Administration which they know
is without any sympathy fo7 them, needs some
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