The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-11-04
Ex-Collector Bronson,s Last word.


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Ex-ColIector Bronson's Last Word.
The letter the Secretary OF The Treasury, in which
Judge Bronson has taken leave OF the New York
house, has made SO le impression the public mind
as doubtless 10 convince tina, gentleman this that
would have been far better for him TO meet his we'll
deserved political deaah with the decsncy Of silence
Neither the abuse the Quibbing eophisiry OF the
Judges letter requires any reply hands, and
now notice il mainly point out the folly and audacity
OF the pre,ence which it puts forward. that the collectors
removal was an interference by the administration in the
local State guards OF the New York democrats This
peience, which appeared for time TO have been caught
up in some llinformed disaeced quarters outside of
New York. presen,ed boldly by the excollec,o in the
following paragraph al the close OF his letter
"And now what was the nature OF the controversy to
which you have made The national administration psryi
IL conflict between democrats and wings. but
between sections of The democratic party No cand
dates for national Offices in the field; and if the free
soil section honest in procaimng conversion the
principles OF the Baltimore platform and The inaugural ad
Dress there national issues stake II was purely
New York quarrel, Involving questions OF mere State
policy. In such quarrel member of tho cabinet At
Washington has taken sides and has in effect, told the
Of this State whom they select for their To-
cal rulers and what should be their policy In relation TO the
canals and ohe matters ofmerey local interest Your de-
NAL subject amount 10 nothing so long as the
facts remain unchanged
A brief. and a, we purpose part. final review
OF the leading facts OF the will expose to the public
both the nature and the motives OF this accusation against
the administration, and will show that Judge Bronson
was NO, removed until he had shown fixed purpose 10
interfere TO the whole Of his official power in the
local quarrel in 80 far local, and 10 conduc
Ixf.u hraa damn tha lArto pd
policy of the President. who had placed him in Office
It Is now conceded, and indeed avowed. on all
hands, tha, the democratic leaders who met al the
Globe Hotel were hostile to the democratic State add
minstraon on the canal question, and to the national
administration, both in its cabinet organization and its
policy ia the distribution of Office. Cooley had co-ops
rated with The wings through the whole legislative ses-
sion agaus, the State administration the canal ques
ton. and specially lauded by name for so doing in
the resolutions OF that seeding convention which made
him the head of their ticket. Bronson IN his first letter 10
the meeting called raufy the regular ticket, avowed
the canal policy a main why he should oppose
that ticket and support Cooley and Brady, and their
socia,e nominees So far the whole quarrel State
quarrel betw the democratic State administration and
the majority OF the democratic party, on the one hand.
sd certain seeding democrats under the ostensble lead
OF Cooley and Brady acting in concer, with the whiSs,
on the other At this stage OF the business Collector
Bronson, writing in 10 letter addressed TO him
in his official capacity and because OF bis Official capacity
by democratic committee from the democratic head
quarters al Tammany Hall, pledged himself over his
own signature, 10 interfere in that quarrel asd TO support
The best OF his ability, against the democratic State
and lis canal policy. the Cooley and Brady
ticket Thus the collector brought the whole power OF
the into the State quarrel and on the Sew
arde side OF the canal question, before the adminstfa
ton had written him word on the subject, in ANY
way interfered in the matter.
Blu, ,hi. was only the beginning OF the offence perpe-
a,ed by the collector in his first letter to the ratification
meeting before the administration bad addressed to him
word OF admonios. The Cooley and Brady ticket was
hostile 10 the national administration and Judge Bronson
knew this when he thus pledged his support to that
ticket Cooley, three months before biz nomination, bad
denounced the President iase TO all his principles
and pledges, in language mendacious and unmea-
sured IA TO give full presass OF that crazy and
ribaIdfy against the President and the Secre-
,ary OF the Treasury, which we quoted yesterday
n Just fallen from his lips at Syracuse, and which.
to the disgust OF the county, and the shame OF
his confederae. has branded him intellectually the
foul meuthea calumniaor known the political
history OF the United States Brady had several weeks
before his nomination. in published letter. declared his
purpose operate against the national administration.
Clark the chief speaker in the Globe Hotel convention
when called up to express it's sentiments, had, smids,
loud applause denounced the cabinet and the sdminslra
ton az meserves" The convention ITSELF in its reso.
lutons suding Cooley alone by name, bad significantly
refused say word in favor of the President or The
national administration, its organization. or s policy
or it's acts And finally, the convention which had gone
tn the Gob. Ho,. avowedly to shun any community OF
counsel with body Of recognised by The administra.
ton az sound democrats, and proclaming identical opin-
ions with themselves upon the sectional ssues and with
whom clear majority Of undispued Cass democrat. Of
then sttngthe convention ITSELF thus deter
mined upon breaking up the union OF the party in defeat
Of the policy Of the administration put in nomination
ticket avowedly framed upon the same exclusive and
d'.organizng principle, composed. we have seen in its