Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-29
,,ov -. or COLLECTOR BRONSON.

oyoI of Collector bronson Woulup e JIG SOlSoqu0
lie recent letter of defiance to the President, II
That every person with just sense Of proprietJ
must have expected. 1t is incompatible with the
d;onity of the Executive to retain subordinates II
office who manifest sort of respect for their supe
rors The letter of Mr.. Bronson was an appeal tc
faction against the policy of the Administration, ana
was manifestly designed challenge to the Presl-
dent The President is right in dismssing Bronson,
and the country will sustain him. This prompt Ooiu
nd inst measure illustrates his energy OF character
and will inspire ardour and confidence IN the BOSOM
of his friends The timid may alter, ana the urea
cherous may desert but honest Democrats VIII stanu
nv the President in his struggle with factlon FOR
time no doubt the rage of faction Will NIL the coun-
tv with its nfuriate yels, but the ebulliton over,
returning reason will vindicate the President and
cover the traitors with merited contempt
rFrom the Washington Union Oct. 23l
SATURDAY MORNING, October ~.
SIR Recently addressed letter to C0llec!or
Bronson and other officers of the customs In Ille CITY
New York. .,4 1o++or
By some means an imperfect copy OF tflat leEtel'
purporting to have been communicate III 30 e. nv
York by telegraph was published in one OF the pa
pers of this city. A. ,,ll;o
rT,iS rendered it proper for me to give the puolc
correct copy; and upon the gro1nT ol Prpnson
published his long delayed reply, even before the
original reached me- l.
transmit to you for publication the enclosed letter
Very respectfully, JAMES GOIdh1h-
WAsH1NGToN, Der. %, 1853
SIR: I have received your letter of the 9th inst
1t is not my purpose to respond to the many po-
sons of that letter. because most OF them bear their
contradiction upon its face, and others are too unlm-
nortant to require refutation; and also because,
While in several phrases of it, admitting your I'M
nlied obligation as man of honor, to act in accor-
dance with the known policy of the Administration
and moreover recognising the propriety and justice
of that policy by declaring that you yourself depre-
Gated and endeavored to prevent the division now
existing in the Democratic party in your State, you
nevertheless induged in tenor of remark, as to va
rious relations of the subject which not only i'm
pugns my motives but indicates attitude your
part wholly incompatible with harmonious co-opera-
ton between us and the proper conducto OF the busl-
ness of the Government
One suggestion appears in your letter which de-
mands animadverson. You alege by implication,
that have desired you to appoint free sellers to OF
fice and in doing SO, you strangely misunderstood
misinterpret my letter of the Sd instant Meth
er entertained nor expressed any such desire. 1t
has been my pleasure and my duty, not to inquire
into the opinions which may have been held by your
self and others far back the year 1S4S but to
regard the claims to consideration of all who have
acted with fidelity to the principles and organization
of the democratic party since the convention at Balt
more IN 1907, ana those only. Anu Will IuSSS
views, must condemn your course when in this let
ter you inform that you have selected frcesoiers
for Office without having given me the notice of the
fact, which would have enabled me to withhold my
appreciation from any such appointments will add,
that the mputation that have required you to act
with reference to controversies of local or State
character is wholly gratuitous My letter was in
tended to guard you against distinctions between |
democrats founded upon local politics and local di-
visions.
The concluding portion of your letter has left |
alternative but lay the whole matter before the
President and take his direction concerning it.
You assume that in relation to certain things you
to receive instructions from this department. and
n others that you to proceed without, contra
y to, such instructions. This cannot be admitted in
my branch of the public service; for where the de-
1artment is not expressly empowered to give instruc
ions to subordnate it has the authority to do so, as
Inherent in the power to remove refractory officer
You also assume that you are to appoint the vari-
Jus persons employed in the custom-house-some as
7ou admit, subject to my approval, and others, as
you seem to conceive, your sole authority. can
lot but regard il as singular that gentleman of
your legal requirements and experience should have
allen into such The constitution of the U.
states has empowered Congress to confer the APP
continent of inferior officers in the President alone,
the courts of law in the heads of departments
congress has not attempted nor if it had could it
ave effected, any modification of this provision of
ne constitution.
Those who are employed under you in the Custom
louise do, both by the Constitution and the laws, de-
i've their appointment and their authority as public
Ulcers from the Secretary of the Treasury alone.
What the language and temper of your letter
ould have rendered embarrassing, these unwarran-
lbe assumptions marked as they are by manifest
Dirit of INSTRUMENTATION render mpossible-namely,
our continuance in the office of Collector of the
district of New York. am, therefore, directed by
he President to say that your successor in the office
i'll be promptly appointed
have the honor to be- very respectfully,
JAMES GUTHRIE.
GREENE G. Bronson, Esq, New York.
The first letter of Mr. Guthrie, it is SEEM was i'm
erfectly published, and though not designed for the
apers he was thus constrained to give to the pub
correct copy.
President Pierce was elected upon the basis of
'mplete cessation of the slavery agitation; and he
as supported by the Democrats of New York with
ut regard to their past opinions and position this
lestion. His course in relation to New York Dem
rats is but the legitimate result of his position in
lie campaign and we at loss to perceive how
~ one can reasonably having all the facts in view,
ndemn him for this course. {
The foregoing letter of Mr.. Guthrie is just what
light have been expected of the Administration by
real friends in all quarters The Administration {
is been charged vita having taken sides with the t
in New York and against the Hunkers,
hen the truth is it has taken sides with neither but
Is endeavored to confine itself in its appointments
the Democratic party proper without reference to
ese unfortunate divisions. This is clearly shown c
Mr. Guthries letter, and he distinctly and en- {
laticaly tells Mr. Bronson that he condemns his