Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-10-14
WASHINGTON. Oct 8. 1853.

Dear Sr:-Snce the conversation we had upon
the subject of the unfortunate division in the Demo-
cratic party in New York feel more and more con-
WINGED that the present disorgarizaton cannot fail
to endanger the of the principles of the par
ty there, and to prove injurious elsewhere. But the
separation is effected. conviction has forced itself
my mind that by Democrats pledged each
other upon common Platform of principles, the
division could and ought to have been prevented.
You aware that to the principles of the Balt
more Convention and the policy minated in the in
augural address, the Pre>dent and his constitutions
al advisers stand pledged before the world. They
have been and united as one man upon those
prncip and that policy ard had 10 believe
that all gentlemen who consented to accept Office
under the Administration stood pledged to the same
principles and policy.
AS the President understands the principles avow-
I'd the platform of the party ut Baltimore. all
Democrats who joined in upholding and carrying
the same were entitled to be recognized o wor-
thy of the confidence of the united party and con.
Sequently eligible to official station. That all could
not obtain ofhce manifest, and that the dstri-
button could not be exactly equal amongst the diff
ferent sections of the party, equally certain
Yet the distribution was intended to be so made as
to give just cause Of complaint to no one section
and it is believed that this intention has been car
ricd out, not only by the President himself but BY
most of his appointees in respect to the Offices under
the latter.
1t has so happened that your appointments have
Deen very SoneTalIy Haue IFOm tDdC portion or the
party to which you adhere This you thought
best calculated to union and harmony. That
desirable object has failed to be attained: and the
other portion of the party feel that they have not
been fully recognized by you. and things now
stand, may not do Justice to your motives.
| call your attention to this subject, and. to the
fact that the President and his cabinet with entire
unanimity recognize that portion of the party as
| Democrats distinctly avowing and firmly maintain
ing the principles of the Baltimore platform, and
entitled to be recognized by appointments to official
stations in your department. Allow me to express
the expectation that you will recognize them in
the only way that will carry conviction with it.
| | have not hitherto deemed it necessary to make
any particular inquiry with regard to the section
Of the Democratic party to which persons nomna-
ted for positions in the custom house New York
belonged prior to the reunion of the party in l849
which reunion was supposed to have been thorough
ly cemened in the great and triumphant contest in
1852. But, as the present excited state of feeling
among political friends who acted together in 1852
and who now stand unequivocally upon the same
platform of principles in New York is suggestive of
a discrimination of which the administration will
not approve, shall send copy of this letter to the
naval officer and the surveyor of the port, in order
that there may be misrepresentation as to the
policy which the President will require TO be pur
| sued. an, very respectfully.
| JAMES GUTHRIE.
! C. c. BRONsoN Esq Collector. New York