The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-03-26
Prom the New Hanpshire Patriot
Removals from once.

We begin 10 hear The howngs OF the wing press over The
remov OF their friends from Office aud more removals
made their complaints will doubtless become loader
and violent This is at once foolish and contempt
ibe In the first place. they and their friends had no
reason 10 expect anything else The democrats open
ly proclaimed. 10 The OF the presidential con-
test that il they succeeded the wing officers would have
10 walk the plank. The wing candidate himself made
this the issue by declaring IN his letter oil acceptance,
that elected he should give the Offices TO his political
friends The wing officers also fought upon this issue,
most of them cheeriuy paying i've per cent OF their sal
aries TO aid in elestng Scott, with view TO retaining
their places; and OF them, like the deputy col
lector of Boston, declared that " if five per cent
needed TO defeat Frank Pierce. they were ready TO
pay it," How childish and contemplate il is. then. for
these fellows TO whine about being removed from Office
after having siaked their Offices upon the ISSUE and lost
Bat this complaining is ridiculous in another view
When in power the wing party has been The most pro-
scrptive party known. After having obtained pow
lS4S by load professions against prescription, they
made removals than were ever before made by any
three administrations. Take the New York custom
house as a sample There 626 officers there, excu-
sve Of laborers and il appears from the records that
since the wings came into power 472 removals have been
there made And TO show the greediness OF The wing ap
Pcanis for the spos 1t need only be stated that on the
very day the collector was sworn into Office he made
fortytwo removals. He made six before he sworn
In thirty days IRON the lime OF his entrance upon hf
duties he removed 900 persons and in the OF
few moatbs he had made such clean sweep, that only
80 democrats remained in office, with 56i wings! A like
sweep made in other custom houses and so clean
work did this anti prescription" administration make
in the offices, that democrat could scarcely be found
in an Office which wing could be found to take.
Now, how ridiculous it is for those who have caused
and justified This sweeping prescription, to whine
and scod when democratic administration is about
to administer to them their medicine. Is it to
be supposed that such gross prescription is to be al
lowed 10 20 uneproved and uncorected Is to be sup
posed that tn parsans and the tools of the Gaphins
the corrupt idle mbece with which the late ad-
mnlslralion filled the public oces-are TO be allowed to
disgrace and degrade the administration of Gen Pierce
an administration put in power mainly to correct their
gross abuses to reform their corrupt PRACTICES and to
store the government its ancient vigo and purity
Those who have SO thought will find out their mistake
in due season. Such would not be tolerated by
the people, an il will be pursued by the whom
thew have placed the head of their government And
whine and scod the federal ofcehoders and their
papers may and will they cannot make one hair white
nor black in this matter they cannot deter the present
administration from doing its duty to the country That
duty to clean the Augean stables, to root out coup
ton from the public Offices to restore all the departments
of public affairs state OF vigor, efficiency, and fidelity
to which they have been strangers during the last four
years This can only be done by making pretty thor
ough sweep of the present imbecie officials; but the
country may rest assured that it o be done, If
quires the removal Of every whg ofhce-holder in the
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