New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-06
MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 6. 1858
THE PREsIDE.NTa.ND HIS FRIENDS


The Washington Union, the organ of the Ad.
ministration, speaks with the utmost compla.
cency, and indeed with spirit of proud salts.
action, in relation to the exercise of the ap.
pointing power by the President. AT one time
the newspapers announce that the voracious
Appetites of the free-soilers are satisfied by re-
osiving large share Of the spoils, and we set
Il down that the President has strong predilec-
lions for that faction. But scarcely has the
sound Of their murmurs died away, when it is
promulgated that secessionists, Sc dyed IN the
scool," are made the recipients Of official pa
.tronAge, and then the antecedent conclusion is
reversed, and the opinion forces itself upon us
that the President is decidedly partial to the ul-
traists, and to the multiplying party Mr.. Pierce,
in making his appointments to Office, has Sc
lsctsd, the objects Of his especial favor, those
sbolitionists Of the North who recently toiled
with so much labor to subyert the Union,
Never, at any former period of our political
history did any man or body Of men endea-
vor to break this Union into discovered parts
as boldly as did Mr.. Van Burens abolition
friends in 1S4S, and the fre-eaters in 1850
and 1861. Yet, from out these factions, es-
psoially the former, (abolitionists,) and free
scilers, does the President make his impor-
tant selections for high and prominent Off
ces Look at the prominent incumbents filling
distinguished stations. There seems to be q
determination on the part of the President to
give Hon John A. Dix high position, at all
hazards And what is the character and what
are the antecedents of Mr.. Dix He is free
soiler, and in 184S ran for Governor of the State
Of New York on the Van Buren, ticket. That
ticket, as is we'll known, was entirely e-soil,
and made up Of free-soil issues alone, and was
opposed to the regular democratic nominee
(Cass) and the whig ticket. Its object was to
prostrate every thing approaching to Conserva-
tism. He stood throughout this political strug-
gle by the side of Martin Van Buren, And now
four years after these transactions transpired,
he is rewarded, for his unpatriotic conduct,
first by an appointment as Sub Treasurer in
Network, and it is said that he will be ap-
pointed United States Minister to France Is
fanaticism thus to be rewarded
Again The following interrogatives were pro-
pounded to Mr.. Thompson Campbell, of Illinois,
and also to Mr.. Maloney, both of whom answered
them in the affirmative, and were elected to
to Congress in that State:
l. "Win you II elected for and cordially support
b prohibiting slavery in the Territories of the United
awm you vote for and support bill abOlishing sa.
very in the district of Columbia!
3"Win you vote for and advocate the repeal of the
Fugitive Slave Law passed at the recent session of Con-
awill you advocate and vote foy the election of
willing TO organize the committees of the House so
legislation
To those questions Mr. Thompson Campbell
returns the following unequivocul answers:
"To the first and second irterrogatories
To the fourth and fifth interrogatories
hesitatingly in the Affirmative"
The appointment of these gentlemen to Office
shows very clearly the free-soil afinties of Pre-
sident Pierce Mr.. Campbell has been appointed
Land Commissioner in California, with q salary
of $4,000 per annum and Mr.. Maloney, Regis
ter of the Land Office at Chicago, also a profta-
Die Office. Mr.. Long, another Free soiler in H.
linois. is appointed Register of the Land Office
Mr.. Snowbrook, also free-soiler, takes the
Collectorship at Chicago, with a large salary.
These persons, for many years, have pandered
to the abolition sentiment.
Thomas Hayne, free-soiler, has been ap-
pointed District Attorney for Illinois. The du-
ties Of United States Attorney are of peculiar
and serious moment. The laws of Congress are
to be enforced through his instrumentality
Has fugitive slave been arrested and his owner
assailed by a mob, it is the duty of the attorney
to prosecute the rioters to conviction. How dis
tressing indeed to witness the awkward attempts
of free-soiler to vindicate the right of proper
ty against the "higher latc" and the "rights
Of mankind
All Of the Offices in Wisconsin, have been Sc
lected from the same ''stagnant pool of cor
ruption, and all these officers are directing the
energies Of their minds, to accomplish the over
throw Of Southern institutions.
In New York, Mr.. John Coohrane, the blood |
kin Of Gsfrit Smith notoriety, of the Buffalo |
platform, full and deeply dyed abolitionst, has
besn appointed Surveyor of the Port.
Mr.. Isaac v. Fowler fills the responsible office |
Of Postmaster of New York city. This gentle
man was incipiently Barnburning abolitionist |
He opposed General Cass and voted for Van |
Buren, and Adams. He assisted in breaking UP |
the first meeting called at Tammany Hall to |
resist the Wilmot prociso He denounced the |
Compromise measures, which General Pierce in |
his Inaugural maintains as strictly constitu- |
tional and ought to be enforced
We have taken some pains in presenting these |
facts to the consideration of the people, because
1t is quite plain, at this very crisis, whilst |
the Administration are bestowing Office on /
free-soilers, that the organization of that /
party in New York, New Hampshire, Connecti-
cut. Massachusetts,, Iowa and Wisconsin, is
nearly completed, for the prosecution of the war
against the Southern section of thisconfederacy,
which is only postponed until these factions |
could break down the party that imparts no |
support to sectional controversy, but sustains |
tne union-the common palladium of our secu
rity' We consider every soil appointment
rs undermining the foundation of Southern in. |
situations, and every such bestowment of Office
rs an augmentation of the number of our foes
But let US look at the other extreme. Pierre
Soule, an ultraist Of the multiplying faction. is
honored with the mission to Spain. Putting
aside his extreme views, have his declarations
in the United States Senate with reference to
Spanish dominion, and his marked aversion To
the regency at Madrid, been such as to recon.
mend him as a fit person to represent the Amer.
lean Government at that Court
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