Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-22
POLICY OF THE 1bMINIsTRATIoN.

POLICY OF THH ADMINISTRATION.
The following letter fomthe Secretary of the Treas
ury to the Hardr Collector Of New York shows pref
ty concusivey what those acquainted with the Presi
dent were well assured of before that the policy Of
the administration in regard to the distribution of
patronage is to be adhered to, in spite OF the claor
of disappointed and disaffected men. This letter,
with the note accompanying it to the Naval officer
and Surveyor is significant too much SO to requreS
any explanation.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 1858.
Dear SiT-Snce the conversation we had upon the
subject of the unfortunate division in the Democratic
party IN New York feel more and more convinced
that the present DISCRIMINATION cannot fail to
danger the success of the principles of the party
there, and to prove injurious elsewhere. But the
separation is affected conviction has forced itself
on my mind that by Democrats pledged to each 9TH
er upon common platform of principles, the divis
ion could and ought to have been prevented.
You are aware that the principles of the Baltimore
Convention, and the policy intimated in the naugu
raj address, the President and his constitutional adj
visers stand pledged to before the world They have
been and are united as man upon these princ-
pies and that policy, and had to believe that
all gentlemen who consented to accept Office under
the administration, stood pledged to the prin-
ciples and policy.
As the President understands the principles a.
vowed as the platform of the party at Baltimore, all
Democrats who joined in upholding and carrying out
the same, were entitled to be recognised worthy
of the confidence of the united party and consequent
ly eligible to official station.
That all could not obtain Office was manifest, and
that the distribution could not be exactly equal a
mongst the different sections of the party equal
ly certain. Yet the distribution intended to be
made as to give just of complaint to one
section and it is believed that this intention has been
carried out not only by the President himself but by
most his appointees in respect to the Offices under
the latter
1t has so happened that your appointments have
been very generally made from that portion of the
party to which you adhere. This you thought best
calculated to secure union and harmony. That de-
srable object has failed to be obtained and the 9TH
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 at
tention to this subject and to the fact that the Pres
dent and his Cabinet with entire unanimity, recog
nize that portion of the party Democrats distinctly
avowing and firmly maintaining the principles of the
Baltimore PLATFORM and entitled to be recognized by
appointment to official stations in your department.
Allow me to express the expectation that you will
so recognize them in the only way that will carry
conviction with it.
any particular inquiry to the section of the Demo-
cratic party to which persons nominated for posi-
tons in the Custom-House at New York belonged
prior to the reunion of the party in 1S49-which
union supposed to have been thoroughly &C.
mented in the great and triumphant contest in 1852
But the present excited state of feeling among po
ltcal friends who acted together in 1852, and who
stand unequivocally upon the same platform and
principles in New York, is suggestive of discrim
nation of which the administration will not approve,
shall send copy of this letter to the Naval Officer
and the Surveyor of the Port order that there may
be no misrepresentation to the policy which the
| President will require to be pursued.
am very respectfully,
| JAMES GUTHRIE.
G. G. BRONSON, Esq. Collector at New York.
Copies of the above letter were sent to the Naval
Officer and Surveyor, with the following note
| WASHINGTON, Oct 8, 1863.
Dear SRI enclose herewith copy of letter this
day addressed to the Hon. g. c.. Bronson. It will
explain ITSELF and show you what the President ex
poets in relation to the distribution of patronage in
the respective Offices the New York Custom House,
to which you will conform your action in any future
nominations you may have occasion to make.
| l am, very respectfully,
| JAMES GUTHRIE.