Washington telegraph., 1854-04-26
Executive Domination.

We recently enforced our conviction that the
Pierce Administration is in its way the most ar
oiuary ana domineering one that the country has
known. by citing the testimony of Judge Bavlev.
ol Virginia. who. our readers have not forgotten
exclaimed. IN fit OF intolerabe disgust. that he
was tired OF being eternally arralgned for having
mind OF has own and expressing it. ard intima-
TED: with equal pnnsency and classic point that
while the President haI party and Douglas a
party, the Republic had none-a. least in the bo-
som oi Locoiocoism. We now have it in our
power to corroborae the statement of this veteran
Democrat by the following extraordinary avow
ais ana sun more extraordinary innuendnes of the
washington Sentinel, the organ of the -Nationar'
section oil the Democracy. None can fail to per
ceive the covert inteut of the passages we have
ltahcised. However unpleasant it may be to dis
cover crimes and peccadioes in the alministra
ton, u IS always pleasant TO establish them by
the evidence OF Its own friends. This description
OF proof, being in the nature OF admissions against
interest, mas the advantage of proving peculiarly
satisfactory to people in general while ii seals the
lips OF the guilty inpartcular. Here are the con-
LESSONS OF the Sentine:
w hen Congress has an officer of its own to
eject without any nomination by the President
men are accustomed to sav such a one is fhe adj
mlnistratlon candidate, and Congress will not
care TO disregard the wishes and the influence of
the administration. Every man in Washing ton.
who has ears to hear, has heard such remarks
! uue aiter liile.
Now, the constitution gave TO the Exerutive
all the power it intended him to have. Wbe,, he
has the power to nominate officers TO the Senate
re has the right to use his influence 10 procure
their ratification. Such nominees are empbatical
" administration candidates. But when either
hoase OF Congress has the sole power Of electing
tas IS the case IN regard to their own oficers1
without any power OF nomination in the Execu
tive, then the Executive has no risht. either
directly or indirectly to interfere. To nut mn
what Is cahed an administration candidate. Is
lndelicate in itself, 6isrespectful. and dictatora
to Congress, and subversive of the constitution.
and yet, how often does it happen that miser-
able subordinates, whipper-snappers. and man.
ayers go about on such occasions. with bnstl
ing self-lmportance. to spread the order that as
such man is the administration candidate Con.
gress will be expected TO elect him. If they do
not elect him. 1t is understood that an affront has
been given 10 the administration and that nromnt
punishment will be Inilicted We take this case
because latterly it has been dinned into the ears
of everybody in Washington and because # i
one OF the strongest cases that can be cited IN H.
lustrate the danger OF encroachnent. TAis conn
try should at any time be cursed ri,h corru,,t Con
gress and corrupt E1efiue then The ,rboir t5coy,,
Of balance Of poteer ami separation, of the denoy
niests couLd De destroyed and one department rojd
become subordinate and sHbservie,lt 10 another.
There is another aspect of this subject. n eo,n-
5indt'om nugh' take laoe betussn the Executive and