The Placer herald., 1856-12-27
From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov. u.
The Politicians of New York and the Pat.
ronage of the Administration.

Among the satisfactory circumstances of
Buchanan's election, we reckon the ia t that
he succeeds without the support of New York.
The politicians of the Empire State" have
not thought it possible that the operations of
Government could continue without their as
sistance The concet is taken out of them.
and we are GLAD of it, Since they discover
that President can be elected against their
will, perhaps they may not betray so much
of arrogance and importantly in their camor
for place.
At the threshold of his administration, Mr..
Pierce was embarrassed by the squabbles of
the New York politicians, and that early COM
plication has been the cause of all his subse-
quent trouble and disappointment. No doubt
he regrets that, after the selection of Secre-
tary of State, he did not slam the door of the
Treasury in the face of the ravenous and fero.
cious horde of spoismen from the State of
New York. If he had only avoided the clash
and conflict of the Shells, what all infnitv of
vexation would he have averted But this
policy was impracticabe under the crcum-
stances, and Mr.. Pierce had no alternative
but to make the most of cruel necessity.
We repeat now, what we maintained at
the time, that Mr.. Pierce distributed the
patronage of New York on a correct princi-
pie, with pure intention, and that his poll
cy failed of success simply because it was
not within the compass of human wisdom to
suggest a mode of apportonment which
would have appeascd the hunger and soothcd
the jealousies of the innumerabe aspirants
for place which the Empire State precipitated
upon Washington, in the spring of 1853.
Fortune is more propitiouS 20 Mr.. Bucha
nan. New York did nothing for him; and it
is not incumbent upon him to do anything
for New York. If there be within the State
(as undoubtedly there is) anything of public
virtue or political wisdom which he may en-
list in the service Of the country, he may
select the man in contempt Of the claims of
the politicians If he would have Marcy
to preside over the foreign relations Of the
government, Or Seymour to represent its
interests abroad, or Dickinson, or Wood
or Dix, or any other able and worthy citi-
zen, to serve it in some other function, he
may attain his object without the hazard Of
personal embarrassment But Mr. Buchanan
must have it understood in the beginning of
his administration-perhaps it would be well
to proclaim in his Inaugural Address that he
recognizes no sort of obligation to the poli-
clans of New York; thai what they get they
will receive out of mere favor; and that
their broils and wranglings are never to be
obtruded upon the consultation of the cabi-
net If Mr.. Buchanan will adopt this prompt
and peremptory policy, he will save himself
a world of veyation, and the country an in
fnity Of scandaIous disputaton. 1t was the
wise saying of the wsest of women, that ian
ungovernable beast should be stinted in its
provinder." Mr. buchanan may profit OF
the lesson, and by a judicious parsimony in
the dispensation Of patronage, may reduce
even the politicians Of New York to some
thing like decency and decorum in the pur-
suit of spoils.