Daily American organ., 1856-08-22
President Pierce's Free-soil Appoint

The Washington correspondent of the Nashville
Gazette, reviews the letter of the Hon. Sam. A.
Smith, in regard to President Pierce's Free-so ap-
pointments, as follows:
WASHINGTON, August Z, 1885,
Eds Gazette: Hon. Samuel A. Smith, NJ. O.,
from Tennessee sometime during the month of
June or July last wrote letter to a Dr. Shaw, Of
North Carolina, which has been extensively pub
! lished in the Southern Sag Nicht press, in which
letter the following passage is found. In alluding
to the appointments of Fillmore and Pierce, he
says:
" The difference, therefore, in this respect, be-
tween the two Presidents, is this that while Gen.
Pierce may have appointed some Free-soilers to
office without knowledge of the fact that they
were such at the time, Mr.. Fillmores appointees in
the Northern States were all Free-soilers, and
known to be such ut the time Of their appoint
ment."
propose to examine the truth of the charge
against Mr. Fillmore, and to expose It's utter falsity
"Mr. Fillmores appointees in the Northern
States were all Freesolers," says Mr. Smith-yet
he fails to mention the name of one individual. All
the offices in the gift of the President had been
filled by Gen. Taylor, and the only vacancies which
occurred were created by Fillmore turning out
their places Mr.. Fillmore dismissed Palmer V.
Kelog, of Utica, Marshal of the Northern District
of New York l.. Allen, Collector at Buffalo Thos
Cloves, Postmaster at Troy, and Lewis Benedict
Postmaster at Albany, who were Free. sellers, and
appointed staunch silver grey Wings in their
phces, and these silver grey Wings dismissed all
the subordinates who were of the Seward school,
and filled their places with national men These
are facts upon record"
There is no instance on record or within the
knowledge of SAM Smith where Mr.. Pierce has
dismissed Free-soiler; on the contrary, the in
stances, as will show are numerous where he
has dismissed sound national Democrats and ap-
pointed Buffalo Van Buren, Free-soilers He ap-
pointed John A. Dix Sub-Treasurer of New York I;
he removed Bronson, Hard Democrat" and
appointed John Cochrane, Frcesoiler; he ap
| pointed Isaiah Rynders, Free-soil bully; he ap
| pointed Fowler Postmaster of New York CITY,
Buffalo platform Free-soiler and all the subordn-
ates in these Offices are Buffalo Van Buren Free
solers. He dismissed, during the month of Feb
ruary last, the Postmaster, Hard Democrat, at
Monticello, N. T., and appointed notorious Free
soiler III his place. The New York News Dem
ocratic paper, denounced the appointment at the
time In February last he appointed two Free
soilers to office on Long Island, as is proven by
the following letter. published in the New York
News (Democrat) of February 9th
ADMINISTRATION APPoINTEEs ON LONG ISLAND.
-, Long Island, Feb 4, 1856.
To the Editors Of the ". Y Daily NesOs
81 have just been informed that Jonathan Smith,
of lslp, has been appointed coast Inspector Mr..
Smith and Mr.. Miller, the two inspectors are COM
petent men, and also are both Free-soilers They
were both supporters of Van Buren, and Adams in
4S, and warm supporters of s. B. Gardiner, the
Freesoi candidate for Senator last fall, in oppos
ton to VIM, III. Furman, the national Democratic
Intn hntI Of fhpn, Al
that there not the least chance for Gardeners
election, (who received but COS votes, while
Furman received 1896, more than two to one
but the Free-soil Democrats succeeded in drawing
off votes enough from Furman to elect Rider, the
Black Republican and Soft Senator
"These are the men who receive appointments
under President Pierce, who seemed to despise
the Free-soilers and Abolitionists so much in his
late message, and whose patronage, in the strong
old Democratic counties of Long Island, is dis
pensed, through VIM. H. Ludlow, to such men as
Smith and Miller"
lie appointed Montgomery Blair to the office Of
Solicitor of the Court of Claims. He appointed
Robert j. Atkinson Third Auditor of the Treasury,
who, in September, 1856, made speech at
WaynesN urg, Starke county, Ohio, endorsing the
Democratic resolutions which had been passed, one
Of which declared that the "people now, as they
have always done, look upon slavery as whitening
curse" Is he not Free soiler? He appointed
John w. Gray Postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio
This man owns and edits the Cleveland PlaiDdealer
notorious Freesol paper, which has been fed at
the public crib, and which is now supporting Bu-
chanan. Its platform is, "Eo more slave States,
no further extension of slavery" He appointed
Hone District Attorney for Illinois, Van Buren,
elector in lS48. He. appointed Henry Orocker AID.
praser at Boston, rank and rabid Abo.itonist
He appointed Henry w. Bishop Assistant Treasu-.
rer at Boston. Bishop was the Free-so candidate
for Congress in the Berkshire district of Massachu.
sets in 1852, and since, the Fusion candidate for
Governor. The Boston Atlas of September, 1862,
in speaking of Bishop, says :" He came down here
LBostonl during the struggle to elect United
States Senator, January, 1851, l and exerted all
his influence to elect Charles Sumner" The Green
vile (Massachusetts) Republican, most ultra Abo-
tion Sheet in his contest for Congress- endorsed
his true Free. .soilism.
He appointed b. +. Hallet District Attorney Of
Massachusetts,. He sent Dan Sckles as Secretary
Of Legation to London. He gave the printing of
the United States Laws to the Albany Atlas, ed
tied by one Vandyke, now supporter of Fremont
He dispensed patronage to the New York Sunday
Atlas, Free-soi paper, now supporting Buchanan,
and throughout the North he dispensed the pat
ronage of the Federal Government to Free soil
papers. In New York, the entire pati onape of
the General Government was given to the Soft or
Free-so wing Of the Democracy, and Just here |
viii introduce some Democratic testimony as to
the Free-soilism of this wing Of the Democracy
The Duchess Democrat, now supporting Bu-
chanan, said of John p. Beekman, Martin Van
Buren's brother-in-law, and who was a m ,mber of
the Cincinnati Convention:
Mr.. Beekman has controlling influence over
the Freeman, the Soft paper in Columbia county,
which was an outspoken opponent of the Kansas
Nebraska act all along, until the approximation of
the Cincinnati Convention somewhat modified its
tone. He was also the political engineer of the
Convention in that county which sent two rabid