Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-09-15

as briefly as possible for the benefit of rota. tionists cite their cases.
 Gen. Cass the Secretary of State, with the exception of perhaps two years, has been an office-holder for nearly fifty years. His term of office as Senator expired on the 4th oi March, 1857, and he was called by Mr. Buch- anan to a seat in his cabinet on the 9th o March, 1857.
 Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury has represented his district in the lower house of Congress for many years, and was mem- Der of the last Congress-
 Gov. A. V. Brown, Postmaster General, served in the legislature and was member of Congress from Tennessee for many years, and while member was nominated by the demo- cratic party of that State as their standard bearer in the gubernatorial contest in 1S45.- He was elected and was again nominated al- most unanimously in 1847.
 Gov. Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, had we'll and faithfully served his State in various capacities for many years, and like Gen. Cass, hlS term as Senator expired on the 4th of March, 1857, and he was appointed Secretary Of the Navy on the 5th of the same month.
 Gov. Floyd, Secretary of War, has also been in public life for years, having served as Governor of Virginia, and filled other impor- tand trusts through the partiality of his con- stituents.
 Jacob Thompson represented his district in Congress for fourteen consecutive years, having been elected seven times.
 Judge Black had several times been nomin- ated and elected by the democracy of Penn sylvania to the office he filled at the time he was appointed Attorney General.
 But Maurice tells us that heads of bureaus and clerks are removed in Washington daily upon the ground of rotation. Let us go to the record and see if the facts will bear him out in his assertions. Four changes in the heads of bureaus have occurred during the present ad mlnlstration, that is to say, Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1st Comptroller of the Treasu- ", 2d Auditor, and Commissioner of Patents; the latter official having recently resigned, and his successor has not yet been appointed.
 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, appoint ed by Mir. Pierce, resigned. Several applicants advocated their claims for office, some of them had not held office, but Mir. Denver, of Cali. fornia, who was a member of the last Congress, was successful.
 Mir. Whittlesey 1st Comptroller of the rraa I been Governor of Ohio. Commissioner of In. dian Affairs, and member of Congress, was ap- pointed.
 Mir. Clayton resigned the 2d Authorship, a position which he had held for eight years, having been appointed by Mir. Buchanan As slstant Secretary of the Treasury, and the Hon. MT. Fuller of Maine, a member of the last House of Representatives, position he had held for six years, was appointed
 These are all the changes that have taken place, in the heads of bureaus, up to this time, and from the manner in which they occurred and the persons selected, it is evident that rota- ton had nothing to do in the matter
 Of the twelve or fifteen hundred clerks in the executive departments not more than hi,t4 removals have been made, and no democrat is of the number on account of rotation. In addition, the services of thirty clerks hay e been dispensed with in the pension office. under the operation of law-there being no appropriation to pay them. The majority of them were known to be of black republican and Know Nothing proclivlties and sympathies. The few democrats among the number, were Lot dis bharged for the purpose of rotating them, and they have, generally speaking, since received appointments in other bureaus
 These are the facts as they exist, and can not see how any rotationist can, upon them place the administration upon his platform Instead of being so, by its policy and action, il IS directly opposed to him, and instead of at tempting to induce the people to believe it is with him, as he is opposing its policy and action, he should at once attack it for it. Con. slStency requires such course, but policy leads m different direction. But the thing is toe transparent, and he can only, in view of the action and policy of the administration, be cIassed as in opposition to it.
 Our rotation friends point, with much satis- | faction, to Gen. Jacksons first term as the orlgln Of their doctrine. They are very silent as to hls second term. and well they may be- W hen he succeeded to the presidency, he found almost every office filled by bitter political foe, and 1t was but proper and right, that he should remove them, to make room for his friends. This he at once did, and the official registers show that during his secom term, he i did not remove them, but they remained dur. Ing hls eight, and nearly all of them, the fou, years of his successor, Mr. Van Buren, He wont do, as precedent, for the turning out of federalist and putting ill democrat, and tn en Keeping that democrat in office during his two terms, Is not the kind of rotation the advocate, ot this new light profess so much love for.
 Maurice also says:
 MT. Buchanan's administration is. perhaps the best embodiment of constitutional demo. cracy we have ever had Raised to the sum mt of political dignity by the democratic peo. l pie and acting under their immediate instruc tons, his acts are more likely to embody pure constitutional democracy than are the acts ol opinions of any family, party or clique"
 To every word of which heartily subscribe and as every act of his administration is op posed to your rotation doctrine, you cannot bt strong advocate of it after all.
 SENEX. Rotation.
 Washington, Arhansus September 4th, A. D. 1957.{
 MR. EDIToR-I observe that some of the