New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-13

Banks's neddle.
Thomas Mexican. member Of the Stamplct
Congress of 1866, of the first Continental Ccagrs
of IVA, and of every subsequent Congress III The
preliminary articles of peace were signed, hei
dent of Congress in 1881, for twenty years ,ai
more ChefJustiee, and afterward, from l79)b
1903, Governor Of Pennsylvania--a distinguiA@
member of the Democratic party, having had
chief hand in making Pennsylvania Democratic
State-in letter written in his old age to John
Adams dated August %, 1879, thus express,
himself: 1T does not seem to me that either Of
"your successors enjoy more ease than your pre-.
" decessor. Mr. Madison has paid too great def
erence to the recommendations to Office BY low
I" and designing men, who stood very much in need
of recommendations themselves, though excellent
90 Democrats, if they were 10 be credited. Mr.
" Jefferson split on the same rock. Many Of their
appointments have been exceedingly improper.
Though Gen. Washington conferred Office upon
4" some Tories, yet they were capable and only IN.
deserving"
Nor does it by any means subtract from tho
weight due to this censure that Mexican himself
was largely responsible for the introduction Of the
system which he condemns of appointing TO Office
with little regard to capacity and on the strength
of party services or party buster and pretensOns-
having himself been the father Ofthe proscriPtw
system of removals and party appointments Of which
he gave the first example, on his accession TO
the gubernatoral chair of Pennslyvapa--aa eI.
ample which, against the wishes and remonstranees
of Governor George Clinton, was speedily imt
tated by the Democratic New York Council Of AP
pointment, and which, upon Jeferson's accession
the Presidency, was strongly urged dPoa
i'm by Mexican himself.
The evil of this system, apparent on its frx
introduction, and making itself manifest even in 10
appointments CT such cool, sagaciOus, able msa
as Jefferson and Madison, has gone on from
ad TO worse till, under such miserable ncapables
Tyler, Fillmore and Pierce, and more especially
the latter, it has reached frightful state Of
exaggeration. Pierces appointments to Office were
chiefly made from among bar.room politicians.
Getting drunk may be set down as one Of tho most
he conferred office. Almost all the emoar-
easements in which Mr.. Buchanan finds himsed
involved had their origin in these miserable
appointments on the part of his predecessor
Pierce had not sent that blusterer So1le to Madrid,
Mr. Buchanan never would have been seduced into
the disgraceful folly, which we dare say be regrets
more than any act of his life, Of drafting and signing
the Ostend Manifesto. The utter disgrace and
dlstrust into which we have brought ourselves with
Central America and New Granada, and the diieu'
ty in which Mr.. Buchanan is placed Of extricauns
us with honor from that false position, .
mainly owing to the appointments Of such miserso"
diplomatic agents as Wheeler and Morse. mo
imbroglio IN which Buchanan finds himself ID kaF
sas obliged, as he thinks, by party necessIhe'' "
uphold as legal and Democratic one Of tho in0"
gross instances of invasion and attempted conqre"
which history records, may be directly traced "
Perce's removal Of Reeder from the Ones
Governor as soon as be found that no ""
an honest and able man, and bis apPo"r
ment TO the chief Offices Of that Tenn
tory Of Shannon, Woodson, Lecompte and Cav,
with whole batch of other officials to suit And
no doubt the grave position of affairs in Una'
when we are in danger Of civil war, and wna'1'
world will be very apt to regard and represents
; attempt at religious conversion BY hre 'aa
WORD. is less owing, We are inclined to suspect "
The deprayity Of the MorInOns than to the dePrSVv
and total wOrthlessness of the Federal ofhes'
whom Pierce sent among them. 1t is not "
wondered at that National Government, kn0..
My to large part Of the lDhabitsnts Of UpAr
Pierce Officials. should be held in certain des'"
Of contempt.
II might have been hoped that Dir. Buea''',
would have taken warning from these disasters
that in his own appointments to office nc "0I.
a little cautious to select--f 1t a0'O' =,
necessary TO have not merely DeDocra"
least men of certain degree o. esP'e"
and in their external behavior not wi~'"
show of regard for decency and appearance ~.
Kansas. howeyer-leaving, for the precen'
erpor Walker out Of account, who as yet IS Oa'~
has, if possible, outdooe - .,,
filing the principal Offices there not mercy
drunkards and DULLES, but with meu guilty u
robbery. and even murder Ifthis is the ~
which Mr.. Buchanan is TO go on-we po" 49,.
NJ frogs. pulped down by such Official eA'N
must soon begin to look upon Pierce as (by eoDT
i.on) sort Of model President and 10 'o's ,.s
DAYS Of King Log. when il was chiefly dr'nA'
and ipef6ciency. and not willful and deioei'| 4
'n;r.c, rou b, force and now under cover '