The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-22
An Office Beggnr.

the Chicago Republican, formerly of
the New York Tribune, wrote the fol-
lowing begging letter to President
Johnson, to secure his appointment
to the New York Collectorship. A
more cringing document is scarcely
on record in the political world, and
is the best evidence of the unitness
of the man for the Office he sought:
CHICAGO, January 20.
DEAR SIR: Some of my friends in
the New York delegation in Congress
want me to be Collector Of New York.
I shall be glad to have that office, and
accordingly address myself directly
to you. I have been resident of
New York city for nearly twenty
years, till few months since, when I
came here on leaving the War.De-
partment. I know New York, it's
merchants, and it's politicians, but by
reason of my connection with the
War Department, have been absent,
so as to be free from all Identification
with the political factions or personal
controversies by which the Union
party there had been much divided.
1 believe that there is no person of
any prominence in the party whose
appointment would give greater gene
raj satisfaction than mine. Should
you be disposed so far to entertain
the idea as to wish for information
concerning my capacity to administer
the office, there is no one who can
judge better as to that than Mr..
Stanton.
Let me add, that I am myself con-
fdent of performing the duties,
should they be entrusted to me, to
the advantage OF the public service,
and to your entire satisfaction.
[ am, with profound respect, your
faithful servant,
(Signed,) CHARLES A. DANA.
TO his Excelency the President. -
Now, after reading the above, hear
what the Republican said the other
day:
''The- sche1Ae to buy up the present
managers of the Republican, by Co
yernment collectorships, is very
smart, but it won't win.,'
Comment upon this is unnecessary
At the time he wrote the above
letter, he was loud in his praise of
President Johnson and his, but when
he discovered that the President
turned a deaf ear to his importantly,
he Immediately turned round, and his
paper, it is stated, has since been
daily filed with malignant abuse of
the President. Such is the course of
the men who disturb the peace of the
country, and would keep it disunited
for thirty years to come.
Fortunately, we have man at the
helm who let's these vile aspersions
pass by him as the idle wind, and
can afford to laugh to scorn all the
malignant abuse the patriotic (?) radi-
cals-these unse5fsh politicans-can
pour out through the papers they
have prostituted to their base pur-
poses. He stands firm in his adhe-
sion to the best interests of the coun-
try, and will not be swayed from his
purpose by the adulations of false
friends or the abu.e cf his political
enemies.
In relation to this particular Office,
the latest Washington dispatches
state that the President, in a CONVEX
sation with an ex-member of Con-
gress, said that the new Collector of
New York must not only be thoroughly
qualified in business point of view
for the Office, but he must be'unquali-
fiedly committed to the policy of re.
storation, and able and willing to carry
out his views so far as his influence to
that effect extended. The President,
should he fill all his Offices with men
possessing such qualifications rs he
indicates above, will have trustworthy
officers.
AN IMPORTANT MovEIENT.-The
well-informed Washington correspon-
dent of the Baltimore Sun says that
the conservative Republican move