The Whig Standard

MUTTERINGS OF EXECUTIVE THUNDER.
THREATS OF EXECUTIVE VENGEANCE.

The Madisonian of Monday, in an article headed "to the friends of Texas," holds the following significant language, which we suppose it uses "by authority."

Mr. Blair says that "Mr. Van Buren's friends have been considered out of the question—the offices being given to every shade of Democracy but his friends; they now have the door opened to them, and are indeed preferred." Now, we say, without the fear of contradiction, that the majority, and large majority, of the offices of the country are now, and always have been, in the hands of Mr. Van Buren's and Mr. Clay's friends. This article is written by Blair, with the knowledge of the fact under his very nose, that enemies to the President are at the head of almost every Bureau in Washington; that out of six hundred clerks in the Departments, not more than fifty real Tyler men are to be found; that almost every important office in the great State of New York is in the hands of a friend of these anti-Texas gentleman—how long to remain so, we shall sooner or later see—and that Baltimore always has had, and still has, more than her full quota, and so with every other State in the Union. "Mr. Tyler has resisted all efforts to make removals upon mere personal grounds. A new state of things has now arisen. A question is before the country, on which the Executive Department, for the country, should stand as a unit. We know not the President's views concerning it, but we shall feel surprise if he shall permit the chief offices of the country to be filled by men who are associated with Abolitionists on this and the other side of the water, to foil and defeat the great question of the age."