"Truly Y'rs,
"J. Van Buren."
"P. S.—If the President gives us a fair man for Collector, and the Navy only, he might put in some Hunker for Marshal, P.-O., Apprsr., Surveyor, etc., leaving room for Dix's mission."
W. L. MARCY TO S. J. TILDEN
"Private and confidl.
"Wash., 4 Apl., '53.
"Dear Sir,—The appraisers have been up, but I have got the appts. put off for a few days. Let me know who (you think) ought to be app'd.
"Dickinson is to be here to-morrow—and it is expected by his friends that he will interfere and have a potential voice in N. Y. appts. What of Thompson for Appr. at Large? Redfield has telegraphed me that he shall accept and come on here. See him if you can, as he passes thro' N. Y.
"Yours truly,
"W. L. Marcy."
"S. J. Tilden, Esq.
"P. S.—Pomeroy is nominated as Appraiser at Large."
The accession of Pierce to the Presidency was soon followed by the retirement of F. P. Blair, who had edited the Globe, a semi-official press since the inauguration of President Jackson, and by the establishment of the Union as the new administration organ, under the editorship of Mr. Ritchie, the proprietor of the leading Democratic print in Virginia. This was the first unmistakable evidence of the deliberatively proscriptive policy of the new Cabinet.