Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-18

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on what principle his Rasements can be
called tsdeyalit is difficult to determine,
unlefs it is beoaule they bear the mark Of
truth, on that ground they certainly de-
iervc the title. Upon the fame principle
Jones has called Calender federalif, be-
caule he dared to point out few incou-
fii}encies of the preient adminiltration.-
But Mr.. Jones has the wrong fow by the
ear this time; Calender knows too much
CT him to be trodden upon.
A friend in need is friend indeed Mr..
Jones ; why DO you DOT therefore, call up
on your old friend the Ap0lloniau 14uyora,
to lend yoa few of his e9ulgerf rps in
this time of darkness snd diitreis Per-
haps Calender knows too much of this
/pleudia iumma,y likewlfe: Or do you
think that this precurfor Of eternal day.
las certain toaamaeers have fyled it, is
nothing more than a jack o'lanthern,
which lerves but TO lead the thoughtlefs
and unwary into the bogs of Ignorance,
and then leave them as monuments of
fupidity and folly.
The following obiervations Of this felf-
created Cegfor, may ierve to thew his abi.
lities for the Office, with which he has in
ve&ed himlelf, and the Eaithfulneis with
which he discharges its duties:
During the laf FELTON,, the preGdent,
in order to demonarate the magnitude Of
executive patronage. and TO guard againit
its polEble abnfe, preiented to congrefs
document, containing view of allth
exiting offices, with the emoluments at
tached to each.
In the civil department there appear \
with the exception of all the pof -malers,
and hof of inferior officers, TO be 1904.
Of this number, in period of fifteen
months,
80 have been removed on a variety
Of grounds above fpecifed.
RI new appointments have been made to
Offices attempted TO be filled by Mr.. A.
dams, after he loft the confidence of the
nation.
s. making altogether
The above obfsrvaticns were intended
TO alarm the people with the danger of
executive patronage, to excite diifrue III
the general government, and to impress |
the people with belief, that the number
of officers difmitled, is very finall in COM
PARTON with thoie remaining being leis,
by hoit OF inferior officers, than I-37th
of the whole. Let US now fee with what
bare faced efrontery, the people are at
tempted 10 be deceived, and that too, by !
perfons, who are in the very act of con- |
demning others for INTERPRETATIONS, and |
under the protection of giving correct infor-
nation themteives, of correcting and ex-
poGng the INTAKES of their opponents.
Upon careful examination of the do
cumear referred 10 in the above extract, |
ind thar there are but Az officers in the
whole civil department., who are appoint
ed by, and fubjea to, the removal Of the
PRECEDENT. By officers in the civil de-
partment, | mean, all thof. who are not
in the army or navy, including the pof.
matters and that hof of inferior officers
which the writer Of the above alluded to,
profeles to exclude, in his enumeration of
a,o44, This will reduce the proportion
from 18th to lefs than 18th, but this
proportion may be reduced mach more,
by examining the fubjett more particu-
larly.
I. Out Of the Az, there are fome who
hold two Offices, which could not be &C.
eurately afcertained without much labor.
:. There were many of tbs fame poll |
teal fentiments with Mr.. Jefferfon when |
he came into Office.
8. There were many Offices vacant
which he had anopportunity ofhlliDg with |
his own leR.
4. There were fome few appointments |
to Office which had never before been filled !
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