Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-05-12

in his course, with scarce moments warning, and
cooliy told, without condecending to assign reason
tor the act that the overnent has further need
OF his seryiccs-and ask yourself there is nothing
in his case which makes appeal to your Justice as
well as to the finer feelings of your nature.-f have
that mantle was my friend-I Witnessed the /,
tear startling in his eye-I went with him to his home
and heard him. in the bitterness of indignant anguish
'naade beggdrS!"
1t was your act-yes Sir, it was pour act,
But there Is no need am sire, to spend moment
upon the improperly of applying the principle OF ro
tation to the cases in question The hypocrisy, (I
would not use the word, if believed you capable of
attempting to justify the removals upon such ground)
the hyPocrisy say, of this plea is altogether appa
rent when it is perceived that the removals without
exception thus far in this city, and is believed
with scarce err exception any where hare been CONF
ned, exclusively, to tl friends Of the tate .ldnaisra.
ton.
The principle of rotation, to whatever cases it may
be applicable, being thus manifesly inappiicabe to
my case, well as to most of those in which the
power of removal has been exercised, there would
seem to remain but other ground of the sduty
which you have deemed yourself called upon to per
FORM tits, that have been frank and decided
friend OF the late administration and as frankly and
decidedly opposed to the election of Gen. Juckson
and that my removal Inns therefore been required by
him at your hands. Who has required it of him
who has 'instgated" him thus to sspunish" me for
honestly preferrng his lustrious competitor to him
self, and AS honestly deprecating his election as
"curse to the country" you win, think, be at no
loss to determine when you consider what will
state.
| In the United States Telegraph of the Sd Of No
venber last, you will find the following language:
I'VE know not what line Of policy Gen. jackson
I'wlii adopt. We take 1T for granted however that
she ,oW REGARD has friends and punish his enemies
i You will remember, doubt not, the burs, of inig-
nation which this declaration of the Impudent Dicta
tor produced through the country, and from many,
too OF the friends of Gen. Jackson, who considered
HIM foully slandcred by thus imputng to him Will
lngness to be influenced in his official conduct by vim
dlctve passions, and to the President of
ty, and not of the nation. In reply to lust animnd
version upon its audacity. the Telegraph rises in it's
tone of mpudence. and after declaring that it expec
, ted Gen. jackson to "punsh Messrs. CLAW Rush
Southard, Porter, Writ" and others closes by say
ing" We expect him to punish C. J. Nourse Stade
Fendau, T. L. NJ kenney Handy, and host of other
subordinate clerks, by appointing their superors
honorable men, who will discharge their duty to him
.'and the public, by their immediate removal" And
lest this impudent menace should fail of its execution
upon the subordinate hbeers its author takes ca
directly to remind you of it in his paper of the 10Th OF
niarcn, IN the following pregnant language: 'sThe
president does not appoint the clerksor subordinate
otcers in any of the Departments. But if any chief
of any Department appoints to office unfathfu or
unworthy clerk. and refuses to remove him. upou the
Susestion Of the President the President is vested nv
the law, with power to remove the head and Mace
some person ,oho mill enforce his piers b,, ,eno,o
q she obnorious su6ordinate'
Can l. after this, remain in doubt as to the grounds
or the author of removal or the process bv which
1t has been effected Can l, to be plain repard Won
III any other light than the executioner of the vim
dictve purpose of Gen. Jackson excited and directed
to Its object by the ortful malice of this modern Ro-
bespierre?
regret exceedingly sir to be obliged to say that
consider this as just and true exposition of the
'dnty' which has mpelled you to sacrifice a public
nothing to alledge ~
: Leaving the examination of the "duty" which vou
nave thought proper to make the ground of nv re-
loval' ana to which you would attach graver i'm
nfInrrn
VIII, II you please, dwell a few moments on the cha
racter and consequences of the system of prescription
under which have been doomed to suffer
mo enc, 1t seems to me. seriously contemplate
ms SUBJECT for moment, without deep and painf1I
convection oil the violence done to the constitution in
INC rSs acts OF this Administration. need not point
OUT TO you how directly and daringly the right of
'Jfeedom Of speech and Of the p7ess' is sssn;ied Inv
subecting to censorship every word TINT NAV he MT
terod oy public officer, and visiting upon him the
/ PANS and penalties of prescription co,not tell
ye,ai;o woua now strongly my spirit revolts at this
usu'pa'os OF power. Whether in or out of Office I
can never cease to regard myself as invested with IN
eie Iighs OF n freeman, For the discharge of INV of
cai outles am responsible indeed 10 the power that
myself accountable only to God and the laws of nv
country AND sir, the man, sohoeuer he NAV he ,vIo
attempts IN any manner to restrain or confront this
privilege IS 1y'ant. 1t is privilege which
render but with my life. '
Ion nave heard, sir, of the "rap law IF 100. |
, ana IL am not mistaken, you have had some know,
OF the visitation of its odium, during the last
io'T OF I'VE years, upon innocent descendant of
It's fePutea author But. unjust as it was it's sever
ISL operation was mercy compared with the star
chamber system Of which am made victim. That
NV, uehed the on lance which undertook to punish
wy offence is underlined and undefinabIe That law
required the proof aeood and malice in order to
convection. Under this system truth and s;nce,tv
turnsh no projections. That gave the accused the
I pubic trial. ogreeaby to the known and
established usages of law. Under this, am tried
without hearing, and doomed to n sentence of No
common severity without the privilege allowed the
common m9efactor, of saying why it should not be
pronounced against me! ''0' NC
ana may ask you, sir, what crime have cororni,
Yea that should be thus 'pulished2" is it a crime
70 nave yielded Cordial and honest and even zcal.
Gus support TO wise and patriotic Administration,
t t5: II CRIME to have withholden the homage of
onnd and infatuated devotion from Gen IacLsoua !