Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-01
POLICY OF THE PRESIDENT.

appointments, Is obviously one of rewards md NM
ishments. Of the many Individuals who have incur
red aipotion from Office incompetency or personal
uawoahness has in no case bccn alleged and of the
Numerous subordinate officers chosen to fill tho -
cancfes thus created, few none have Claims unon
the confidence and gratitude mud many of them no,
so much as claim upon the respect of the countrv
service and qualification have been EQUALLY disrerar
deh IN the persons removed, and in the persons an.
pointed 20 Punish those who had the indepe,,denre
TO dissent from the validity of his pctcnsions q, tho
Presidency seems to be the single consideration nv
which tire President and his advisers are influenced
IN making rernovals-and to reward the followers Of
MS personal fortunes the devoted tools of his orest
nesS anu the trumpeters Of SANDER against the late
administration, the exclusive motive in his selections
lhsn character, official competency, large and de-
pendent hriilies the confidence of Wash;no,oo Jor
'erson, Aladison and Monroe, revolutionary sexvcn
ise interpDsed no protection to them who dissntes
fronthe claims of Gen. Jackson upon the Pres;5on
cy-and onscurty and ignorance the faint of ,reaco
suspicious integrity, even notorious and infamous
crime, have not been permitted to stapd in tho
OF rewardins such redeemed their inSamv nv zoal
'o' TIC person and interest Of the President Shall
'i'e examples? Is 1t necessary to remind the rea-
uif Oh tne talented, amiabe and efficient Watkins
u'SPiaceu TO make room for the "ins+are" and per-
Jured kenda!l-the virtuous Cults, for Mr. Editor
Hhl-the son of the gallant Barney, for Dir. Editor
Cair-the venerable Glentwofth, the friend and fell
low soldier of Washington, for young militia Off
Ger, who never saw an enemy--another revolutionary
officer at Providence, for ar. Editor Danfortb-
the respectable and irreproachable Thomson n,
New York, for the Burrite, Swartwout, Phese OK
amples and fifty others, establish the position that
punishment on the one hand and reward on the 9TH
en-, constitute the principle upon which Gen. Jack
son ias made all his secondary and some of his pr
mary appointments. What but favoritism made
Maj. Eaton Secretary OF War; an appointment dis
gusting to Tennessee herself? What but the de-
sire to reward his selfish and mpudcnt personal serv
ces, procured for Maj Ler, tire 0onsuishp TO Al
glers--dn appointment insulting to the virtue of
the whole UnionP
We leave it to an Intelligent Public 10 saw, if
the principle thus clearly made out as the guide of
Grn. Jackson's policy is worthy Of the country
worthy of htur-fh is calculated to promote the bo
onr advance the prosperity, or protect the morals
OF the Government and people Of the q. States?
fhe few, the Gerry Je1O, who by possibility see no
wrong in any thing that President Jackson has done
or may do, affect to SEQ its prototype and its lus
cation, in the course pursued by Mr. Jefferson at his
first accession TO the Presidency He made pa rtial
removals it is true, but the circumstances under
which he acted were different, as were the char.
acters OF the men raised by him to office, compared
with the chsIacters of those raised to Office BY Geu
jackson. He was tho President of party Who in
great contest Of principle, had Just vanqushed their
advcrsarics, and the foes of the Constitution II was
right that he should dsplacc men dsafTectcd TO the
great and salutary principles, which the people had
RECENTLY vindicatc1: lie was right to bring in men
attached to those principles, and disposed Ia cDope-
rate in defending and sustaining them. But even
thus excused and warranted by principle and political
Justice, he did not carry prescription to any extreme
lie respected the grey haired soldier Of the Reyolu-
ton, whose arms had achieved the liberties OF his
country, and where he had removed foe, be ut least
did not supply the vacancy, with the convicted periu
rer, or the prdllgatc scducer under trust In vndi-
eating the nsdlted majesty of the Constitution and
bringing backthe Government to pristine simplicity
and republicarsn he did not morify tue revolution
airy patriot, advance the suspected traitor or Insult
the morols OF the country. But 1t is untrue TINT
there is the romotcst affinity between the civil revs
luton of 1901 and tho late triumph Of Gen. Jackson.
The most subtle hairsptter cannot trace inv further
resemblance between the Presidential CO n;est of 600
81 Aot Of 500, except that parties were Organized in
both cases. and except that those parties had LEADERS,
AS the struggle Of 800 was purely one ofpriuripte
so The struggle Of 1923, purely and exclusively
ono OF Per'ons AS Dir. Jefferson and the elder
Adams, differed entirely ia their respective construc
tions Of the legitimate powers and the safe aud true
policy Of the government, so Gen. Jackson and the
younger Adams, agreed essentially, and even parti-
cuIarly, in their respective interpretations OF tho
powers and policy of the government As the eide
Adams and Mr. Jefferson and their respective sup
porters, disagreed all the leading measures Of their
time 70 The Younger Adams ard Gen. Jackson have