Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-07-11
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system OF rewards and punishments is Piled with re-
newed vgor ut Washington and among the fresh
victims to the tyranny OF the President de 6aefo we
to have to record that of Andrew CoyIe chief clerk
IN the General Post Office. The National Intoii.
gencer says that no charge Of any description was
made against Mr.. Coylc, who has been long an eff.
cient officer in the Post Office; the motive Of his
removal being in the first place to "punsh" him and
IN the second, to Reward" advocate of tho Gene
raj. Doubtless however, some insi,uafion viii be
thrown out against the honour of Mr. Coyle, the
thunder not being truer to the fash than the efforts
OF the "official at Washington and his pensioned
allies to justify all removals by reflections upon the
integrity OF the removed. Reasons will be given.
say they, for ali the removals made This is the
delusive expectation held quiet the disconen,s
OF their own party; expectation which besides
that never will be- and never can be fulfilled adds
the cruelty of bringing unfortunate men under s,is
picon of dishonesty deliberate deceit towards the
public. Duff Green who first deals on, these dark
nsnuations, and his copysts who aspire to emulate
his infamous distinction by becoming the eager re-
tai'ers at second hand, of his SANDERS, know very
well that good reasons cannot be given for the re-
moval of hundreds who have been turned out of Office
unless revenging the preference of Mr. Adams To
Gen. Jackson, aad rewurdng the rapacious tools of
the latter DE good reasons" They deny that
have been renewed for "opinion sake"-they affirm
that the President has acted and is incapable of
netting, upon narrow and despotic maxim-.they
say that good reasons be given for all the remo-
walls. Why then do they give these rca sons at
once' Why are they held h'Petto7 What time is
so fit and proper for their disclosure as the moment
at which the removals are'madel Are not the people
entitled to n knowledge of the considerations which
produced public acts' Are not the removed indiyd
uas entitled to know the grounds of accusation and
removal against them' Is it not sufficient that they
have been turned adrift, and when REQUESTING as
many have done, TO be told the reasons of their
removal, been contemptuousy refused but must they
DO enforced 10 submit in silence to the Inputatons
upon their integrity, implied in the promise that
ut proper time "good reasons will be given"
and IN the declaration, that elf the people kneo the
people would find additional cause to love and adj
mlre General Jackson1" There never was a more
unfair, more peridious, a more cruel sort of on
preston That the assumption Of the ability of the
administration to give satisfactory reasons for
the numerous removals made by it--any reasons
indeed, but those to which we have auded--is
false Is manifest from the willing zeal with which
charges were made against Watkins and Peake, and
all others, against whom there was the scmblance
of guilt. Why were the charges published IN these
instances and suppressed in all Others iftherc were
any to maker Why has so much pains been taken
TO dlfuse suspicious against Nourse and Fillebrown,
by torturing and incorporating their official con-
duct into crime, and yet profound silence obser
we'd in the cases of other officers removed for whose
removal too, they pretend that good reason can be
given, Does any man believe that it would not al.
ford Duff Green and his copyists, especial pleasure
to publish these 'good reasons" if they had thenl
Have his moderation and forbearance or that of his
inaster been so conspicuous, that at liberty
to believe they would keep these good reasons
this evidence of the criminality of their enemies
PeTdu, if they possessed them' He must be weak
and contemplate dupe who can be made to believe,
any such absurd and improbable thing. There can
be no reasons of state to keep the evidence of the
crminalty Of the removed hidden, if it exist On
the contrary it is the duty of Gen. jackson TO the
peoPe-above all it ia his duty to the men removed
by him, TO lot them and the world know the causea
of their dismissal, that the former may have il in
their power, as the law allows to the meancst Grim
inal to meet their accusers and defend their hon,
our That this Course has not been taken-is The
best evidence in the world, looking Mt the early and
jealous publicity Of tho charges and specifications
against Watkins, that there were indeed no erea-
sons for removing except in very few cases, where
they were promptly disclosed that the prescription is
waged for the compound purpose Of "rewarding" and
furnishing" So indefensible is this system
pubhsnn moxims, odious is it to oil liberal men,
truly despoc is its nature that both Green and Ritch
ic have been driven to deny that men had been re-
moved for mere opinion sake. They cannot bat know
better. They cannot but know. that Clarke, Sade
Lee, Cuts, Chew, Wedderburno, Melville, Client
worth and hundreds OF others, removed with,
out the intirnatien protence Of official misconduct
On the 9Th March, IL was computed that there wore
nearly as many Jackson az Adams Office holders 70,
Mr. Adams not only removed none, but put mspy
Jackson men in office. Why have none Of them
been removed Did it so happen, that hnndreds on,
Of on equal number Of Adams men, we've guilty of
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