The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1829-06-18

rlty and Independence entItle him TO any
situation you thought proper to confer on
him. Permit me respectfully to solicit you
to compare the course you have been lead
to pursue, with that Of this distinguished ID
friend of yours; compare il with the senti.
ments in your letter 10 President Monroe,
compare il with the manly and magnsni,
nous traits Of character, which you have
exhibited in many Of the public situations
in which Won have heretofore been placed
and say whether the contrast does not sur
prize even yourself. Ever since your ar
rival at the seat Of government, you have
been harrassed with applications for Office
you have been surrounded and besieged
in your own palace, by persons Of every
description claiming the reward Of their
services in your late election--you have
displaced men who had served the country
with fidelity for years, who mover wTonged
you, or the country in thought, word or
deed, not to provide for your Iuest and best
friends, but to make room for persons who
became the advocates OF your election sole
ly with an eye to their own preferment
You have selected as the peculiar objects
Of your patronage and bounty, scribhlers
in newspapers and editors most abusive of
your antagonists, without seeming to be
ware that you are rewarding in one set Of
men precisely the conduct which you pro
fess to disopprove in another.
1t would not be difficult TO make a much
larger list Of the foults and inconsste encies
of your administration, but this is sufficient
for my purpose. Although we h.ve in this
government no such maxims as THAT the
King can do no wrong" | do not lay all
this b your charge, think that your min
listers deserve much the greater share OF
blame. Whatever may be your sentiments
on the subject, they have established sys.
tenn Of rewards for their friends whom they
dignity with the name Of your friends.
They too expect their advantage. You
can have no interest IN keeping alive the
distinction between the party who were
opposed to you and those who put you into
power The whole nation are your party,
and WI be with you, if you pursue your
own lrse. These ministers Of yours
think ey have an interest in dlscipIinng
and ing together the force which your
pops has raised, for their own pur-
poss EN- you shall no longer have use
ior strongly suspect that this game
Is p at your expense for the benefit Of
me sir to enquire of you whether
80 reflected seriously on the mis-
ch which you have exposed your
ca " the course you have permitted
I'd Eters TO pursue, in relation to the
p cs through the country. Have
" yht, with other great and good
the discord and turmoil attend
canvass for so important an of
OF the Chef Magistrate Of this
Ountty, was one of the evils ne.
ttendant on republican form Of
i. lfso have you not rather de-
Dninsh than increase this evil.
time that it has been under.
,e course pursued 6y your ad
b, that removals from Office
ade on account of the particu-
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16f the applicants, this whole
been kept in o state of un.
fermentation by a sort Of Sc
bneering for at least half the Of.
gift Of the President; and vol
+ been written in the shape Of
memorials, 10 show the demerit
b, and the extraordinary servic es
lfcutons of another; and all this
inspection and direction Of one
ehout the knowledge Of the other.
this, committees have posted 10
yton TO enforce the claims Of can.
o. whether because they could not
q not reduce TO writing what they
hi pay, or because great reliance was
p [on the personal influence of the
CT ZEE, am unable to soy. Your tu.
dN chumber has been thronged with
aI nts end their friends, and you have
bS bmpelled to listen to rec,als of what
so |fficer of the government in the heat
Of voss has ssid ofyou or OF some friend
of RS. Had you sir, at the time OF your
nor Iation, any conception OF this part oi
the( mites Of the Office to which you asplr
ed?y IN sure you had not. II you haO
been aware Of such duties and others
which your memory can easily recall,
would you have accepted the appointment!
believe you would not. Permit me then
TO say 10 you that all this is the result OF
your own fault and that of your ministers.
Your fault has been in not pursuing the
dictates Of your own good sense and mag
nanimiiy; and theirs in permitting II to be
understood through the country, that the
administration is disposed TO reward its
adherants, and punish those they please to
call The enemies ofheir country.
] have said much more than intended
when commenced, but cannot leave the
subject without making q few remarks
which are applicable to New England a.
lone. You knew up 10 the day on which
the electors met. that your friends in New
England we're few. II have not been
mistaken in my conception Of the charac-
ter OF GENERAL JACKSON, you were Meth
CT surprised at or disapproved of this trait
in the New England character. Ii was TO
be expected that the people of,hese states
bound together as they are in habits