Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-08-11


people and public men. and it is only when Henry
Clay speaks, that tho voice of ccnsure is raised or
the bastard wit of Walsh employed to ridiculcit.
To the case of MIR. Hawkins. late Postmaster at
Frankfort we claim the attention of the reader /,
is another proof of the vice or weakness of Post
Master Barry's character, who coming to Washing
ton win hne professions of bcrality his lips. has
sold his principles power, aud consented to play
second hdde TO Duff Green and the Central Com
mttee. 1t is another example of that hcllsh Practice
OF jnstying removals, by attempting to destroy the
character of the removed. 1t is another example of
the tyrannical conduct of this dctcstable Admnstra-
ton, IN refusing officers whom they intend to pro-
SCRIBE copies Of charges aganst them, by which
they are deprived OF every free right of know.
ing OF what he is accused, and defending himself
against h-and when such officers apply to them for
such ntormution, Of disdaining to make the least
reply. Can any just Jackson man approve of this
conduct Can any party spiri, dry up the springs
OF Repubicanisi aud natural justice in the heart as
TO persuade any that it is right 10 destroy snoth
ers reputation, because some excuse is wanted to
remove him from Office, to refuse him the sight OF
charges made against him by private enemies to act
as II these charges were proved, when the party
accused, has not seen heard them, and contemp.
tuously to withhold all reply respectful applica-
tons for the of rcmoval' Such has been the
course towards MIR. Hawkins, Mr.. Coylc. Mr.. Sladc.
Mr. Lee and many others If this is not rank. I'M
sophisticated, tyranny, then we know not what tv-
rahny U.s. Party men feel natural reluctance to
'hu iarit With their party leaders. The con,es, has
warmed their feelings 10 them, anu to Omit that the
leaders do wrong; seems imply that the followers
had been mistaken. Bat ;herc IS :. poin, q: which
rms natural feeling ought To When The rights
"' persons are sacrificed by power, and the spirit o
justice and equality in which our institutions were
conceived. oversicpped, men who love the country
more han'her party ought to join in making stand
against tyranny Is not that point already attained
by the administration? That the President is vested
with the absolute power of removal is not denied
But was given him 10 be exercised without cause
without discretion, without the requistion of public
necessity or public good; Was il given him as the
instrument OF Furnishing his enemies and rewar,ncr
his friends Or was it given him as shield to protect
The public interests. To be used with, sound discretion
and only when positive or negative maifeasancc re-
q'iired its interposton' Madison, Page Baldwin,
Inc best and sSundest Republicans, contemporary with
the constitution, some of them assistant at its forma
ton, thus viewed the power, and declared that the
peachment. Shall confde in James Madison.
in Gov Page, in Abraham Baldwin, or shall we con-
fde in Duif Green and Amos Kendale What can
be more tyrunnical, more odious than the removal
Vi men who have devoted themselves to an undor
standing of the duties of their Office who i'm donu
this have disqualified themselves for other pursuits,
their remova! without fault or the mputation of
fault? On the other hand, what is more unjust what
more Satanic, than to throw blemish OH the cha
racters OF the removed, that power may stand us,i-
lied, or the refusal to let them know who their nc
cuser is. or what the accusations Was the Lions
mouth at Venice, or the forms of secret trial and
condemnation more Ubiquitous and despotic than this?
People try to evade the force of these things Inv
persuading themselves that they are no. true. They
10 not wish TO believe and therefore will not believe
But the time was, when the suspicion that such ~
amy was exercised, would have raised flame.
Are the people really indifferent 10 the iniouitous
leeds done at Washington, they reservInp the
expression Of their Indignation for filter season?
As to not betiering, that is impossible. They NAV be
sorry to believe, they may withhold the ACKNOWLEDGE
nent of their belief, but they Jelere. VIII the
ocop'e Of Virginia, who masse against the
he Alien and Sedion Laws, and hurled their author
rom power-will they who construed so severely.
every equiyocal and many harmless act of that au-
hor's Soa-will they sanction in southern Pre-
'dent, deeds more despotic, more anti-rcpublican.
more dangerous TO liberty, than the united acts of
he elder and younger Adnms' VIII they Jet it he
aid that their opposition to the man and not to
he measure-that it was prejudice and not principle,
hat removed the father and son from power? Or
because they contributed to elect Gen. Jackson viii
hey on that account, look c0rpacen,y on, while
with savage ferocty he trampIes justce generosity
md the constitution under his fees
1t is necessary to explain the occasion of Mr. Haw.
sins Appeal to the Public. When Amos Kendall
was appointed Fourth Auditor, lac procured as a sub
'titute TO conduct his paper, the Argus Mr. Lewis
Sanders, jr. lawyer at Frankfort. This Mr.. San
leTs, who it seems, prefessed friend of Mr..
Hawkins, among the first Of his official acts, publish
cd statement transmitted from Washington, and as
is now known. nv Anna Eondnll nccue;n, fbot oo,,