Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-12-31


The only original part of this Message ap-
pears to be that beautiful capital with which
: he surmounts this Corinthian pillar OF his pc
htical ameI mean the claim o. Mrs Deca-
B tpr--which has no more business IN State
Paper, like this, than he has with recommen-
dations to tinker the Constitution. 1t only
serves to prove that he is determined to dab
bic IN every thing, and, il Congress win per
init him, to legislate on, as well as execute all
subjects, whether Of public or private ma
ture. do not wish to insinuate that there is
any particular personal peachnst in. this re-
commentator, but do say, that it is both
novel and extraordinary that he should SO
far 'travel out of the record as to present
this special claim to the consideration of the
legislature of the People. The claim is one
which las been frequently before Congress
already, and does not need his particular re-
commentator in general Message like this,
or indeed in any other; because it is obvious
Nv indicate for any Executive of this coun-
try to interfere in the private concerns or
claims of individuals. His flourish about
fpublic gratitude stamping heT seal upon it."
md the mead, which, like the "misyOr," is to
operate as a stimulus, Sc, suffer to pass as
1uite too splendid for ordinary readers. But
bis indicate illusions to the late Admins
tration, and his lame and wretched apology
Ter fha I'M md Ifv nf,. ta haa
been guilty, in the removals he has made, de-
serve some animadversion.
50 The absardity of the periodical ro-
tatlon which he recommends, is so fully ex-
posed in the pithy remonstrance of the Bos-
ton Merchants, as to render any remarks
from me on the subject unnecessary. There
rs one assertion, however, in this part of the
& Message, which, as it is untrue, deserves at
tentlon.-"He who is removed" saws this
N profound statesman, "has the means of OBJ
q tanning living that are enioyed by the mil
Mons who never held office" What are tn.
Il means which he has who has grown gray IN
d the servIcc-who has perhaps spent his youth -,
manhood. and old age, in an official station
and who knows the duties of his office, and
nothing else? If he had once profession, it
has been so long abandoned as to render re-
course to it useless; if he was once in business
1t has been lost, and he cannot again recur
to It In short, he is often wholly disqualifi-
ed Tor almost any occupation which would
afford him the mears of obtaining living
sand is thrown upon the world beggared and
i helpless" The idea, too, that the ''dutes of
all public offices are so plain and simple, that
men OF intelligence may readily qualify them
selves for their performance" is as absurd as
1t Is untrue The duty of removing men
from office, may possibly have been found by
PRESIDENT jackson very easy one, and suit
cd 10 ms peculiar temper and powers of mind;
but he will find it not quite SO easy n task to
discharge the legitimate duties which belong
to the Executive Magistracy of the nation
ignorant and inexperienced as he is, and al.
ways must be, in the arena Of government.
IL might not be even ludicrouse to Gen. Jack
son. to receive Az application from a coun-
Try clown, respectable for bis intelligence, for
the situation of Judge Marshall, or that O,
the Attorney General, and yet one might
"read'ty qualify himself for the performance"
OF those important stations General Jackson.
has yet to learn, though he has had the folly
TO attempt to examine the books of some of
the Treasury officers, that even clerkshp
requires some education and experience, and
thatit demands longer apprenticeship than
ne supposes, to render man perfectly au fat
IN his official duties. The manner in which
he touches on this subject, is an evidence that
something has been suppressed by another
hand, and that it has been subjected to the
revision OF more expert counsellor.
In conclusion, must say, that consider
Congress under a moral obligation to demand
the causes which have led to the removal Of
so many useful, efficient and naefitorous men
It IS TO Congress that the prosecuted portion
OF the people of this country now look up fol
protection and justice, and from whom ine,
expect more marked and striking demon
stration than they have recently furnished
of their disapprobation of a sy.tem conceiv
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