The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-01

THE NEW APPOINTMENTS Many of the late
appointments which have been made at Wash
ington have afforded just cause for dissatisfac-
ton and regret, which, we believe, has been
equally felt by the more liberal portion of Gen.
Jackson's friends in common with his oppo-
nents. The former have been most disappolnt-
ed, because, by many of the latter, whatever
they might have hoped, nothing better was ex-
pected. In relation to the election OF Duff
Green, as printer to Congress, the Georgia
Journal, leading Jackson paper, and the Off
cial paper of the State, says;
"The fate of the Intelligencer though a Sc
we're one would not be a subject of regret but
for black disgrace, that has been inflicted on
the character of Congress, by the selection of
It's rival What inducement is there now, we
would ask, seeing how the election of printer
went, for pursuing calm, temperate, decent,
and dignifed course of editorial conduct--one
regulated by principle, not by passion and pref
udice-when the lowest ribaldrv, the coarsest
vulgarity, and studied disregard of all the or
binary courtesies Of both public and private
life, have met with so high reward!
The Jackson party in Congress were strong
enough-they had talen: enough in their ranks
and at their disposal patronage enough to
command the services Of paper as the organ
of their feelings and principles that would at
least, not have spread moral contaglon over
the whole country. This they should have
done. They owed it to themselves---to the
large number of respectable editors who have
supported them--but especially did they owe it
to the nation"
The selection of the new cabinet has given
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from the same paper;
Modification and disgust nre manifest,
wherever there is Independence OF spirit enough
to show such feelings, at the majority Of the
appointments yet made by the new President
Some few Jackson papers, it is true, have ven
tured to speak we'll of the arrangement of the
Cabinet; but they have done it in such way,
after all their efforts to the contrary, as to show
clearly that conscience was, at the moment
upbraiding them for what they were doing
One paper, in the difficulty to find better
apology for the outrage that has been commit
ted on the feelings of the nation, stammers out
that it is a stronger Cabinet than the last one
Randolph, it is said, when he heard of the
arrangement. was on the point of packing up
and being off. He was restrained, as the tale
goes, only by the interposition of some valued
friends.
Two of the appointments will pass muster
we'll enough-that of Secretary of State, and
that of Attorney General. So far as talents
enter into the concern, they will do credit to
any administration. But Heaven help the men
who fill these two, when they have to rely on
such assistants as Samuel ID. lngham, John
Branch, and John H, Eaton. But more espec-
tally do they need the prayers Of the righteous
when such print as the Telegraph IS to be the
herald of their living actions. ingham -
Branch Eaton land Duff Green their chron-
icler The first celebrated for his connection
with the Edwards conspiracy, if fame errs not
the second, good man enough, but celebrated
only as having been, once upon time, Gov
ernor of North Carolina and afterwards Sen
ator in Congress, and in neither capacity rank
ing any thing above fifth or sixth rate-the
third, celebrated only, so far we know, for
the notoriety of his connexion with Stephen
Simpson of the Philadelphia Mercury, and with
Duff Green of the Telegraph, and of his crouch
ing subserviency to the views of Jackson him
self
I" The appointment of Eaton (says letter to
the editors of the Columbia Teescope) to the
Department of War, will be an outrage upon
the feelings of most of Gen. Jackson's friends
Upon the suggestion of that arrangement,
there was in this city an universal burst of dis
content"
Such Cabinet cannot, we think, carry the
administrator salely through the sloihls II VIII
have to encounter"
The appointment of William II. Ellis, as
Collector of New Haven, has also given great
~umbrage. The Connecticut Herald, the earli-
est Jackson paper in New England, says:
"An appointment more obnoxious to 19-20tls
of our citizens, of all political parties and class
in society, could hardly have been made.
We are not aware of any claims, either person
al or political, that could be presented in behalf
of Mr.. Ellis. About three years ago he was
appointed to the surprise of this whole com
munity,-by Mr.. Adams, to the Office of Sur
veyor of this port, as an 4domS-man, and now
he is elevated 20 the responsible Office of Col.
Hector as a JackSon-man."
"REFoRM" The Saco Palladium says that
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