Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1830-05-26


Holmcs,-"In one short month, this Ex-
ccutivc removed more than had been re-
moved for the whole forty years, and, in
one short year three times the number !!
The heads of Departments may be set
down as removals, for, considering the
example Of the last administration, they
would not have resigned, had they not
been assured that they should be remov-
ed; and the conduct of the Senate in
pOstponing nominations, was to them a
hint broad enough. We will set down
fire. The removals in the Departments
of principals and subordinates must be
charged to the account of the President,
for all this was done under his eye. These
were forty SIR. The nominations of Mr..
Adams, postponed to the 4th of March
last, and thus rejected, must be consider
ed as the act of the Senate, by the ad-
vice and at the request of the President
elect,t increase his patronage; and these
were Miriy-eight, making eighty-nine! A
pretty good beginning. Now, it has
been ascertaiued that the other removals,
up to this time, have amounted to not less
than one hundred and f6y! Making, of
removals by the President, and chiefly
in the recess, iicO hundred and Mirty-nine
an The first year, more than three times
the number removed by oil former Presi-
dents for forty years. But this is not all.
BY an official report from the Postmaster
General, we learn that he had at that
time removed four hundred and ninety
one of his deputies, and, as he had prob
ably not exaggerated, to say the least,
and as we know 'thc good work. is going
on, it is moderate to set these down at
fire hundred. 1t is within reasonable cal
culation to put the clerks and other de-
pendcnts on those Offices at five hundred
more. Add to these the subordinate Off
GERS of the customs removed as officially
reported-one hundred and Gtly-one. Add
to these deputy collectors and clerks in
the customs, dcputy-marshals, private
secretaries of foreig gn ministers, clerks in
land and in other Offices, surveyors and
others, and it is within bounds to calcu-
late SIR hundred more-making in the first
year, about TWO THOUSAND :! 2
Now, why all this individual distress'
Continues Mr.. Holiness what pur-
pose' Let us inqure-the people rant
light. Ifthere was good cause, they will
approre, but if not, they will condemn.
Why are you dumb' The reasons-we
ask the reasons. Speak. You are but
the servants of the people; and speak in
a language which they can understand,
and they will Judge youimpartially. Why
this dark silence3 1t was never so be-
fore. Has your President done what he
is ashamed of? Come out manfully, and
let him come out manfully, and tell us
the causes; and if they are good, the
people will be satisfied. But all this
seems to have been done in utter con-
tempt of the Senate. We were kept to-
gether from the 4th to the 18th of March,
an extra session, beyond all precedent.
The President proceeded with snail's
pace, and very little business was done.
But our backs were scarcely turned when
the fires of persecution were kindlcd and
have ever since ragged with relentless fiji
nv" Il n II Il 4 Il \
We cannot better express our senti-
ments with regard to this proscriptive pol
icy-this "rotat;on IN otice"-this Ore
torm''-than by adopting the language
of the Richmond Wing.
THAT men should be hunted out and
hunted down, for the free exercise of o.
pinion and choice, accords with the prac-
tice of despotisms, but initiates against
the first principles of Republicanism.
There are circumstances, however,
which add darker and more nefarious
shade to the history ofproscription. They
are the attempts made to cast suspicion
upon the private characters of all the re-
movcd-the obstinate refusal of all who
have it in their power, to explain the rea-
sons which have led to the removal. To-
the Postmaster General, to the Secretary
of State and ofthe Treasury, to the Pres
idcnt himself,pettionshave been address,
cd in vain, by many ofthc dismissed, for
the causes of their dismissal, that they
might have it in their power to satisfy
their friends that their fame was unsul-
lied. All such petitions have been eva
ded, or met by doggcd and obstinate si-
lence. Private injury was added to po-
litical intolerance, and the removed have
been compelled to sit down under impu-
tations, which power and its minions, in
extcnu;to of its injustice, saw fit to cast
upon them.
"This is tyranny of the most odious