Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-05-04
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GUS search of the public striking M
Senate on Tuesday last, iliust. ny the Adm
ncr the nature of the Reform ext son insti
istration, and the absurdity of the, ,asties
ted between the jefferson and Jack sun uyA ernm
From the 9TH March 1889, when Nc uos wi
went into operation, to the 4th Marcl. he
Gen. yacksen was nougurated, the who y" n".'i'
removals made by all the Presidents, amol Heo ~
Ofthese, with the exception of limited e1'cau'
ed by MIR. Jefferson in the first year of his ulihis
traton when the violence party spirit extort
crifces from him, against his judgment and Incl wa
ton, far the greater part, were for cause. 1t u
and must continue to be, reproach to Mr.. Jefferson
administration, that he permitted single victim to
fall for opinion sake; measure abhorrent to his ma
ture and that spirit of tolerance which distinguished
him in Religion and Politics. and which indeed, is of
the of civil liberty. Evidence is not wanting
TO show that he himself Ievolted from the severity,
that he teased and importuned into yielding in
few cases, and that he absolutely and Indignantly
rejected all propositions for general prescription.
city, and Mr. Grammer from that in Petersburg
excellent and uninpeacbed oficers-those cases con-
stitute exceptions and do not prove the rule.
Let us now look at the iron sway of the Second
Jefferson. The whole number of removals caused
by him since the 4th March 1929, is not actually
known, his partzans having voted down the motion to
obtain official information from the Departments. AS
however, Mr.. Barry states the number of removed
Postmasters alonc at 49t. as the number of Publish
ers removed by Mr.. Van Buren,, exceeds 80, and as
the removals from the Revenue and Land Depart
ments are known to have been yet more indiscrimi-
nate, Mr.. Holmes is doubt borne out in his state
ment, that President Jackson bad removed more in
cumbents in one month"; than all his predecessors had
removed during period Of farty gears.
This is bad enough. That men should be hunted
out and hunted down. for the free exercise of opinion
and choice, accords with the practice of dcspotsms
but initiates against the first principles of Republican
ISM There are circumstances, however, which ado
darker and more nefarious shade to the history o
prescription. They are the attempts made to cas-
suspicion upon the private characters of all the reno
ved-the obstinate refusal of all who have it in thei
power, to explain the which have led to thu
amotion. To the Postmaster General to the Secre
tary of State and of the Treasury, to the Presden
HIMSELF petitions have been addressed in vain, b
many of the dismissed, for the causes Of their dsnis
sal, that they might have it in their power TO sasf
their friends that their fame was unsuliied. All sue
petitions have been evaded, or met by logged an
obstinate silence. Private injury added to polt
cal intolerance, and the removed have been compel
ed to sit down under imputations which power an
its minons, in extenuaton of its injustice, saw fit
cast upon them.
This istyranny of the most odious and detestab
character. The body is not m,nured in dungeon
or loaded with shackles, but reputation is assassin
ted to excuse the excuses of power, and left IL
mercy of mcrcenary crew, who interested in sustain
ing the administration through all its depravity fir
their profit in SANDER, and their safety in deractio
itis impossible to imagine state of things mo
hateful or horrible. 1t is the necessary conscquen
proscription--whchfc feeling its own indefcnsibili
On principle, must have recourse to dernerit real
feigned, in its victims, for its own vindcation.
pAmoEg the most prominent of Gen. Jackson
suuporters and the most intoerant towards other
admitting none who oppose him to be Republican
aud cnorozsip,, 10 themselves from that merit. {