Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-03-30
his course against the free schools and the

judiciary.
So long, however, as Mr.. Fenner
kept himself from an actual and avowed
coalition with the Jackson Party, we were
content not to nomisate candidate a
gainst him. But as he has now openly
entered into such acoalition, we should
feel that we were betraying the vital in
terests, and prostrating the honor and the
prosperity of this State to give him any
further support. Nor can we think that
any individual, however highly he may
rate his own control over the minds and
destinies Of his fellow citizens, or howev-
er fondly he may calculate on hereditary
titles to their support, ought to rely on the
weight ofhis dice and personal advan-
tages to sway whole people from their
true interests, and expect them to act in
his particular favor, and to promote his
private T family interest at the sncri-
flee Of their own well known and indc-
pendent opini'ns, and at the peril oftheir
own and their children's prosperity. In
a Republic, N man should be encoura-
ged 10 think hat he is too strong for the
PEOPLE.
Many Of car friends were dissatisfied
with the nomination of Mr.. Fenner last
year by the National Republican Con-
vention. They felt assured, notwith-
standing the professions Of his friends,
that he was hen at heart attached to the
Jackson patty, and they set up candi-
date againsh him, though he was nomina.
ted by bot Conventions. The large
number ofvotes cast against him, not.
withstandin, the support of those Con.
ventions, pOved how unacceptable his
course was rendering him.
And wha is the party to which he ha.
now attached himself?-What is there
in its acts which invites OUR adhesion o
calls for the appreciation and support Of
Governor of Rhode Island look t.
the "Men AMI measures Of Gen Jack
sons Adminisuation''--the grounds or
which Mr. Fenner is nominated by the
Jackson Convention.
Those measures" arc developing
themselves to be, not only deleterlous tc
the Union, dangerous to our best and
wisst Institutions, and prodigal Of the
peoples money for unworthy purposes
but alarming even to such leading mem
bes of the party itself as retain too mucl
sell respect to lend themselves longer tt
its determined violations Of public prin
ciIe. 1t is not our object now to dis
cws or particularise those measures
but we will notice few which 60 far t.
authorize the beliefthat the Governmcn
itself is considered by those who WELD j
as an instrument of personal ambition
and tn, Nations Treasury as fund fo
electinesring. BY sweeping and vim
dictiv, prescription unexampled in thi
or an. modern country, it has beer
shewr that nearly two thousand persons
were thrown out of employ in less thar
one year, charged with no fault but tha
ofha aung exercised the elective franchise
ac cording to their consciences. Th'
consequences have been such as nigh
have Ieen expected. Take for instance
the Post Office Department, in whlc|
the create st number ofremovals has bee
made. 1t was left by the former admin
istration an admirably managed an
fourishing department, satisfactorily nc
commodatins the wants of the public
and producing an important annual rev
lenue over and above all Its expenses
In these new hands it has become insol
rent, requiring immense sums from tn
treasury to meet its excessive expenses
while at the same time the mails are s
irregularly managed that complaints ar
continually arising from all parts of tn
country. The system of rewards is q
Unparalleled as that Of punishment
The Press, the fountain Of public info
nation, is in effect subsidized by party
from the treasury Of the people. Publ
officers Of trust and emolumcnt are di'
posed to partzan editors, for service
rendered to indivi dual candidates for pr'
notion. Appropriations upon apPropr'i
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