The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-09
WHOLE NO. 1923.

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aren't 10 insanity and would ruin the most prosper
Gus OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ravelv .rrnnncad IS ~
aoAno"Iedgeo truth To fill the vacancies made
W theSe removals individuals were selected al
niost aFo"ediy from no other considerations than
muse oil party and IN several instances with so lit
VIC that tneir appointments were almost
unanimously negatived by the Senate. ALTHOUGH
the PRESIDENT had himself previously sirnalized
'ho appointment OF members of Congress to Office
as great abuse, they were now appointed in GREAT
81 proportion than they had ever been before AL
AIough ne had lnVelghed with warmth against the
supposed corruption of the public oress. partizan
editors were among the most favored classes az
canddates In short, the first year of the present
administration offered little else than an eager and
tumultuous scramble for place. The Offices that
were instituted Tor the public service, and ought
W pe cehleIIeq with view to other object
were apparently and even avowedly treated as
prizes 10 De wol and lost in the rane of NAVY -
What have we been fighting for-was the Ian.
guage-h the eonquerors are not to divide the
spoil? N'u0 Inc
All this was the more painful because the peonIa
had had some reason to expect from General Jack
son different and better course In letter writ-
ten several years before his election to Mr.. Mon
roe, he bad eounselled that venerable patriot to
crush the monster party, and to select his cabinet
and make his appointments with single view To
the moral and intellectual qualifications of the in
dividuals. TWAS hardly to be expected after such
a declaration and at time when party had in con-
sequence or the liberal and judicious system of
Mr. Monroe and mis- successor almost ceased to ex-
ist-the General shoud hmselfhave been the first
to give it new activity and make it the main spring
of his policy.
Such were the auspices under which the present
administration began its course. rapid survey of
the subsequent progress of affairs under the two
eaolng divisions ofJOreign and domestic will show
that It has correspondent but too we'll with what
might have been expected from such beginning.
In the conduct of he off, 81, l.
been an appearance of success-in consequence of
the TACT That several arrangements with foreign
powers which had been matured and in some in
stances completed under the preceding adminis-
.rat ION, nave been made public, under this. Such
has been the case with the treaties with Brazil.
with Denmark, and with Turkey. In announcing
Lhe conclusion OF these arrangements, the Presi-
dent has uniformly RETAINED from giving credit to
MS predecessor for the share he had had in bring
ing them to close, and on this and other occa-
sons has attectedly avoided to mention his name
proceeding, which in him, towards the man who
saved him from Court Martial after his exploits
IN the seminole war, argues something worse than
want of courtesy. The treaty with Great Britain
IS the only one yet known to the public of which
he administration are entitled to the credit and of
this credit it is believed that no one will attemnt
TO deprive them. For the purpose of obtaining this
treaty they descended to the incredible meanness
OF denouncing their predecessors to the British
Government and the last consented to accept as a
compensation TO such concessions arrangement
when places our navigation and commerce in 4
worse condition than that in which they were he
fore.
AS respects the domestic affairs of the eeuntry
there was bat little Innovation during the first YEAR
and Judiclous men began to hope that when the
lust for Office had been gratied to the greatest pos
Sioie extent, the new incumhents would be led by
regard for their own interest to manage matters
as wsIl as they could, and that all would 90 on
pretty much as before. This expectation has been
completely disappointed. Within the last year a
new spirit of deluson and destruction has been de-
veloping itself under the patronage or connivaHce
OF the administration, and has now acquired such a
oegree OF vlgor as to threaten most seriously tie
permanence OF our political institutions and the
integrity of the Union. This spirit has manifested
ltself IN several quarters and under various FORMS
he great effort of those who are animated with il
seems to be to deprive the Federal Government of
the powers which attributed to it by the Con.
sutoton: In one quarter we have seen them claim.
ing Tor the States right to interfere at discretion
an annul the acts of Congress. In another we
nave seen them actually exercising this pretended
right, and aAnulling whole series of solemn trea
hes: In Congress we have them aiming ia
La blow at the Judiciary act-attempting to change
the tenure by which the Judges held their Offices
to term of years-denying the right of the FEEDER
al Government to protect manufaetures-to make
lnternal improvements or to retain the property in
the public lands, and finally denouncing the Ma
tional bank In their newspapers they deal in en-
phatc and affected assertions of the independenca
and sovereignty of the States; and their system
should it finally prevail could have no other result
than that of bringing us back to the confusion and
mbecility of the Old Confederation
Under such circumstances it was naturally to be
expected that the President of the United States
as the head Of the Executive Department, and the
natural guardian of the rights and powers Of the
Federal Government, would have exerted his in
fueAce to check this dangerous spirit Instead of
this we find him openly encouraging it and ever.
acting himself under its influence Although elect.
ed to office as an avowed and pledged adherent OF
the protecting system and internal Improvement,
we have seen him for all practical purposes lending
ms aid to the destruction of both His leading
friends IN Congress are attempting to wrest from
the Union the public lands. He has himself rome
out OF his way, IN two successive messages without
pretenee of necessity-six years before his re-
commentator could be acted onto denounce the
Bank. When the State of Georgia extended her
Jurisdiction over the Cherokee Indians, in direct
contraventlon of whole series of treaties, the
PRESIDENT not only refused to enforce those treaties
In favor OF the Cherokees, but actually Withdrew
the troops OF the United States frem their territory
ana let mem to the mercy of their enemies, in
open violation of the act of 1902, which required
hlm IL necessary, to employ the army for their pro-
tecuon' When the general assembly of the same
State passed resolutions denying some of the most
essential rights off the Federal Court
ana requiring her executive officers to resist the
VI sHSLiI luS newspapers connected with
the administration approved these oxtrayagant pro-
ceedings. 1t is plain, in short that the whole vast
influence OF the national administration, has been
and Will be employed in aid of che dangerous and
disorganzing spirit to which we have alluded
and it is much to be feared that should such state
of things continue long, this unnatural and unhal-
lowed coalition of forces will effect the overthrow
OF our most valuable institutions, and virtually de-
stroy the essential principles of the government
Should this be the case, the subsequent progress to
anarchy and actual civil war would be rapid and
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1t appears from this concise survey Of the pres
ent situation Of the Union, that it is the duty Of
oil patriotic and iudicious citizens not only not to
aid in the reelection of the present incumbent to
the Chief Magistracy of the Union, but to use all
their efforts to effect change in the National Ad-
ministration and in order that such efforts may
be made with success, the time has now arrived
I when it is necessary TO designate candidate fo
the succession, whose name may be a rallyinl
point and principle Of Union to the adherents o
the good cause.
In looking round the country for such pers or
it is almost superfluous to say, that the eyes of a
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