Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-05-31

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through our land. The National Intelgencer COM
nenced the tocsin--and the smaller prints will re-
echo II TO the most distant corners of the country
And upon what grounds is this nsidious ilnpeach-
mcnt founded?
The lnteligencer Of Monday last puts forth the
following article:
"Tnr Pnosonlrr,osTho reader will learnt, from para
SoSy oa 5 @ Of Which
actually made out of be Executive
city for signatures we know the single Individual
n'sra sy SsS os Rs or .
.Go sinister deduction; om The late
views Of those who arc
hand. pssd IN
,SSSss Ss""S wide ss
@ sS S an vsuc
in the ITSELF msapprchension of subject liz
Here follows formidable List of the officers to
he removed, extending to almost every officer ofthe
Executive department of Washington--comprc
hendipg the Secretary of War, and ~ clerks. the
ls Sd, and 9th Auditors and 12 clerks in the 4th
Auditors office! the Register and IS clerks ~ in
the Land office! s in the Treasury-the LIST Comm
troler and clerks! in the Cd Comptroers office!
IN the Treasurers Office! the Solicitor of the
treasury and one clerk in the Bounty Lands
| ofice-2 in the Indian oice-1 i'm the Quartermas-
ter Generals office-the Paymaster General and 3
clerks-1 in the Army Subsistence Department
the Surgeon General clerk i'm the NAVY Depart
ment-one of the Navy Commissioners-two of the
Heads OF the General Post-office, and 26 clerks
and lastly the Commissioner of the Public Buildings
Making at one fell swoop, 139 officers to be remov-
ed" very large proportion" of which persons,
says the N Intelligencer, ''are among the most able
faithful, experienced officers, and respectable ct-
Zens, that ever have held public employ ments un.
der the Government of the United Stateso-The
very next morning the same Intelligencer repubsh-
es neo Edition of the List, with ".Note Tarior,un"
striking out the Secretary of War, and substitute
ing the Treasurer of the u. S. ~
The Globe of Tuesday pronounces on the autho-
rty oil "ohe OF the citizens principally concerned in
getting up the papers mentioned,' that the List or
synopsis of the Intelgencer is faise-false in the
most material points"
And yet the Intelgencer ventures upon mere
and it appears an uHounded, rumor to put out ia
pie OF prescriptions, which is false i'm the most ma
feradt points, And yet Notwithstanding this direct
contradiction, we shall this false and formidable
list echoed and re-echoed by the, Opposition prints
from one end of the Union the other. Did the
lnteigencer show call the decency," in throwing
out specifications which it did not knoic to be true
and which turns out to be materially false? Why re-
sort to this precipate publication Was it to scat
ter am6iguas Uoces-and fill the country with ithe
most extravagant stories of the most scathing denun
Citations
"A few words to the persons who have been con-
cened I'm getting up these papers! those patriotic
volunteers, who have undertaken to instruct the
President and his Cabinet, about the qualifications
OF ms ofhcers-to that Central Committee, who have
dared to revise the machinery of the administration
and regulate its moyements-to those sd good
natured friends" of Andrew Jackson, who are doing
they will be able correct by all their fidelity
and all their zeal And first let us remark this
is not the first time have heard of the ta-
bes of prescription being got up at Washington
And this is not the first time we have secuted al
this impernent interference with the administru-
non OF the government Some Is or 24 months since
we received an anonymous printed handful from the
cty, got up Tor similar purpose with this
dern memorial. 1t was accompanied with a written
memorandum on the margin, inviting our attention
to lis contents, and asking support. We noticed
1t at the tiIne-we denounced the proceeding in this
paper-and since that time, we have not heard of
The matter. But as it now dares to show itself,
under something of face, we must repeai
the Indignation which we feel for the whole trans
action-and may we not add our hope, that the
PRESIDENT OF the U. >. will mark il as it deserves?-
we know the ire which kindling by this
plain speaking, in the bosom of the parties concern
ed-but we do not dread their resentment, nor do
we deprecate It's consequences. We speak what we
believe to be the Truth. We dislike this wholesale
prescription If any officer Washington be inca
pable, dishonest, unfathfu, why, let him be dis
carded. And we have no fear that A. Jackson will
ever be wanting in the energy, which such an ar
duous responsibility requires. But that he will view
this proceeding in the light in which it deserves we
have some assurance in the following letter:
Extract Of Letter from Udshin gto,, dated MAY g.
there s nothing new here, but what the newspapers
VIII INFORM you OIL Last week curious farce got up
by some persons in office! They got up petition pray
ing the President TO discharge from public employ all i'm
moral, drunken and incapable and went round
with This paper, and obtained the signatures number
oil The Citizens OF Washington, who thought there was no
harmin signing ncher EMO particular names
being designated for removal When the conspraors got
as many they wanted 10 the petition they append
ed to II paper (wiihont the knowledge of those who
signed the peon) purporting to be list of those deemed
immoral drunken, and incapable. This List contained
about loO many OF them the most repectabe, useful
eihclent officers, employed by the government When
the President read the paper he very indignant and
sent for these very ocoUs office holders who headed the
peilton-and told them that they must make specific
charges against the prescribed individuals and they failed
to do So aud prove them against those the prescribed
list, that they themselves must lose their places.
Our great bridge OF 10 arches the Potomac and
mile long, let by contract to Company from
the State OF Pennsylvania for S 400 900. There wero
am OF opinion, that the highest too low la places
the water is As feet Deep
HONORS TO MIR. RANDOLPH
/ We have laid before our readers the proceedings
of meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia i'm testi-
mony of their respect to the memory of this distin-
gnlshed man. We also spread before them the fol-
I lowing euloglums pronounced at the meeting, by
Messrs. Sergeant and Bnney, as they reported
in the last Philadelphia Inquirer:
"Aiter the organization of the public meeting Of the
friends and admirers OF the late John Randolph held al the
District Court Room Saturday,
'Mr. Sergeant said he offer resolution upon the
subject which had caused this meeting. The very dis
ngUshed citizen who had here terminated bis mortal ca
reer though he had died away from his home, had not
died among strangers He well known in the city OF
lie known he might add in every part Of the world
her l,o