Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-08-20
WHIG CANDIDATES
FOR TIE 2iTH CONGRESS-:
Hon. TssESEAM EsURGES,
OF Pro, idence.
HENRY V.GEsANSTGN. Esq
OF Newport.
{ Election on Tuesday "eri, Aug. o5M. ]
For the Herald ofthe Times.

f., What Jackson men find in the Jackson
cause to animate their zeal in its support,
cannot imagine and they are said to be,
now, particularly jealous. | do not speak of
their office holders and office seekers. Those
can assign cause enough for their zeal the
Office holder holds his office by the tenure of
partzan services, and the office seeker makes
his title to Office by partizan services. There
is no difficulty therefore in accounting for
their zeal. But one would think that the
number of Office seekers would now be small,
as the Offices arc now all filled with Jackson
incumbents; unless, indeed, they mean to pi-
rate upon one another: and, as now there
arc no Wings to rob Of office, they are enga-
ged in robbing one another of Office. APP
pearanccs indicate that it is in fact so and in
decd, leave no doubt Of this being the state
Of things, with them, as existing at this mo-
ment. They are spies upon each other;-.
intriguers against each other; secret inform
ers against each other. The Jackson outs
arc constantly at work against the Jackson
ms, to get them out, and to get themselves in.
They send on to the seat Of government Sc
crct information against their fellow Jackson
men in Office, to get them displaced, and to-
get their places-and on the score of their.
own superior partzan merit. The admins
tration favors this spirit Of piracy, and actual
ly makes removals of Jackson men, to make
vacancies for other Jackson men Of supposed
superior partizan merit The multitude, as
well as vigilance of these spies, may be infer
red, from fact of recent occurrence in the
Post Office at Providence. Report says, and
it has not been contradictcd, that a clerk in
the Post office there wrote private letter to
the Postmaster General, accusing the Post
master there of some remissness in partizaD
activity; (he accused the man from whom he
held office, and received salary, and Of a
mere peccadillo.) The letter, it is true, had
not the intended effect, for the Postmaster
there was backed by Jackson friend, This
father-n-law,) whom it would not do for the
administration to offend, by acting upon the
information. This spy was disappointed Of
the fruits Of his vigilance, for instead Of get
ting the Post master removed, he got remov-
ed himself-hs baseness being accidentally
discovered, and coming to the knowledge of
the Post master, he Indignantly expelled him
the office. 1t is probable, therefore, that this
system of espionage and spirit of piracy of
Jackson men upon Jackson men, still keep up
q large corps of office seekers-though all
the offices are now filled with Jackson in
cumbents. But deductng both these clas-
ses, there must still be remaining a considcra-
BILE body of Jackson men, whose interest is
identified with the common interest of the
country, and who have no interest distinct
from that. 1t is of this body Of Jackson men,
that am at a loss to imagine what it is they
find in the Jackson cause to animate their
zeal in its support. Is it, that if that cause
succeed, this State is to be robbed, in COM
mon with all the old States, of its share ofthe
proceeds Of the sales Of the public doman?-I
Of an annual income to her, to begin with,
of upwards of twenty thousand dollars; and
annually 10 lnCTeaSc IOr CenluTies W Coiiief- ii
That we are to be robbed of this rich inheri-
tance, and our children after us, and our chill.
dren's children, down the long line of gene
rations for ases on ages to come? Is
the object of depriving this State of this rich
fund of annuities-(so convenient to her as it
would be, so easy and abundant as it would
make her in her finances, for all time to
come lis this object so very animatng to
their zeal in the support ofthe Jackson cause?
Now, if the Jackson cause succeed, all this
loss to the State is as sure to follow, as death
is sure to follow deadly poison, if swallow
cd down. Jackson has put his veto upon
your having this fund, or any share in this
fund. lie has told you, that his doctrine is,
that all the public domain should, and his OBJ
ject is, that it shall go to the nete Staies in
which it is, and is to be. Van Buren is
pledged to this object-particularly pledged;
the delegation of New York, in both Houses
of Congress- in consultation and on delibera-
ton with Van Buren, The being in the Chair
Of the Scnatc) have pledged themselves, by
their votes, to this object; they have pledged
by their speeches in debate, to.
this object. IfVan Buron then be elected,
this immense loss to you, in common with