Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-03-14

or two. Ii is not, however, so much my pres
ent purpose to enter myself into such an ex-
animation, as it is 10 invite and stimulate the
public at large 10 take this office upon ITSELF
II, cir, il was any part Of your ambition, in
climbing 10 your recent political elevation, to
secure your name in that vehicle which IL tie
signed to travel down TO remote posterity, to
wit, the page Of tho historian, your ambition
so far will be gratiicd. Should you overtake
ono Herostratus, who was look ed for the same
journey some ages before you, you may justly
claim precedence in rank, inasmuch as his on
ly merit consisted in applying the torch to
mere gewgaw temple, whereas you can aspire
! to the hitherto unattained distinction, of hav-
/ ing at least shaken to its foundation, the most
gigantic and splendid Republican Edi6ce ever
erected by the united wisdom and energy Of
man. And TO maintain your relative pre-em-
inenco you may, without arrogance boast that,
no more than Herostratus, did you receive
the adventurous aid Of superior intellectual en-
dowments.
1t would evidence want of fairness not to
admit that considerable portion Of the sin Of
your elevation TO your late high station, lies
at the doors OF your partisans. At the very
commencement of the administration Of your
immediate predecessor, from the putrescent
and teemng bed Of political profigacy, exha-
cd an edict, the purport Of which was that the
present administration must be put down even
if it was as pure as the Angels at the right
hand of the throne Of Gods As, of course,
the welfare Of the Nation had no part in this
determination, the chief object being TO over
turn the administration OF Mr. Adams, the
main inquiry was, who will prove the most
fit instrument to compass so desirable an end
At recent canvass for the Presidency it ap-
peared that the ecat which the victory of
New Orleans had attached to Your name,
made you almost universally acceptable with
the 'hurrah boys And il was believed that
by skilfully ringing the multiplied changes up
on that victory, and keeping up an incessant
din about the 'extravagance,' the 'prodigalty'
and the corruption Of the existing admins
tretion,. you would stand the best chance Of
succeeding against the then incumbent of the
executive chair, Of any other person in the ma
ton. II appeared in The sequel that your lea
ding partisans had sagaciously sounded and
noted the depths and shallo,Os Of the public
mind and the Giro umstance Of their gagipg
their nets to make them efficient in the latter
portions only forcibly recalls, and is curious
~ coincldent WITH an off-hand remark ascrib-
ed TO you some years ago. when, on being told
for the first time that your name had been
mentioned among others as q cand idate for the
Presidency, il is said that you, with the blunt,
reckless, and characteristic frankness of a SOL
der, declared that the people of the United
States must be d---nd fools to make you
President This saying Of course could on
ly have reference to that portion Of the people
who roted for you. The contingency on which
this character Of the people Of the United
States was predicatcd actually happened; a
constitutional majority Of them made you
President And now commenced the most
: extraordinary exhibition of Practice persu,
Profession, that man ever witnessed in his fell
bowman. And were it not for the fact that
your professions are before the world in pub
shed letters and public documents over your
own name, another generation would attribute
the alleged remarkable lncongruty between
your words and actions, to the malevoence Of
yonr enemies, and il would be ayen difficult
ioI your contemporaries 10 credit so almost in
credible phenomena. i actually appears as
though you commenced your administration
with predetermhatlon 10 laugh consistency
TO scorn, and TO show the world by the self
same course of conduct, both your contempt
Tor its opinion, and the abjcct submission of
your apparently spell bound followers. You
; advised Mr.. Monroe Oh his election TO the Of
flee from which you have just retired, to disre-
gard party distin cions in his appointments 10
ofice,-to be the President Of the whole peo-
pie, and not OF party. Now, though it is
granted you made no distinction between the
two parties, the one of which supported, and
the other Of which opposed Mr.. Monroe, yet
opposed your elevation TO the office Of chief
Magistrate, you draw line Of distinction the
most marked and lnvidious, one that has no
semblance OF parallel in this Republic. In
your appointments TO Office you have had re-
gard exclusively 10 party distinction. You
have swept the board generally Of men who
would not vote and huIrah for you, however
honest and capable, and filled their places in
t numerous instances with utterly incompetent
anr . L.
disposed TO demur at this charge, lei him recall
to recollection the disclosures in relation TO
the General Posi- Office, where the reformed
clerks with pen and pencil in hand, were in
adequate 10 the duty Of intelligbly noting
down the official transactions of their Depart
: ment, and hang his head with shame.
You was opposed to the same persona FL
ling the Presidential chair two successive
terms, and with truly patriotic disintoresed-
ness averted toNhe subject after your election
to that office in your annual messages 10 Con-
, grebs, setting forth in strong terms your OBJ
Jectons,-and then, not only permitted your
: self TO be reelected, but in addition 10 your
e personal Influence, brought the powerful en-
CINE OF Executive patronage TO bear upon your
own election.
In your first message 10 Congress you
: breach and recommend the principle Of rota
ton in office and propose that the term OF Of
flee be in general limited 10 four years and
concluds with the declaration that rotation
constitutes a leading principle in the republican
creed.' Yet your practice, during your eight
years OF Executive sway, was 10 respect this
leading principle only so far as occasionally
10 appoint iavorie partisan 10 number of
Offices in rotation each moro lucrative or de-
sruble than the last. Neither you NOR your
, friends for you, will pretend, that a faithful
adherent Of yours, holding Office, was in a sin