Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-04-03
DAVID S. HARLLEE,
JAMES WRIGHT,
G.. H. DUNLAP,
A. HOPTON.
A. p. LACOSTE.
A. BURNETT.

Mr. Jones, for number OF years Post
Master IN Washington city, and Gcn. van
rensal!ier who held the same otfice IN Nj
banv. since the time OF MIR. Monroe Admin
;strat;on, have both been recently dismissed
bv the Pos. Master General. They were
considered by the pubic fully conpetcnt and
very faithful, and the only Justification OF tlieF
removal which VIC have seen offered is that
in q Republic, Justice to The people ca Is for
.-o.,t;on IN office" This rule if carried out
would require an Office 10 be given to every
man in the community IN his turn. "hota'i'n
!, Office. Rotation in office' is the continual
crv Of lazy, starving politicians, and selash
unpriucipled dcmagogues. If they sec. they
10 not regard the fact, that their rule IS pas
ed upon tha anti republican assumption that
Dub,,c Offices arc created for the oeneht not o'
,be pcop!s but the Office ho?lers-that
Governments are Instituted for the sake OF the
governors, and TO. the governed. In truth
,iey care nothing al al! fo7 the people or Their
interests. If they can fatter and gull The
neonle into their service, and maze them
instruments OF advancing them and theiT ENDS,
i is all thew care for When in honest and
competent man happens 80 get mo an othce
and is suffered 10 retain i: IL! he has gained
experience enough to qualify him for serving
the people to advantage, in 1t he must be
discharged ior lis fidelity, and be sen! to gain
experience, and establish character in some
other line of business. not to accommodate
or serve the people il ihis land OF popular
government, fcl this can be done by no one
else as well as himse.-, but 10 reward the
services of some lazy, hungry, brawl:ng,
perhaps ,h.eving adherent Of an intriguing,
successful dcmagoguc.
Since the above was written, we learn
from the papers that Mr.. Skinner the highly
esteemed Post Master at Baltimore, well
known to the country as the first Editor Of
"The American Farmer" and the present
Editor of the Silk Journal, has been removed
10 make room for some more Jealous and
suOSerVlcnt party tooi. vi I!ie "eoa@" CPe'u"u'
in this removal, ard in supplying the vacancy,
the Baltimore Chronicle furnishes the follow.
ing account.
"And how was lis (Mr. SslSHER's 81 re-
moval effected !? lfit is no, known to ali tie
wor.d-ift is not known 10 the Prcsilcn,--
1. ought to bet shall be. No public
complaint was alleged against INN. No
charge of malversltion in Office was made
or whispered. An emssary from Wash
iag:on formerly the cdior Of the Admnis~
tration paper in this city, and now clerk
in the Post Office Department, came TO this
city and procured meeting ofthe { Demo-
cratic Central Committee, as ii is called, and
this caucus. meeting under the cloud Of
night, solemnly solved that Mr.. Skinner
must be displaced. Nor is this all. This
same club, not content with the task of re.
mova, proceeded to decide upon whom ;i.c
"acan. Office was to bc conferred 4 BAL
lot was had and between whom, People
OF Baltimore, were the vo;es ofthjs assem-.
Mage dir;Hcd Joshua Vansan. ard San,