The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-08-06

Ia i,s security from foes within than all the
,yealth Of both the Indies, and all the fleets and
.,mics which that wealth purchase and EN-
NOV Let the great moral principles on which our
ffnsi,,utions are based, and which vera bodied
forth in the persons of our revolutionary ana con
.,,,u,ional fathers, cease To exert controlling m
anonce upon the men "a whom rs entrusted ths
governmcnt Of this country end let iheir derehc-
ton from these principles 'ocINo VIC ue,o.i i
sanction Of the American People, ana TINS nation,
- iii ,,s show ct high health and yigor, shall
faoI 70 its very eNtremucs paralysis, from which
IL will require little less than miracle Tor It's re-
eoveIy
Tbere has Mr. Chairman, been much said, re-
Gently about the delalcatlons of public officers =
and Tho amount Of losses through public agents,
especially ono Of them, has been dwelt on
with much emphasis. Sir, this - right. We may
well feel the loss Of the large sums Of which the
Treasury has been deiF0udsd But the amount of
money lost is the true measure of the mischief
nor would il be If It were twenty times multiplied
I, rouses, indeed. the public attention but II that
attention is not fixed upon something beyond the
mere loss Of money, ami beyond even the means
of future security by checks and penalties, it will
be employed 10 n very inadequate purpose These
defacatOns have been the results Of the dangerous
and ,rr,,pting principle Of Executive removals and
appointments To which have called your alten-
ton.
Tho appuintnent OF Samuel Swart wouI--who
has been suffered, by most culpabe neglect, TO
accumulate in his hands and sqlander million
and n quarter of dollars--was, as have before in
timated one of the first of the appointments made
Nv General Jackson, after Diminishing the Senate in
lS3q-an appointment made upon the removal of a
competent aud faithful officer, for the express pur
pose Of rcwarding an active and devoted partisan.
The question Of iTust-worhincss was not made
the question ia that II II had been, Jonathan
Thompson would have been retained. Bot no !;
partisan friendship and partisan services outweigh
al ull other combinations and Thompson was
renewed and Swartwout az pointed.
That removal aUd appointment was fai sam
Ps oi the great mas of removals and appointments
rate uadrT t'i- dsuasty sDd q VIII be fond that
she uluItFrus caFes ct dot4lsauDu huya been thost
-. rsso who have been tbus appointed ugon re
NOV as -sr 6;.ystou- sake. Thgy ha.e a mattfr
Of course. besu SOFAS. fflus o. serve the En-
c,f,ye than 70 d,schargr their otiicisl dates sta
have moreover feit that they nght expect spcUiu
"a 3, nee lron an Executive bound 10 them by
stf-ag varty uca I'D reluctant, from motives o
t.rty- rras tl have ihcJB exposed. IL would have
b@sn a -iFsclc f ihg F"hitc mUnoys had not been
,.5up,Irrsd under such r.rCurns'aBCrs. The dsisl-
eauovf 'hsrsfore. "a hrh have 81 stsTtisd the c0un
trv have been tie leF .Iaato truit g the corrupt
use q Executive PairvnHBs ~lth which 90 has Feen
If s,r this cru shall Iced the People consider s
Nature oS me tree which has produced 4, and shall
begst determination 20 cut AZ dOloR and destroy e.,
the nation may well afford TO sustain all the losses
complained OF. les, sir if hundred millions
and twice a hundred millions could purchase for
the country perpetual exemption from that abuse
ofExecuiivs power which have described if 1t
could secure and indefinite succession Of Admins
trauons formed, in this respect upon the model Of
the pure Adm Illustrations, formed in this spect
upon the model of tho pure Administration which
purchase than two hundred OF ten hundred mllion
ever made.
But, sir, what cannot be purchased with money q,
the People may be reused TO accomplish by their
votes and trust they they preparing
complish il in manner which will be long remem
berod by those who have abused their confidence
and heiTay ed their rights. They are beginning to
feel their strength, and put II forth upon the MASSEY
pillars of the temple of corruption. Give them
one full and fair Aears and it shall tumble into
ruins
Pretended reform of 500 realty needed in 1889.
Ii is not little remarkable, Mr. Chairman, that
the abuses which the Wings now laboring To
reform, by putting down the Administration, are
of the very same nature with The pretended abuses
whose reform promised by the leaders OF the
present Administration party, ten years ago. II,
sir, 10 search for exhibition OF tho pm
ciples of Wing reform, could end them where
more clearly and fully set forth than in General
Jackson's letter TO Mr. Monroe, in 1916 in his
Address to the Tennessee Legislature in 1895 in
the Executive Patronage Report of 1926 in the
Retrenchment Report of 1928; and in General
Jackson's Inaugural in 1929. What revolution
would he effected IN the administrators oil TINS 20
vo~r~,ov' r. 'No ~-i""'r'es contained in those pa
rrtH .--'' No cafu.4 o. .. .. ". ". NnGia
l.,.ini.tr...yA oil lou, .sa.- What . ....
would il be to every true Wing IN the United
States TO sec eIeva'e ed TO the Presidency who
would stand up 10 this Hall, on the 4th of March,
1Sal and put forth the very language used by Gen
Jackson on The 4th of March, lo29 provided
there could DO reasonable assurance that 1t would
be honestly and faithfully carried out in his nd.
n,ipistration. How consonunt to genuine Wing
principles, and how appropriate to the present
state Of things, would be The following portion of
General Jackson's Inaugural, in the mouth of a
Wing President:
"The recent demonstration of public sentiment
inscribes the list Of Executive duties in charao-
tiers too legble TO he overlooked, the task of RE-
FORM which will require particularly the correc-
ton Of those abuses that HAVE BROUGHT vHE Pa
TRoSAoE OF THE FEDERAL GovERSMESr ISTo
coSFLicT WITH THE FREEDOM OF ELECTIONS, and
the counteracton of those which HAVE
DIsIrRBAD the nGHTFUL COURSE OF APPOINT
MEHT, and have placed or continued power in w.
FAITHFUL or INcoMPEST hands. In the perform.
ancs OF task thus generally delneated, shall en-.
deavor TO select men whose diligence and talents
will ensure, in their respective stations, able and
faithful cooperation, depending, for tho advance
ment OF TIE puELIc SERVICE, more on tho INrEG.
RIrv and zoIi ~ The public officers than on their
EuABERs; A dfhdence, perhaps too just, in my
qualifications, will teach me TO look with
Eenerahon to the lights that flow from the mind