The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-09

ing Of iashsrnAw brotherinriAw, brosher, brothers
sons, cousins, Sc, 10 the amount Of about $4,000
: year, including his own late salary
This paragon Of principle and CONSISTENCY frequent
II returned letters 70 the Ohy Post Ofce. that had
been addressed under his frank for persons connected
with his Office alleging that il would bea fraud on the
treasury TO hand them oycro their owners before the
postage was charged. This unnecessarily commend
able exhibition Of scrupuIous honesty but happens
that this nice gentleman Of tender conscience has de-
frauded the public by anking Of clectioneer
inc pamphlets and extra Globes and sat this time abus
ino the frank of Loco-foco Jacobin members Of Con
gress in transmitting his photographic circular letters and
public Addresses through all the avenues Of the mails
to say nothing Of other photographic electioneering
letters signed and ranked by different Executive Of
cers transmitting the prospectus Of the Extra Globe,
to every nook and corner Of the land such as the copy
lately published in tho Madisonian, signed and frank
ed by H. L. Ellsworth, Commissioners Of Patents
In the pompous burlesque Declaration of Prnci-
pes set forth in the Hickory Club Address, prepared
by Amos Kendall himself, for that electioneerng
citation Of ocehoders and Others estabshed here by
his notion as model for the like associations set on
foot by his recommendation throughout the country
he SAYS, Offices in our Government created for
the good Of the PEoPLE and not to provide places for
personal .faroritss Of the Chief Magistrate, any
other man or men, This was excellent show OF
democratic principles yet Kendall has gone largely
into the practice Of giving offices the principle Of
party and personal avorsm exclusively, and has used
his clandestine influence with the President to the
same end regardless too Of their qualifications and
| fidelity to the public trust
| In the same address, he says" Offices should be
limited in number, to the actual exigcnccs Of the
public service and filed with men of talents, integri-
iy, industry, and pure republican principles Yet,
as an ntcger of the :. unit administration he advo-
Gates that enormous and useless increase Of officers,
inevitably called for by the Subtreasury scheme and,
also, that army of 100000 men, proposed by another
fraction Of the same unit = Of the measures and er-
fraragansas of which unit" all the parts must bear
their due proportion responsibility, unless the Presi-
dent, as its great head, personifed whole, be re-
sponsble for them all which, indeed, is one of their
cardinal assumptions And as to his commendable
suggestion conne offices to persons Of integrity
ii is notorious that he well as the rest Of the "un
as IL il trere part Of their system--has appointed
and retained in office, persons of infamous character
knowing them to be Infamous But, above all, in
regard to restricting them persons of pure repub
Ilcan principles" nothing is apparent to every
eye than that grim aspect Of distress and embarass-
men which Fervades all nature, brought partly by
the fundamentally of this traitor all his fair pro-
fessons Of republican principles and true democracy
affecting to advocate the doctrine Of the largest Ii
bery," hut which, truly interpreted means the old
iacohn If All the of law uniyer-
sal agrarianism, and finally living in common; which
in fact nothing less that returning to the
most abandoned state Of bdrbarism.
| In the same address, he says" No man has pro-
perry in the Office he holds II is trust Of the Pro
PILE; and whenever the People think proper to place
the trust in other hands, no personal prong is done
to him who is displaced" If truly acted upon this
would be less excellent than the rest Of this double
dealers fair professions But must leave it to the
reader to excIaim with indignant disgust, at the ex
ertions which this prince of humbugs is making
to ridcie and counteracf that great uprising Of the
People TO displace those unfaithful servants and
traitors 10 g true republican principles" who are
using the trusts rcposed in them their pro
| pcrty"
But will now desist, for the present from further
| expostions for though these compose not hun
dredth part of the disgusting catalogue yet the gross
contradictions of his practices with his professions are
sufc lent to remind all Of the fable which tells US
that liar is not to be believed even when he may tell
the truth-or of that axiom of prudence, which adj
| monishes us to beware Of the PIRATE, though he
hangs ont the SIGNAL OF DISTRESS"
| COMMON SENSE.
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