Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-05-19
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10 HERE PRESCRIPTION,
!! here is an outcry, a great outer, g..
scrlptiye Locofocolsm, because the 5 ,d.:n pro
ton of the Federal GoverDment' a s g:Aanlnstfs-
eng monopoly of It's patronara u,''Ounlenan-
1t by distribution among'the W. egOahzng
cofocoism, that for twelve vear. ,,.ss' Inc To-
ken all, has thus become so accrt - mas "a
that when something is taken fro rr'I,ea . all
ooth parties share; It nouns and wao,g give
crashes Its teeth, as If what was eq,'o1 ;s q
a0ere prescription in fact! i4a''I0Iios
Come let US look into this matte, WV
has been, and is, the condition Of The ~, "aat
position to the late Administrator W. o.
the Wings, or what have we had. NJ 1L b.-
and emoluments for twelve long wears, "5 co
eral jackson began his Adminisfratioo h, oeA-
moving General Harrison from his uost a.. e
lster plenlpotentiary, and Mr. Van Bura1 -
ed the dynasty by swapping away eveDipS..l
oilcers Tor votes IN Congress, as in The .,ssaf
the United States judgeshp in New Jersay :.
oy filing vacancies, as to the case Of ~.
Barbour, before the breath was fairlv ont of,5.
body. 10 have preferences even. IN ~.
Wing relations, to be in Wing companv vs,.
reasons for prescription too: and not ony r...
all places filed with Administrator na;. ,,.'
out places were created often, when there Wa,s
not already enough. Now, first, It auDbseon''
ing, it's indecent for the defenders Of NH
party to talk Of prescription, if there were -,
son; but no reason being, next, # : ~
called for, it IS unprincipled as well as IN.
jlst.
There are, It has been reckoned lOOOM
officers in this Government. Everybody. ~,
knows anything, knows full well, that eyeryof.
nee worth having, that could be had, has len
had by some Van Buren, partisan. Nov, We
suppose the Wing Administration ofthe Gov.
eminent has made some 100 removals; andyet
| from the party, which of the 100000 Offices Al.
ready has $500 Of them, there is an oulcry
that the Wings proscribe!
| Thus we see there is not only no reason IN
Locofocoism, but, also, that it is not INTENDED
| there shall be. The moment, of the l00Q0g
office holders, one, one solitary is touched, and
there are 99,9J9 left, there is Just as much of
an outcry as if the Wings had taken their hr
share Of the patronage ofthe Goyermn nj, and
| removed $4,000 at once. The outcry, there.
fore, Is but for deception and political effect
There Is no regard at all on the pari Of the pei.
suns y no make the UutcIy FOR The person remoy-
ed; but It Is got up and rejoiced in, because It is
thought to subserye the interest of the leaders
OF the party whom the people have Just elected
from power.
If the Wing Administration of the Govern.
ment made no removals from Office, it would do
a great wrong to the avowed principles upon
which it came INTO power. It condemned the
/ rf
butt redresses the wrongs ofthe party pro-
scrlbed, by restoring to them a fair share Of the
honors and emoluments of the Government
To condemn in words, and in words onlg, this
system of prescription, while it left the wrongs
of its victims unredressed, and justified the acts
of the prosecutors, by keeping them in posses
| sion OF the emoluments, which they had plum
| dered from others, would be but to have the
profession with the abandonment of practics
we have condemned in our enemies. To re.
store the Government, too, to what It was, and
the old administrators of the Government, was
ore great object of the Wing vietors. We
wanted the principles of the Administration d
the Fathers of the Republic; and men of thai
school to administer these principles. Mos
particularly of all, too, we demanded that Z
mark should be set upon the men who hal
prosttuted the patronage of the Government 70
the purpose of a party. The great struggle
we had had 10 secure the success of our prInci
PIES we knew had not been with the People
but with ofice-holders who had stood between
US and the people, anG seeing and knowing thE
we promised, if ever we got the power, to Sc
the mark upon these men, and forthwith hun
them from misused offices.
Thus, in what we have done, and in wha
we intend to do, Eve speak in behalf of our pc
litical friends,) there is no abandonment {
principle, but the following out ofthe prIncipl
we clearly laid down. We trust. howeyei
that justice will be tempered with mercy
Wherever mans wrongs 10 his country car
be palliated, let them be. Let good officers BE-
saved when they can be, if the prostitution o
their patronage has not been too gross. We
ask for equality in honors only,not for a monoP-
oily. The whole machinery Of ihe Gov
eminent, Except lis head) both atshome
and abroad, is yet in the hands Ofa minority Oh
the people, but it cannot be expected 1t will be
permitted to continue there; and thus, u re-
moyals constantly take place, all good ana rea-
sonable men will see that, justice IS out DONG
away with the prescription that has dIsgTaeeo
the late Government, and establishing me E
quality ofrights and privileges, which II IS ne >;
boast of the Wing party to DO the means I"
carrying out.--Nelo York Express.