The people's press, and Addison County Democrat. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1838-1841, 1841-05-11

situation to claim the merits of martyrdom,
who are so reluctant to yield voluntary hon.
age TO the proscIiptive principles which they,
for the first time, established, and under which
they imagine they are about to suffer. In one
of the party papers we have recently seen ex-
hibited horrid picture of a guillotine, and dis
severed heads and bodies tumbling about, while
the unfeeling executisner stands ov er the san
culinary scene, smoking his pipe as calm as the
unclouded dawn Of day. Inconsistency and fol-
ly could 60 no further. 1t is indeed suffic ientlY
amusing to listen 10 the hypocritical m cans
raised by the praetorians of the fallen dynasty
who fought their way with an unsparing- -
over the bleeding bodies of their
the Eidorado of fat salaries, Of whicl~
full possession, and from which it will Be ~
difficult to drive them,as hungry wolves from the
bleeding threats oftheir victims But the battle
cry Of Harrison and reform, under which we met
the myrmidons Of the last administration, extern
ded to men as well as measures. The public
expect alton should not be disappointed. We
are however far from advocating the odious doc
trines o. indiscriminate removal which our OPP
ponents have acted upon, converting our cleo
tons into mere scrambles for Office, the conse-
quences of VIII ich might be an extinct ion of our
liberties, which even we might live to W illness.
Although it might seem but retribu tory justice,
still we hope that the present administ ratio n
will not take Gen. Jackson as a pattern who,
day after day, with indiscriminate!fury sacrific-
ed scores OF victims to appease the cravings of
his hungry partisans, and would have feil him
self chaigeable with feminine com passion, in
pursuing the slow and scrupulous course which
has been recently adopted.
But no valid objectI on can 10 raised against
rotation upon the reasonable scale sanctione
by effrrson. to make removals until suitable
share of Offices should be placed in the hands of
the party coming into power, and beyond that
as the public service required, with strict view
to the honesty and capability of the holders
The odious monopoly Of which our opponents
have so loudly complained elsewhere, they have
here exercised with sweeping severity, until ev-
cry office Of consequence has been filled BY par
tisans, whose subserviency 10 their patrons, sGul
and body, was their only recommendation, Sure
ly such men cannot with any show of consisten-
cy or safety be retained by IN administration
which prohibits elecio neering services in office
holders, a an offence TO be visited with the Sc
verest chastisement. All who have pIosttitu.ed
their Offices to electioneering purposes, and es-
ecaly those who still c ontinue to utter there
malicious, ISLANDERS like hardened offenders who
curse more furiously the nearer they approach,
the scene OF execution, should be removed
as unworthy of confidence. An order of men
trained and disciplined to smother the abuses of
tho government, and fight for it against the peo-
ple at the polls should be disbanded and forever
sbolished. But let all who are capable and faith
full in the discharge Of no other than the egiti-
mate duties of their Offices, be the spared mOnu-
menis of an administration, whose lofty patriot
ism spuEns power TO be sustained by PRACTICES
whose continuance would ere longprosTats our
free an happy institutions in the dust.
The fzocious spirit of prescription for opin.
ions sake which was manifested by those who
now insult the understandings Of the people,
by their heart rending appeals against the mod
crate discriminating reform which is now in
progress, will DO seen in the following extracts
from the publications. Of that period:
From the u g. Telegraph of March 10, 1879 ]
"lft the work of reform may seem to go slow
~ on, the people may rest satisfied that 1t VIII
surely progress. The President has g1ren ms
pledge to the public for the faithful performance
of his duty, and all who know him must be con-
WINGED that he never gave pledge which ne
did not redeem"
ave would hint it for the benefit of those of
our party who are styled leading men, that ev-
ery attempt to sustain in Office by their infiu-
ence those who should be removed, whether the
feeling proceed from misguided sympathy or
from wish to propitiate, it must prove alike
Injurious, because it will necessarily have ten
dency 10 lessen the regard of the republican
party of the nation, and ultimately sever those
ties which bind the great majority 10 their po-
litical interests"
The President in his message, december,
1921 to Congress, said:
sin country where Offices are created sole-
" for the benefit ofthc people, no man has any
more intrinsic right to official station than an
other. Offices were not established TO give
support to particular men at the public expense.
No individual wrong is therefore done Iby re-
moval, since neither appointment nor continu'
ance in office is matter Of right. The incum.
bent became an officer with view to the pub.
lie benefits; aid when these require his reno.
val, they are not 10 be sacrificed TO private in.
terests. 1t is the people, and they alone, who
NAV complain when bad officer is substituted
for good one"
From the Globe Of October 9, 1893.
"The opinion of Washington, that 10 employ
in high Offices men opposed to the government is
s.politieaI suicide, is EMINENTLY JUST. An