, 1841-11-13

then the falsehood that General Jackson hurl-
ed his political enemies, en- masse, from office
for opinion sake, the National I%ntelligencer
with pious horror, and the Wing followers
t'Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart.
Little dogs and all" ....r.-.
commenced a paper crusade against him and
his supporters more bitter than any waged
against any public man IN any country since,
the days of Cromwell. Falsehoo} small in
W a'Sl ingtas hagd(uls Of snov fnn the
peakso of the eternal Alps, went Srth from
the Capitol, gathering in weight and volume
as they went, until at last they crushed thou
ends of the old HERDS supporters, and filled
MS .'yn pathway to the temple Of fame with
melttg fragments. Years rolled on, and still
the odlrus prescription Of General Jackson;
winch was 4 creature Of Wing concep-
uon--haun;ed the pure imaginations Of the
mercy,iovrng Clayites. He'll itself was ran
sacked Tor ep1lhets sufficiently terrible to
stIgmatIse the retorm of 1929, and men were
ready to dip their lands in blood-to take
the dastardIy cloak If the assassin and wo
the n%Isht--to rid the country of the monster,
who determined that incapable and dishon-
est men should be stricken from the official
roll OF the country UPON the ground that the
public edifices were neither States prisons,
Aims Houses. or retreats for the insane. 1t
was a terrible hour, and we We're truly glad
when it, with its shadows, its l~alsehoods. and
its curses, had passed away.
When Mr.. Van Buren, came into nower
no removals were made. His open enc mics
remained in office, under his ve.v nose. and
Washington was full of his trarucers. lie
was called a proscriplionis,; but there was
no prescription. The Wings rccnsad him
of design to clear the aegean stable, but
the augean stable remained in its hlthiness
until the friends OF Mr.. Van Buren complai-
ned of his inertness. and cursed him for hs
charitableness. Finding the Magician, as
they called him, averse to general removal
from office, many of the generals and the
renegades of the Camp opposed him. They
went over TO the enemy like other traitors;
and he who told the removed officials, in the
days of General Jackson, "to root hog or
die" told the removed officials, in the days
of Harrison, ''that Jackson began it, and
they might now put the bitter chalice to their
lips"
A change in the Administration was now
efiectcd-by what means every day rs FAST
disclosing. The outs became the ms, and
Gen. Harrison, pledged against prescription;
himself a victim, if his biography is to be
bel~ieved-became President of the United
States. He was TO restore peace tc the Re-
public-to hang the hills of his country with
glory, and to fill her valies with plenty
He came in triumph, like an Eastern Con-
queror;; with his voice still weak, from the ex-
ertions he had made in pledging himself to
reform the abuses of the Government-"to
prescribe prescription and TO "muzzle the
Dogs" and, in less than a month, every
Democratic ofice-holder, connected with the
Treasury Department, in the State of Maine,
from "Bours Head to Quoddy," was reno.
we'd, and a horde of political pipe-layers hun
cry as the wild dogs of Attica, and quaint
as the wolves of the Balkan, were brought
in to supply their places. 81 will prescribe
prescription for opinion sake," was the dec
~laration of the incoming President; and "Sir,
your services are no longer required in this
Department. were the words his satellites
used in carrying his determination into ef-
feet.
When called upon TO prescribe proscr7p-
ton, and to muazh the dogs, he referred the
victims to his Ewing, his Webster, and his
Granger; and babe them seek for c%onsola-
ton there. "Madam said he to a lady-an
acquaintance of ours-who feared her hus.
band would be removed, 81 have no time to
to you: 60 to the Secretary. If your
husband has behaved himself, he will not be
re moyed."i And when she went to the
Secretary, such consolation as she received!