Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-08-09
WATCliMAN g. STATE JOURNAL
50 IN ADVANCE, 50 so AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
REMOVALS AND APPOINTMENTS.

1T is not strange that the peous wailing OF per
sons who have been removed from Office bv the
present administration, either foi incompetence or
as is more often the case, for grossly improper in
reference i'll the party politics of the country, aud
the lachryinose articles occasionally served IN in
the Globe, either in the form of communications
from the poor suffering inDocen;s themselves, or
M the editorials of that print, should excite
ching OF sympathy among all persons possessed OF
ordinary feelings. But we must be allowed to say,
that, however much such feelings honor the
hearts of those who entertain them, they ought
not to be allowed to interfere with the strict and
equabe discharge of the imperative duties in this
regard, of the President and heads Of Depart
ments.
1t is not TO be supposed for moment TINT re-
movas from Offices made without cause as the
persons removed would have us believe or rs
some OF the suffering saints would represent, be
cause they have only done their duty too tceH for
IN nine cases out of ten, the ocoloco Office hold
ers, both IN Washington and throughout the coun-
try, were ex otfcio and by condition and contract
demdgogues and party managers. In almost every
town and village, the post offices, custom houses,
and land offices, if the incumbenis where they
were situated happened, as WIS usually the
case, TO be friendly 10 the late Administration,
were openly used and known as the political
headquarters of all the isma beer politicians,
and party hacks, in the region round about.
There, their private meetings and caucuses were
always hoiu anu any SUCH trlDlng matters as
"blank paper and irvine" were needed in the
course OF their patty operations, ''my Govern
ment" was always able TO furnish them: if moneu
was needed, an assessment upon the salaries Of
these office holders was always a ready means of
raising 1t. Were partizan circulars and docu-
mens to be circulated, postage Free at the expense
OF an impoverished Post Office Department. post
masters and their deputies and clerks throughout
the country and others in the Departments here
al head quarters, were always at hand to fold and
frank, and direct them, with materials belonging
to the Government, and during the hours which
they were paid for, and bound to employ in work
ing for the public. We're the letters papers and
documents OF Wings 10 he detained, or opened,
villains in office were always ready to do the
deed. Were voters 10 be challenged or bued,
and driven away from The polls, custom house of
Ulcers, Underwriters, posmasters, and their hired
menlals and assassins, were always at hand, TO do
the bidding of those upon whose reelection their
own fate depended.
VAST necessary TO throw dust in the eyes of
the people, in order to convince them that in dis
approving the sub treasury, or any other scheme
for enslaying them, by first making them beggars
they were acting without knowledge, such en-
issares as your Johnsons, and Tappans, and AL
iehs ana 0arlahds, and myriads of other "sma
intelligences" in office, high and low, were always
at hand, 10 insult the understanding and moral
sense OF the community, by their absurd sophistry
and low-lived appeals to all the base passions in
others, by which they themselves were actuatet.
And shall it now be said, that when some oflbe
very men who have in this manner assisted in
bringing ruin upon the land, and in keeping the
people in bondage, plundering, or allowing others
to plumber, the treasures of the nation, drawn
from The earnings OF the people themselves, riot
ing and rolling in luxury and wealth and in the
midst OF all their tawdry splendor, shocking the
common sense of the community by calling them
selves the exclusive Democrats of the country and
denonncing their honest and industrious oppon-
ents as Aristocrats' -deiaming every man of
talents who dared oppose them desecrang the
memory of the dead, and attempting to destroy
the hard earned military renown of our glorious
republic shall it be said, we ask, that when these
are removed from the places they have dsgraced
and desecrated, that cold-bIooded, hard.hearted
"proscrpton" is at work with the "bloody guillo.
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We wish to see justice and the strict require.
ments of duty fully carried out Justice temper
ed with mercy-but let the consideration of the
mercy which is due to the feelings of an nsulted
and suffering people, not he forgotten. Let it be
that mercy which prevails on the judicial bench,
and which never nterteres with solemn duty and
justice. Let it be the mercy which every man
shows to a servant who has allowed his affairs TO
60 to ruin, or who has for years robbed and plum
deled his too confiding employ .MadisOnian