The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-03-27

'"N6OS, StdtiOhsS hOnOfs are not hcicuiiaiy hOl
perpetual in this Republic. Periodical changes
and publications are salutary and necessary
A long lease Of the offices of government pro-
duces frequently stagnation and corruption.
When the people decided that Mr.. Van Blu
rem should go out Of office-and that President
should not hold but one term, they determined
also that those Of his adherents and dependents
who employed themselves in the war against
the majesty of the people in the late struggle, or
who are incompetent, or corrupt, should, as a
matter of course, go out with him. 1t is mat
ter Of justice that there should be change in
the principal Departments of government--the
people expect it-their voice demands it, They
claim rotation as matter both of right, and of
expediency, 1t is untrue that change of go
venment agents, required BY public sentiment,
is prescription for opinions sake II is rotation
for equal rights sake, and for the sake of the sal
walton of the government. The Executive and
his Cabinet have no malice in their characters
mo spirit of prescription, or of persecution
They have high sense Of the moral RESPONSE
bilities OF their stations--a just conception of
what is necessary to be done to carry on sue
cessfuly, and without obstruction, the affairs of
government Is investigation necessary in any
particular of6ce2 May not Loco-foco, if he
be retained in possession, make concealrnent of
facts and circumstances, which, if exposed,
might confirm some suspicion of fraud or of
corruption If an important trust is to be exc
cnfpd lie an indiuidnaI I;
tration, to be selected, when multtudes of friends
are ready to execute it with equal energy, and
with more jealous pride2 Can the Executive,
elected to carry out certain great and fixed prin-
ciples, employ as his agents persons who are
hostile to those principles, and who will use
their influence and take their opportunity to en-
barrass and defeat them?
The clamor Of the Loco-focos about removals
from office comes from them with very i'll grace
We infer from it that they have not all along
been doing as they would be done by Did
they not remove faithful officer CDR. Jones)
from the City Post Office, for no other reason
than that he was a Conservative Have they
not prescribed multitudes of others for opinions
sake2 Did they not mark every Wing in office,
and publish his name among the lists of the
victims OF their prescription, every one of whom,
in case of Mr.. Van Buren's reelection, was to
feel the axe of decapitalion Was it not the
doctrine upon which they began in 1S29-re-
affirmed and avowed by Gov. Marcy in the Sc
nate, and acted upon continually, wherever and
whenever it was practicable, from the beginning
to the end of their dynasty2 Turn back to the
official organ of President Jackson in 1829-you
will find lists of removals and appointments,
filing whole columns of that Journal, backed
and supported by long editorial essays daily
To refresh the memories of those who now ex-
hibit so much sensitiveness on the subject, we
will make few quotations from Gen. Jackson's
official organ, which we commend to the Loco
focos for consolation in their present affections:
One of the duties imposed on the President elect is
to see that the laws faithfully executed for this,
he IS responsible to the people How can he expect
that duty to be faithfully DONE if he retains in Office
the retaners and partzans of Mr.. Clay who have not
only filled the country with ISLANDERS as to the past
but prognosticated the greatest evils to the uture2
January 6, 80
If there be any man in Office who would starve il
No one should be continued in Office who, in a coun-
try like this, cannot make an honest living and, if
we know any thing of public sentiment the time has
come when public men will be required to work for
their living well others. ID.
Gen. Jackson, in preerring his friends to his enc
mics, will be the President of the Nation Jan. a.
One of the fundamental principles of our govern
ment is, that the will of the majority shall prevail;
and, when any political party gains an ascendancy
over anotner it is to be presumed that it viii have the
affairs of government administered on its own princi-
pes particularly as the responsibility with it,
and that individuals having the interests and views of
the party at heart would be better adapted to carry
into effect its great and leading Objects than those
opposed. Such the policy pursued by the great
Jefferson, whose purity, wisdom and patriotism, no
man question. Jan. IT.
We wonder if the editors can be serious in expect
ing the President to be able work that efficient re-
form which the people look for his hands, if he re-
tains in Office to the exclusion of his friends and the
advocates Of REFORM those political enemies, familiar
lied to the abuse and corruption of the preceding ad
ministration2 March l6.
An affected sympathy is attempted and a mawkish
sensibity INDUCED in by some, for the probable fate
of any oficeholders who the active parzans of
the late administration, and he vindctive calumniators
of the powers that be- This is sheer affectation too
shallow not to be detected and is confined to their
own brotherhood. Who, that respects the prin pIes
of the democratic pary-who that hopes for reform
who, that reveres consstency-who that loves Justice
who, that despises the wanton coumniator, but
must take decided stand against this class OF persons
who were the DISTINGUISHED recin;ents of H. c,o. f
the late administration These m n have no, only
no claim for continuance in Office but ought to be
removed, that men of homogeneous sentiments may
be brought in, the latter by concert Of action to re-
store democracy to its long lost rights that uniform
cooperation In all the responsible parts may be en-
poyed to detect abuses and effect reform J" that