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

Il
ment with VIM se 10 refresh the rec.
oileclion OF those VINO ratSbout WING proscrip-
tion." We allude to the celebrated letter Of
Martin Van Buren,, detailing the removal of
cer:ain "Rascally Post.Masters" as early as
1920. These removals are the first ever mado
upon political grounds. With Van Buren,,
therefore, originated the policy of political Gre.
wards and punlshmcnts' Here is his letter
April 4th, 1920.
Our sufierings. owing TO the rascality of the
Deputy Pos,masters, is intolerable and cries
aloud for relief. We find it absolutely impos.
sibe to penetrate the interior with our papers,
and unless we can attain them by two or three
prompt removals, there is no limiting the inju'
rious consequences ii lat may result from it
Let me therefore enlreat the Postmaster Gen.
eral TO do an act Of Justice and render US par
tlal service, by the removal of Holt, of Herki'
mer, and the appointment of Jabez Fox, Esq;
also Howell, of Bath, and appointment Of
an excellent friend, w. B. Rochester, ESQ.,;
and the removal of Smith, at Little Falls, and
the appointment of HOLSTER; and the removal
of Chamberlain, of Norwich. and the appoint
ment Of Lot Clark, Esq. | am in extreme
haste and can therefore add no more. Use the
enclosed paper according TO your discretion,
and if any thing is done let it quickly be done,
and you may rely upon it much good will result
from it. -
Yours, affrctionatslv,
Nj. VAN BUREN,
Hon. II. MEIGs,
In the Globe of the 9Th Of JanyrS- 400.
may be found the following: :
''If there be any man in office WHO would
starve if turned out, it is at once AN ARGU-
hENT FOR HIS REMOVAL. No one should be
continued in office, who, in a country ike
this, cannot make an honest living: and, if
we know any thing of pnblic sentiment, the
time has come when public men will be
required to work for their living as well as
others"
In the same paper is also the following:
"One of the duties imposed on the Pres
ident elect is to see that the laws are faith
fally executed-for this, he is responsible
to the people. How can he expect that
duty to be done, if he retains in office the
partisans of Mr.. Clay, who have not only
filed the country with SANDERS as to the
past, but prognostlcated the greatest evils
as to the futurel"
On the l4th of January, 1920, the Globe
says:
"Gen. Jackson, in preferring his friends
to his enemies, will be President Of the ma
ton"
On the nth Of the same month. it said:
! "One of the fundamental principles of
lour government is, that the will of the peo-
pies hall prevail; and, when any polit
| ical party gains an ascendancy over anoth-
er. ii is TO be presumed that If will have the
affairs of government administered on its
own principles: particularly as the respon-
sibility rests with it, and that individuals,
having the interests and views Of the party
at heart, would be better adapted TO carry
into efIectits great and leading objects, than
those opposed. Such was the policy pur-
sued by the great Jefferson. whose purity,
wisdom and patriotism, no man can ques-
tion."
On the 10th of the following March, the
Globe said:
ave wonder if the editors can be serious
in expecting tho President to be able TO
work that efficient ref form which the people
look for at his hands, if he retains in office,
to the exclusion of his friends and the ad-
vocates of reform, these political enemies,
famiiarized to the abuse and corruption of
the preceding administration"
APPOINTMENTS AND REMovALs.-The Bos-
ton Atlas of Monday publishes commune
cation from the Collector of that port CIV
ing list of appointments made by him,
together with brief reference to the rules
which will govern his farther action in these
matters. As every change made in any of
the offices under the General Government
is signal for fresh cutlery about ''proscrip-
ton" from the starvelings and leeches of the
Loco-Foco party, we think it well enough
to publish what Mr.. Lincoln says on this
subject We trust that he, as well as eve
ny other functionary of the Government
vested with power so to do, will adhere and
act up to the rule indicated in the subioin-
ed extract, let who will grumble.
The Collector has found painful occasion
to make frequent application of the rule
laid down by the late and the present Pres.
ident of the United States, and adopted bv
the Executive Departments of the Govern
ment, in relation to removals from Office
1t is rule most reasonable, Just, and liberal
in itself. 1t interferes in no respect with
the exercise of the inalienable and sacred
right Of suffrage and the free and manly ex-
preston ofprivate judgement, while it re-
strains the undue and dangerous influence
and patronage ofpower and office. 1t was
universally proclaimed by the great Whtg