Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-04-21
From the Richmond Wig.
PRESCRIPTION. PRoSCRlPTIO,

4 PRESCRIPTION! PRESCRIPTION.
We have no malice in our composition /. bad
sior the LIE Of Us, we cannot reslst 3 thrill 81
delight when we hear the plz5a-iTc err &.
s. Prescription from the lgs G lie SR1si
sParty. II IS the voice ofTetribus5Te ]ass5csszr1
falls soothlngly upon the car. Themsn, wao
spui IN execution the most odieus system a pro
zscrlptlon which ever disgraced any free eoun-
stry-who could be induced to spare no servi-
ices, no qualifications, when possessed BY one,
zwho could not make his political sentiments
ssquare with theirs-who proclaimed IN ad-
ayance, that the Offices ufthe people were the
s spolls OF VICTORIOUS partiZans-it would be Just
THAT they should have melted out to them {.
small draught at least from the same bitter cuF
(which IN their day ofprosperity and pride, they
so profusely melted 10 others. No good man
could object-eyen they could not complain
swlth any show of justice at such retribution.
Bur the few removals which have been made
shave proceeded not upon the proscnpuve prin-
scIple, but from due regard 10 the public inter-
sest-a Teprobauon of sinecures. aud Of the
: heariless prescription which was perpeirated
sdurng the Federal era. It would have been
sexcusablc had II gone farther but so far as
sIt has gone, il Is subject Of congratulauon-
land we repeat, that the bowls OF Richie & Co.
sare music. 10 our ears.
The Norfolk Herald thus pertinently com
sments co the Loco Foco cutlery again pro
sseriPtion:
\ The Enquirer Is most outrageouslY shock
sed at the list of removals from ofTice which it
ssees every day heightened by the announce
1ments IN the Washington papers. 1t never
tasks why! but is willing now 10 recognise the
sdoetrlne of once IN Office always inoffce,against
which II contended so nanfully when the hick-
sSory broom was making such clean sweep from
from Maine to Louisiana. Now all this IS
5mere stuH-sheer aifeciation--Feminding Us
lei the old 'un' who preached virtue when
Snature had denied her any longer the power to
SIN. Gen. jackson removed many honest, ca
pable andpatriotie men from Office, and In not
ga few instances supplied their places With men
sol bad character who could not get credit with
those who knew them, for a pair of shoes
Awithout deigning to give his reasons 10 the Sc
anate--and the Enquirer swore il was all riohI
Sand proper and according to true democratic
zdoctrine. Gen. Harrison has declared that he
4wia make no removals without being ready to
4sgiye bus reasons therefor, and We take It for
granted that he has made and intends 10 make
suone, Tor which he IS unprepared to shew
scause. 1t IS but natural To expectthat where
the offices were filed by men whose only clam
was their active partizan services, there mus
3haYe been larger proportion of incumb snts
8who were unworthy to be trusted with them
@and who could not he, by any President who
8regarded the safety ofthe public property ane
the public interest more than the interest of !
party. Such characters must have made then
calculations on being turned out, as matter d
course, when their party was elected from
power; and they nib not utter word ofeoin.
plalnt, let the Enquirer rant and rave of = pro
scrIpuon' asst may. By the way, we wers
struck with the close resemblance between ths
remarks Of the Enquirer under lis head o.
IS Black List = (where it arranges the romo.
Vals which aTeIn the process of announcement
with those ofthe opposite papers when Gen
JACKSON went into Office in IS29. The co-in.
cldenee furnishes curious subject for the mo.
rallst to speculate upon. The Enquirer could
Snot thensee the eastimpropriety in furningoui
ian honest efficient officer to reward the seryi.
ICES OF some party hack. It now deals oui
lengthened anathems against the practice -
hen General Preston "a gallant solder q
the late wary was removed froEn the Post OF
hee at Richmond the editor ofthe Enquire.
uttered NOT one note of regret--TIe might, ike
Nym, have q winked, but II is certain that
he did not even hold OUT his . cold iron. $
s It was party move-done fer the good Of the
party, and that was enough. But when the
stables are turned and the incumbent Of Gen.
: Preston's place IS required to = turn ont, IN
Gus turn. Major Sturgeon was not half as furi-
s'ons N his ordinations. when challenged to
box, rs the hero Of the Enquirer IS At the cut
aud odious prescription -