The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-27
Communications.
THE GLOBE ON pr
FOR THE MADIsoNIAN

THE GLOBE ON PRESCRIPTION.
ms eHroDtery anu Impuuence uI uuc riiuuc nave
become almost proverba The defeat of the party to
which he belongs to have given additional acer.
bty to the native maignity of the galvanized corpse
that conducts it, and to have added INCREASED fury to
the madness that controls him. The editor has dealt
in falsehood long that his moral faculty has become
deranged and it appears be impossible for him now
TO distinguish between the true and the false lis
mpudence has ceased to produce the least asonlsh-
ment and is beginning TO be absolutely ridiculous
When he undertakes to lament what he calls the
prescription of the present Administration and the
removal of his very meitorous and innocent political
friends who have been, 10 be, thrown out OF
office for their violent craftsmanship, neglect OF duty,
and open interference with the freedom OF elections
one scarcely tell whether to laugh or be sad.
There is evidently want of originality in the jere
mads in which he INDUCES, and it would seem as ii
he had been carefully perusing the National Rcpub
can papers of 1929 and had sezed upon and employed
the complaints uttered by the Wing journals of that
day, when the real prescription of jackson was car
ried to such extent To make the land pale, and
claim for the rule of the iron wed despot the very
Just designation Of the reign of terror" In short
year tico thousand men unceremoniously and
cruelty elected from Office their characters attempted
to be blasted by the official organ, and their families
reduced in many cases, to absolute poverty, merely
for INDUCING their opinions and perhaps giving those
opinions ulterance though they had not interfercd
with the elections and had faithfully and efficiently
discharged their official duties. The brawling pot
clan was put in, and the useful officer turned out
against whom, in nine cases out OF ten scarcely an
objection, moral official, could be urged. These
removals. moreover, were made in the most summary
and unfeeling manner. The prescribed rudely
thrown out and justify the falsely charged
with peculation, fraud, drunkenness, &c, &c, and
afterwards prosecuted by the Administration. Can
these have the assurance to complain and
murmur after having been guilty of the injustice |
have mentioned, and since fed nj the public
pense while those whose places they wrongfully seized
left to staIve, inlhe elegant language Of the
gan Of that day. ito root hog die ~ II utterly alb
surd and mpudent to talk now about the cruelty of re-
moving from office the very men that advocated the
system in 1929 and have justified il ever since Even
handed justice has commended, at last, the poisoned
chalicc to their own lips. il is their own doctrine
and habually illustrated during the preceding admin
istratons, and their complaints calculated TO
excite contempt rather than sympathy. The truth is
the existing Administration has not gone half far
enough The evil was first introduced by Jackson
at the instance il was said of Van Buren,, and it can
not now he stopped, without doing manifest injustice
to those who have been laborng for reform, and espe
cally such have been prescribed 10y the former Adj
| mns,rations. Are men who removed others without
the least cause, and who may be inferior in moral
worth and efficiency TO be fed and pampered at the
public expense, while the wrongcd and injured are
| still to be excluded from public employment The
thing absurd and monstrcus 10 be countenanced
| for moment. The great principle of restoration
ayowed by Gen. Harrison should be adhered to, and
its abandonment will be great political error well
ms absolute injustice. 1t nothing than sheer
justice, because 1T is but restoring to the injured that
OF which they have been wrongully deprived while
il thus rcbukes and condemns the original of pro-
scription. 1t is principle obviously right and pro-
per that object to complain of its opera
ton and abandon would he to do pal able wrong
and to dsappoint public expectation Ii the Loco
Foco office holders not To be removed the Wings
will be justly chargeablo with tasehood, nasmuch as
they have for the last twelve years, attributed corrup-
ton and proligacy TO the preceding Administrations,
and TO retain the very agents who were employed
by them 10 work out their iniqutes, would certainly
look very much il these charges had been founded
in falsehooi. The people require reform. IL il be
not effected they will have aborcd in vain and the
change administration will have resulted in no good
In the execution of this imperative duty the President
and his Cabinet must not be swayed by feeling, part
atty prejudice The suferings of the past must be
remembered as well as the complaints and groans o
the present. No sympathy felt for their friends
in 1929, when this system first introduced. Men
were then treated if they had sensibilty, ant
turned out to sarve or beg, without mercy, and offer