Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-05-21
From the Portland .7rgus.

The Gazette of yesterday, published the following
extract from the Madisonlan, in winch the most mo
rough prescription plainly and unblushIngy avoWed
''Ta Orid no, made day-it appears 10 Us ina, s
people impatient aud unreasonable IN their exscaton
and demands of immediate action by the President ana ead o.
Departments upon Of removals ana
ne r,ts. III '"''-- for moment Take ~" ~ " ~ i
There thirteen thousand Posmas.e in the United
States No man will contend that less imam Asy ." nas should
consideration OF The case oil each WHOSE reno
Now suppose that the General negee all his other
and duties hours each da> TO the con-
sideration of removals and appointments. ,. ,,,i
According 10 our 'cypherns tue MATER VIII s'ana e AM
teen thousand requiring half an hour make @ da
The of appointments 10 be considered oy Tue uef m
great ana tey are oi'eh oi eo
sequence, and of no little difficulty cp,
Thus in order to satisfy the hungry swarm OF fede-
raj office seekers, they are told sem-ofhcaliy IRON
Washington that the work Of guillotining will GO on
as rapidly time will permit, and that to facilitate the
business much possible, only haitian hour 10 TO be
devoted 10 the beheading of any Democrat This IS
very encouraging truly, and very decent, too, IN party
whose great aim, at the late contest was 70 put dowh
the spoils systen-but the calculation feel bound TO
say holds greater chances of Office for the greedy
Whiclets, than really exist. There are some thirteen
thousand Posmas,ers, perhaps, IN the - but ABOUT
half Of these happen to be Federasts and consequently
will not be removed for the pubc interest never re-
ouires the removal, nowadays, Of any man but De-
nocrat So that the Postmaster General has mt 50
much 10 do after all, as he pretends and working on
the ten hour system. and devotlng halt an an hour 10
each Democratic Postmaster, he might "sweep the
board in less than year
To "s,oeep tie board is evidently the Federal plan.
They had fair participation in the Offices of The
try, under Jackson and Van Buren, but not satisfied
with this they proceeding 10 take the whole, and
divide them among their plumber seeking followers Let
them 90 on and enjoy to the full this day ofheir lgot
power for the day of their punishment is not far off, and
most righteous will be the rebuton that they shall
then receive.
In contrast with the picture above given from the Ma
disonian, let readers contemplate for moment,
the TOLERANCE OF DEMOCRACY.
The Washington Globe publishes list, showing the
number of each party in the Executive Offices at
Washington City, in 1899, 1892 and lSil. This is
published in reply the National Inellgencer which
said that the "proscription" OF THE DEMOCRATIC AD.
ILLUSTRATIONS WAS ABOUT TnE SAME EVERY WHERE
Asls WAsHIsGTos and claimed that all the
try the Democracy had monopolized the Offices.
From the list, it appears that while in 1890 there
were but ifty-six Democrats employed III the public
Offices in Washington, yet on the 18th Of March, 1871,
there WERE EMPLOYED ~ THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS
AT WAsHISoToS, TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY
DEMOCRATIC OFFICERS, WHOSE AGGREGATE SALARIES
AMOUNTED TO TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
SEVEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND FlF-
TEEN DOLLARS; AND TWO HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY-ONE WIG OFFICERS, WITH SALARIES
AMOUNTING TO THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHT
DOLLARS.
sand thus" says the Globe, cit is shown that not
wthstandng the outcry against the removals made by
General Jackson and the monopoly Of appointments
by his friends, the whole process complained Of did
not during the twelve years, bring the parties to an
equipoise in public cmployments. What will the ma
ton think Of the comers who although eSclam-
ing against the spells principle while candidates before
the people, SO far from being content with than
half are hurrying on 10 take the whole''