Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-05-24

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whose baueful influence the ere,, GIohs - l.,I,
forever in tears7 How amusing mus, !, b. ,o m.
readers of the ex official of an Administrator, a.
funet, TO have its columns filled, dov after J,v with
lamentations over the removal of parti. an Pos,mas
i"eSe years have passed since that party
f'NN'''eu the dogma, ITO the victors belong the
Sp'N, rom The Minister abroad, beginning with
'"e INDUSTRIOUS Harrison to the lowest tide waiter,
"0"e were 100 exalted, none too humble, to escape
VIC "e" INFUSION" OF Executive energy. Clerks
''e most lnohenslve and obscure in Washington,
WIN large families, and without the right to vote,
"e'e turned out 10 starve-and "root hog or de-
was the gentle response to their deprecations Even
'he miuaTy branches If the public service in cases
o. appointment and employment, were no, EXEMPT
rom the new rule of Executive patronage. TO ire
ward our friends and punish our enemies" Souni.
'ersalIy was this rule enforced afer the "new infu
SION invoked by the Globe that any one womb
nave been laughed at a fool if not pi,ied a. mad
man, who shoald ask for Office unless with pledye
10 use 1t and Nll its patronage for the good of the
parry! In no branch OF the Government waS this
party principle, then for the first time introduced in
70 the administration Of the General Government.
more universally enforced than in the Pos, Office
department. How ineffably ridiculous. then. these
"ailngs OF the Globe at the removal Of men who
nave been put in Office, as is well known on the ex
press ground Of party claims for pariy serpie,, past
and 10 come OF this character is the complaint
which fills some columns of the ex-offcial at Wash
inston at the removal Of MIR Wells of Hartford,
Connecticut. What makes these crocodile tears the
more Iudicrous, Is, that they are she'd not SO much
Tor the act as for the import ant consideration OF
tue Terms employed by the Postmaster General in
the performance Of public duty, in which he hap.
pened 10 use the trGc phraStoogy of an ilustrious
predecessor! The reader has but to substitute for
Francis Granger and Gideon Wells, the words
Amos Kendall and Solomon Van Rensselaer,, and
the cases are IDENTICAL far as relates to the mere
formula OF dismissal, much dwet upon by the
Globe and its associates. Behold the likeness ri
the letter To Van Rensselaer, was correctly given in
the papers during the late campaign, it runs thus:
post Office Department,
"March IA, 1889.
SOLOMON VAN RESsELLEAR
POSTMASTER, Albany, NY.
"Sir-l am instructed by the President of the II
States TO inform you that in his opinion the public
Interest will be promoted by a change Of Postmas
ter at Albany, which ii is his purpose to effect at
"the end of the present quarter.
tsigned) amos KENDALL"
The one to MIR. Wells, from MIR. Granger. is in
tottdsm rtTbS But alas, and aack.a day, it is now
your Dull that sored my OK! Where was, then, the
tender sympathy Of the G;obe-when a gallant SOL
der, the companion Of the illustrious Harrison I'M
der the valiant Wayne, bearing now on his person
the scars and in his body, the balls, of the enemv
when battling again, in his old age, during the last
war, with all the courage and devotion Of youth
What, then, thought the G. Iobe and its friend NJ,
Wells of Connecticut, at this act of "lnwIess tv
ranny and injustice" IN the face Of Mr. Kendalrs
public and express assurance, that no Postm,s,ers
should be dismissed without fair notice and onnor.
lunity Of being hGifdf Was any COMPLAINT nrceJI
against, or opportunity Of being heard cfreted In
the wounded and Var-warn solder-ghose mi IN
character-whose punctuality-whos manly cou
rage, and great exposure and sacrifices, ware so
We! personally known to President Van Buren, y
The "President" who instructed MIR. Kendall IN
say that the "Pubiic Interest icoud he promoted Jy
change Of P0Sima7isrS at .4bany2r Does snv
one believe that, under Mr.. Van Buren, had saint.
ed Wing OF the Revolution have risen from the
dead-stll "Whig'-he would haze been np.
pointed or permitted to hold the Office OF Postmas
ter Of Hartford, in Connecticut
Doubtless this cruel removal Of Mr.. Wells. who
by bis own showing, was the "ardent supporter oC
Mr. Van Buren,, aSd decided opponent Of the
election Of General Harrsonp has greatly inconn.
moded and disturbed The party and is mashirsrv.
at the said town Of Hartford: aud there would 5s
something manly in putting their dissatisfaction. nj
once, on thrt iooting-the footing on whichit will
be placed by any Historian who may hereaG or
make microscopic search after very lttle events
In word there is nothing remarkable in this won
dedul case Of eI Postmaster Wells, successor to
Senator Mics, except the exact COINCIDENCE, in the
language employed in bis DISMISSAL and that used
in the dismissal Of the brave old soldier, Yen Rean-
s,iaT Nothing can be more idle Than these conn.
cal attempts toeYeite public sympathy and indigna.
ton, at the removal Of an "grdsnp' partiznn Post.
MASTER nless It be che folly Of sioppins {, noiie,
Them which, Detber leisure, inclination. nor ne
eessiiy, will permit or requirs rs to do again.