Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-03-06

TIE sPOILS HATiNG-TIIE oFFICE-HATING PARTY.
Washington presents at this moment cloud OF wit
nesses, who bear the most emphatic testimony to the
imposture of the Federal leaders. The partzans who
helped these leaders to power are now pouring IN BY
thousands and every man of them, if he does not say
it in words, proclans 1t in much less questionable
shape, that they do not believe word of all the
Tenn and pledges which their leaders made to the
common mass OF the people while seeking the control
of the Government. Every body knows with what I'M
firing, charitable zeal, the leading Wings denounced
Gen. Jackson for removing comparatively few officers
and making some approach 10 equipose between the
two parties in the holding of employments under the
Government. To remove any man from Office then, on
grounds the most equitable, cruel proscrlptlon-a
violation Of the Consuon-the prostration of vested
rights-a deSposm the souls and bodies and OPT
Of men-a martyrdom of he pess mothers and chill
dren to the Moloch of party The Federal party maintain
ed their position in twothrds OF the public employment
Notwithstanding all this cutlery; and after having avail
ed themselves of The sympathes OF the public for the
few removed, the tune changed; and then Federal
Nhiggery raised its note against oiiiceh holders Of
fee holders oiiice-holders :" They the
most alien race on earth-had no sympathies with
the peope-ought not 10 BIZ allowed TO express
opinion about public affairs, and not hair of their
head was to be touched because of their opinions no
matter what they might be- General Harrison, who
would make pledges about nothing else, solemny
pledged HIMSELF in letter to Tennessee, that lie would
not remove a man for opinion sake, no matter how
Richmond Virginia, (wherc prescription Of ofiice-hod-
ers had been the loudest outcy against Gen Jackson
and boldly took the ground first taken by Mr. Clay in
1894 that the President had constitutional power to
remove man from Office.
What do we now see the result of this SO jealous.
ly preached political faith, when about TO be reduced
to praciice' Harrison, who magnanimouslv came
forward and threw the shield Of his sacred VOW over
every Office holder 10 make him secure in the enjoy
ment Of his pace-Alessrs. Clay and Webster, who
declared that he was entitled by the Constitution to
retain it unless ousted by conviction upon charges
for delinquency, are 10 be in the CON
troll of power in all branches of the Government And
what evidence do their adherenis give of belief in the
sincerity of the professions OF this new-nade trumv.
rate on the subec, of prescription: There are, at this
moment in Washington, four or FIVE applicants for
every Office in the Government, although now occu-
pied! These Office hating men, who themselves denoun.
ced all oiceho'dng throughout the canvass, are the
active instruments of the chiefs whose denunciatons
of prescription Of the distributions Of the spols-they
echoed from end of the continent the other; and
they all here, and claiming their shares
exorably than Shylock his pound of flesh The
heart And what will expounders of the Consti.
tut on (Cay and Webster) say to these demands, 10
allow which, they have already said, would wound the
vitals of the Government: What will the benevolent
Harrison, who would not touch (before the electon)