The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-07-24
REMOVALS AND APPOINTMENTS.

1t is not strange that the piteous wang of persons
who have been removed from Office by the present
Administration, either for ncqmpeency, or, as is more
often the case for grossly improper interference the
party politics of the country and the lachrymose arti.
ces occasionally served up in the Glcbe either in the
form of communications from the poor suffering inno-
cents themselves in the editorial. of that print
should excite something Of sympathy among all per-
sons possessed of ordinary human feelings. But we
must be allowed to say that however much such feel
ings honor the hearts of those whol entertain them,
they ought not to be allowed to interfere with the
strict and equabe discharge of the imperative duties
in this regard of the President and heads of Depart
men,s
1t is not to be supposed for moment that removals
from offices made without cause, the persons
removed would have believe, of the suf.
feng saints would represent because they have only
done their duty too ,ce-for in nine out of ten
the locofoco oiice-holders both in Washington and
throughout the country, oficio and by condi-
ton and contract, demagogues and party managers.
In almost every town and village, the post Offices
custom houses, and land Offices if the incumbents
where they situated happened as usually the
case, to be friendly TO the late Administration
openly used and known the political headquarters
of all the small beer politicians, and party hacks in
the region round about There their private meetings
and caucuses always held and if any such tr-
fling matters blank paper and Irvine" were need
ed in the course of their party operations, my Go
vernment" was always able to furnish them; if money
was needed, assessment upon the salaries of these
Office holders was always ready means of raising it,.
Were paitizan circulars and documents to be circula
ted postage free, at the expense of impoverished
Post Office Department postmasters and their depu
ties and clerks throughout the country and others in
the Departments here head quarters were always at
hand to fold and frank and direct them with materials
belonging to the Government and during the hours
which they were paid for, and bound to employ in
working for the public. Were the letters papers and
documents, of Wings to be detained or opened, viii
ains in Office We're always ready TO do the deed
Were white voters to be challenged bullied and
driven away from the polls, custom house officers
de-w alters posnasters, and their hired menias and
assassins were always hand, to do the bidding of
those upon whose reelection their fate depended
Was necessary to throw dust in the eyes OF the
people, in order to convince them that in Disappearing
the sub Treasury or any other scheme for ensaving
them by fIst making them beggars, they were acting
without knowledge such emissares as your John
sons, and Tappans, and Aliens and Garands, and
myriads of other small intelgences" in office high
and low, were always at hand, to insult the under
standing and moral of the community by their
absurd sophstry and Iowved appeals to all the base
passions in Others by which they themselves were ac-
tun,ed.
And shall it now be said, that when some of the
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rum upon the land, and In keeping the peopen bond
age, punderng or allowing others plumber the trea-
sues of the nation drawn from the earnings the pco-
pie themselves, roting and rolling in luxury and wealth
and in the midst Of all their tawdry spendor shocking
the common sense Of the community by calling them
selves tho exclusive Democrats Of the country and
denouncing their honest and industrious opponent. as
Arstocrats" -defaming every of talents who
dared oppose Misunderstanding the memory of the
dead, and attempting to destroy the hard earned mill
tary renown of our glorious Republic-shall it be
said we ask, that when these are removed from the
places they have dsgraced and desecrated that cold
booded hard hearted prescription" is at work with
the bloody gulotine ~
We wish to justice and the strict requirements Of
duty fully carried out Justice tempered with mercy
ou' ie' 'e CONSIDERATION o tne mercy Waich Is cue 10
the feelings of an nsuted and suffering people be
forgotten. Let it be that mercy which prevails on the
judicial bench, and which never interferes with
lemn duty and justice. Let ii be the mercy which
every man shows to a servant who has allowed his az
fairs to 60 to ruin who has for years robbed and
plundered his too confdng employer.
he quality Of magnanimity" exercised towards
those who notwithstanding their contemplate obse-
quiousness If they still had the power, would cut the
thross Of those who have just dsarmed them, s too