The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-05-01
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FOR THE MADIsoNIAN

THE GLOBE ON PRESCRIPTIONS
The effrontery and impudence of the Globe have
become almost proverbia The defeat of the party to
which he belongs to have given additional acer-
bity to the native maignity Of the galvanized corpse
that conducts it, and to have added increased fury
the madness that controls him. The editor has dealt
in fasehood long that his moral faculty has become
deranged and appears to be impossible for him
to distinguish between the true and the false His
impudence has ceased to produce the least astonsh
ment, and is beginning to be absolutely ridiculous
When he undertakes to lament over what he callsthe
prescription of the present Administration, and the
removal of his very melorious and innocent political
friends, who have BEEN or are 10 be, thrown out of
Office for their violent partisanshp, neglect of duty,
and open interference with the freedom of elections,
one can scarcely tell whether to laugh or be sad.
There is evidently want Of originality in the jere
maids in which he indulges, and it would seem il
he had been carefully perusing the National Republic
can papers of 1929 and had seized upon and employed
the complaints uttered by the Wing journals Of that
day, when the real prescription of jackson car
red to such extent to make the land pale" and
to claim for the rule of the ronwled despoI the very
just designation of the regn of terror In short
year tioo thousand men were unceIemoniously 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 ndulging their opinions and perhaps, giving those
opinions utterance, though they had not interfered
discharged their official duties. The brawling pol-
clan was put in and the useful officer turned out,
against whom, in nine cases out of ten, scarcely
objection, moral official, could be urged These
removals, moreover, were made in the most summary
and unfeeling manner. The prescribed were rudely
thrown out and to justify the act falsely charged
with peculation fraud drunkenness, &C., &c, and
afterwards prosecuted by the Administration. Can
these men now have the assurance to complain and
murmur, after having been guilty of the injustice
have mentioned, and ever since fed at the public
pense while those whose places they wrongfnly seized
left to staIve in the elegant language Of the
gan of that day, Ito root hog die is utterly abb
surd and impudent to talk about the cruelty Of
moving from office the very men that advocated the
system in 1929, and have justified it ever since Even
handed justice has commended, at last the poisoned
chalce to their own lips. 1t is their own doctrine,
and habituay illustrated during the preceding admin
strations and their complaints calculated TO
excite contempt, rather than sympathy The truth is,
the existing Administration has not gone half far
enough. The evil first introduced by Jackson,
at the instance it was said of Van Buren, and can
not now be stopped, without doing nlasest injustice
to those who have been labong for REFORM and espe
ciay to such have been prescribed by the former Adj
ministrations. 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 wronged and injured are
still to be excluded from public employment The
thing is too absurd and TO be countenanced
for moment The great principle Of restoration
aVOWeu Dy 1en. ItuTISOn SnOulu De aunereu 10, ana
its abandonment will be great political error as well
absolute injustice Ii is nothing more than sheer
justice because II is but restoring the injured that
of which they have been wrongtully deprived, while
it thus rebukes and condemns the original of pro-
scrpon. II is principle obviously right and pro-
per that object To complain of its opera
ton, and to abandon it would be do palpabe wrong
and TO disappoint public expectation. Ii the Loco
Foco ofhceholders are not to be removed, the Wings
will be justly chargeable with falsehood inasmuch as
they have for the last twelve years. attributed corrup
ton and prohigacy to the preceding Administrations
and now to retain the very agents who employed
by them to work out their nquities, would certainly
look very much il these charges had been founded
in falschood The people require reform IL it be
not effected they will have abored 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 parti-
atty, or prejudice The suerings Of the past must be
remembered as well as the complaints and groans of
the present No sympathy was felt for their friends
In 1879 when this system first introduced. Men
We're then treated as if they had sensibity, and
turned out 10 sarve or beg without merc and often
with apparent gratfication--and can the men for
whom they were thus treated and turned out now have
the efrontery to complain when the day of Teributon
mas arrived3 That those men were removed de-
servedy as asserted by the Globe is deliberate false
| hood Not one in hundred was guilty of the 1.-THE
OF the crminality and delinquency of many who were
afterwards appointed The superannuated Nav
worm who has been recently so bezzcned with praise
by the Globe and who obtruded his unwelcome pre-
scnce upon the dying President in his last agonies to
wiring from him his consent be continued in office
which he has held for twelve years obtained that very
Office by gross subserviency and turning out more
meritorious man.. The mantle Of religion under which
he shelters his hypocrisy and love of money will not
shield him from the scorn Of indignant community,
for thus disturbing the dying moments Of Gen. Harri-
son, and brutality endeavoring to exor from his lips
expression of appreciation to be communicated to
his successor. President Tyler should, as have no
doubt he will strike him at once from the roll Of off
GERS and thus stamp the seal Of repobaon conduct
dsgraceul to the character Of any man. and especially
Of who Processes be follower Of the meek and
lowly SAVIOUR Of the world
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