Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-29
RICH MOND.
THURSDAY MORNING.. ApRIL 40.
"SHEDDING BLooD,"-.a Chapter ON pre-

s'tPtoh.
The National In,ellieeneer is engaged in the YER
hopeless task of satisfying the Enqu Of the pic
priety of removals in certain cases, and sustain
itself by an irresistible array OF examples, and re.
soning drawn from the files OF the Globe and o,he
papers. Ii will have its labor for its pains. Mess,
Gales Seaton shall never convince our neighbo
OF the propriety of removing Loco Foeos. II the,
will invert the process, and let the Locos proscrib
Wings, they shall be rewarded with the tacit o
open appreciation Of the consistent editor.
The lntelligencer makes the following extraordi
nary exhibit, for which we claim emphatic alien
ton:
"within few months of the first year of IN,
Jackson Administration, persons were removed, ia
ninety nine cases ost OF a hundred merely on &c.
count Of their political sentiments, from host OF OF
hees, of which the following is but partial emu.
meratior; that is to say
Fifteen Ministers Pleripotentisry, Cha-ge d'Af.
flares, and Secretaries of Legation.
Nine Marshals and fifteen Urited States Attor.
neys.
Forty-eght Collectors and Principal Revenue
Officers.
Nine Indian Agents and Navy Agents.
Twenty'slx Receivers and Registers Of Land
Offices.
Twenty one Consuls for foreign ports
-Four hundred and ninety one Posimasters.
BESIDES these direct removals from Office by the
Executive, there was a host of removals of such
persons as held Office by secondary appointments,
such as clerks, inspectors, sc. in the Custom.
house, whom we have no means Of numbering
we have statement before US, however, which
may afford the reader some idea of the extent of
those removals. Ia the custom house at Boston
a'ene, out OF fifty eight persons employed in differ
ent capacities forty were removed In ALL there
were removed from office, of all grades Of civil off,
GERS, within the htst year of the jackson Admins
traton, more than too thousand men.
How misplaced and III timed, after this exhibit
must not the wang OF the Enquirer, over the three
inspectors whom It has been thought eXpedieni TO
remove at the Baltimore usiom-house, appear 10
every unprcjudced reader!"
TWO THOUSAND GUlLLOTINED by
Jackson within his first year! What would the
antedIluvian readers Of the Enquirer say if they
were TO hear Of the factl o. "a Wing lie" Of
eourse-unless their truth loving patron saint Of
the Enquirer was to assure them it was so. VIVA,
would induce him TO publish it, though record proof
was brought to establish every instance and though
IL lie public information beSling upon important
questions OF the dnyl Nothing. He would never
have the room 10 spare for ii.
Here then was the Jackson practice-hrst intro.
dueed by that essential iyrant-openly applauded
by the bulk of his party and party presses-nsrer
complained Of but once by the Enquirer and then in
tones gentle and almost inaudible-reioced in. e.
ui'ed over, insoenty justified, by the official expo
nents of the era of Tyranny-and neio ,ohai do
zoe behold! President TyL,r has made some thirty
or forty removals for cause, and if they did no,
daily see IL, could intelligent men believe that these
very same People, the identical individuals who
most DANGEROUSLY aPpauded the merciless proscrip.
tiOnS NJ Tyra,,, IL.
hement in their denuncia,ions of MIR Tyler? Is not
"uuIh stranger than fctionl" Did audaci,y ever
60 the same lengths, or prohgacy exhibit equal
shameessHessl The "guilotine streams with
blood" they eXcaim. Will John TYLER shed w m.
selden's btOodl quoth the Enquirer. The Albany
Argus raves, the Evening Post and New Era rant,
The Baltimore Republican cries. Blair and Richie
moraiiEe, and from end Of the Continent 10 The other
the whole s'ye is an uproar! "Dld you ever,p
The Presidents sgacity will easily detect IN. dc.
syn Of this yelling concert and his nerve con,emn
1t. The design is 10 stop the prOgrts, of reform
among the cties-hold RS by intimidating him. and
10 retain as many parizlns of the exploded dynasty
as possible IN place, 10 assist from those posts Of adj
vantage future Loco Foco operations. The Pres.
dents path OF good faith TO the country, honor and
principle, lies straight before him. Touch no Office
holder who has done his duty, and no more than
his duty. Remove all who came in as mere nsr,;
Fans, or being n have prosttu,ed the Offices Of the
country TO partnership proved iai,hless TO the
pubic interests; and this not from vindciive feel
inss-no' from party in,oerance-nott to make place,
for irends-but for the service of the People and
The preservation Of the liberty OF the American Peo
pie. Let him spurn the threats and entreaties, the
caJoiins and the denuncintons, the coi1ing and bull
lying OF those we have enumerated, as he would the
deceit, iasehood and insincerty Of which they are
the prototypes. So doing he will NEE, the hi,b.s,
rewards which this world can bestow-the spprobs.
ton Of his conscience and of his country.