Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-07-30

We copy the following article at length
from the National lntcligencer. We could
do no less to do it justice, and it is so trium-
phant vindication of the course of the Adj
ministraton, and such com plcte rctu,ation
of the clamcrous and grossly inconsistent
charges of the Tory prints, that we feel in
manner compelled to give it place.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE
OPPOSITION.
From the following paragraph, which we find
transferred to the columns of the Richmond En-.
qulrcr from kindred print, and from other pub
locations of like import in that and other papers.
we find that the cry of PRESCRIPTION is now re-
he'd upon, by those whom the People have re.
jecled, as an argument against the present Re-
publican Administration Of the Government :
"IHE HtiLLoTINE STILL STREAMS WITH
BLOOD! We learn that G. Clinton Veazey,
relation OF Ex-Governor Vcazev, of Calculating
memory, John Showacre, and Joseph owen,
formerly keeper Of the Penitentiarv. have been
appointed lnspe ctors Of Customs of Baltimore
All these are active partisans thus classifying
the record of the Proclamation recently issued
by the immaculate Dan.--'Off with their heads
is the command, and the eXccutioncr performs
the Office !'--Bahimore Argus.
= ould not such language az this, in the
mouth OF one OF the spos-men, be the sublime
OF Impotence! Is not its repetition, by the En-
qulrer, with full knowledge Of its injustice and
nappllcabllIty, gross imposition upon the con-
hdehce and easy faith of its readers "The gull
otne streams with blood" SAYS the Argus.
1.-The guillotine streams with blood !" echoes
the Enquirer. Now what are the facts which
have provoked this extravaganty iiguratve ey-
clamation- this appalling and horrid screech (!
Why, three individuals have been appointed
Inspectors OF the Customs for the port of Balti-
more, one OF whom is relation of Governor
Neazcy and, being related to Governor, is
wisely deemed to he unfit to inspect the customs;
and another OF whom, having been keeper OF the
PenItentary, is OF course disqualified for guard.
Ing the revenue from frauds by those who de-
serve TO be tenants of that useful establishment.
Such Is the implication Of the paragraph, if it
have any meaning at all. 1t is not pretended,
the reader will perceive, that the persons who
have been superseded by these appointments
ought not to have been superseded, and still
less that they had not been "actIve partisans,"
or that they had not earned inspectors wages
by Inspecting something else besides ''the
customs"
tits notorious, perfectly notorious, that per-
sons have been employed as custom house Off
GERS atall the large ports by the late Admnistra.
ton, and paid as such, whose only W rk per-
formed for their hire was party work. To such
an extent has this been carried that there have
been cases of persons paid as custom-house Off
GERS, under one name or other, who never even
made visit to the custom house the whole wear
round, and have been discovered by their near
est neighbors to be pensioners upon the Public
only by the fortuitous publication of the List OF
Inspectors, &c. attached to the Custom-house
Whether the persons removed from inspec-
torships at Baltimore were of this class, or for
what cause they were removed. we know not.
Having full confidence in the discretion of the
collector of the port of Baltimore, we have not
the least doubt that it was for good cause. But
for whatever cause they were removed with
what grace could the friends of the late Admit
nistration raise the hue and cry of Prescription
upon the occasion of removals from office, were
they ten times as many as they have been, (av,
ten times tenn and all without any other cause
than the pleasure Of the ruling power! We do
not. and never can, approve oi Prescription, in
the true sense of the term in the sense in which
it existed, as system, and an effectual feature
of the administration of the Government, during
the last twelve years, at one period more and at
another less tyranncally, but always more or
less. We have seen it prevail to such an ex-
tent within the circle of this city, (and it pre-
vailed not less elsewhere,) that persons either
holding or seeking public employment did not
dare to hold converse, and scarcely to exchange
saln,st tons, in Duhlc with nerso,s Of opposite