The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-23
From the Harrisburg htslkgsae1
REMOVALS AGAIN,

Ia our last we undertook to show, that not only
yolicy, but proprety and justice, demand of every
Administration to sustain its friends in order to car
nv out its measures We commended that the President
would find himself betrayed at every step, II sur
rounded by enemies, in the performance of his duty
and that magnanimity TO ungrateful political Toes
was out Of pace-subversive OF unity in the ma
chlnery in the Government reward IN sycophancy
and treachery, and unjust to political friends. In
proof of this we adverted to the embarrassment OF
the administration of President Tyler by those now
in office, remarking that out OF more than one hun
dred Custom-house officers, and thousand rost
masters in Pennsylvania, zoe kneiD Of NOT Owe
HONEST SUPPORTER Of the administration
We also called upon our readers To notice the NOR
tfyng fact that Congressional faction, opposed to the
nomination of Gen. Harrison, having by an intrigue
procured the appointment oil the retired Cabinet
exerted all its influence to PREVENT THE AP-
POINTMENT OF any man to ONCE VINO had advo-
Gated and urged the nomination OF Gen. Harrison
against the pretensons of MIR. Clay. This Cabinet,
contrary to all precedent persuaded the honest and
unsrspecting old General, to submit all his appoint
ments to a vote in Cabinet Council, thus making an
irresponsible Cabinet the appointing power and crea
ting secret nquisition where the character ana
reputation of his old friends put to the torture,
and they sacrificed, unless fealty was sworn TO the
| "Heir presumptipe." ~,
This was proved by reference to the fact that the
whole body of Gen. Harrison's supporters IN Penn
sylyana whose energy procured his NOMINATION., III
opposition to the Philadelphia faction, were peculiar
| y marked out objects Of sacrifice by the IRE med
| Cabinet"
/ Every avenue TO the President was blocked up.
spies and calumnators stationed IN every pupc
place to blast the prospects, and lessen the claims OF
/ those whom the people had recommended for oihc,a
eulogistc harangues delivered by
Philadelphia lawyers, in Cabinet meetings, IN when
Gen. Harrison did not participate in favor OF the can
dda.es of the cabal. II, however, single Harrison
man passed through this fiery furnace unscathed, u
lras only 10 be rejected by the Senate!
| Mr.. Tyler came into power lie abolished tue
Cabinet inqusition, and although at first deceived
and betrayed, through his unsuspecting honesty, III
his appointments he has most justly driven the conspFa
tors from. his confidence and his councils he STILL now
ever owes one duty to himself, to justice, and M
injured country and that is to speedily cleanse ever,
department of the Government from the foul leprosl
that defles it, His administration has been conducted
with great wisdom. AT time of great Commercial
and financial distress-succeding to Government de
pressed by embarrassments and debt-involved IN al
expensive and disgraceful Indian war-threalenet
with hostilities the part OF Great Brtaln-with
Treasury empty and the receipts from the customs
lessening in consequence of MIR. Clay's and Mr. Gal
houns Compromise bill, he has devised measures t
conquer all these difficulties.
Why them our readers will ask is the President s.
violently assailed2 1t is not account of his mea
sures-it is not because he does not support his hon
est friends but it is because he will not become tn
instrument of the faction that Disguised the peopl
of the whole Union, before the dismissal of tn
"retired Cabinet