The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-16
RRMoyALs AND APPOINTMENTS.

REMOVALS AND APPOINTMENTS
h has always Been our deliberate and honest
conviction that al ofiice-holders in the employ
Of the General Government, who avow their
political hostility to the head Of that Govern
ment, aud strive to njure and ruin the one u
whose will they hold their stations, should
without regard to persons or stations, be DIS
missed from office. The nature Of our insti'u-
tons demands lit is due to the character and
fame Of every President The direction OF
events now flowing on will accomplish IT,
But there are many difficulties in the way oil
a speedy contamination Of so desirable an oo-
ject The President and heads Of Depart
ments, of course, have no personal knowledge
of the merits of the many thousand applicants.
or Of the demerits of thousands in Office charg-
ed with open hostility to the Administration
This is very great difficulty, and the more so
since most Of the Wing members of Congress
have arrayed themselves against the Execu-
tive, and many of the Democratic members
have most unaccounIabIy neglected the wishes
OF their constituents, who have entrusted their
applications to them.
Thus, at glance. the reason is very obvious
why so many unworthy incumbents have been
suffered TO remain uRmolested, and so many
honest and capable applicants have been disap-
pointed. Precipilate action is generally attend
ed with error and several instances Of decep-
ton and imposition having already occurred, it
followed, of course, that many contemplated
changes were postponed by the Executive, that
undoubted information could be obtained. Many
friends Of the Administration have manifested
much impotence at this delay (now nearly ter
minated without taking into consideration that
there are some fifty thousand offices in the
United States and only one man, aided by
half dozen Cabinet ministers to decide upon the
claims of applicants! Besides, the Depart
men,s are literally crammed with the appca-
tons and recommendations Of those on the eve
disappointment when the Clay Cabinet ministers
were driven from the guillotine, which, though
many of them certainly deserve to be summari-
ly disposed of, vet they must all be preserved
and examined New applications falling among
this rubbish, are, like needles in a ay-stack,"
difficult TO be found. Thus we see the neces-
sity Of applicants having their friends on the
spot to attend to their interests-of being repre-
sented by those whom both they and the ap-
pointing power can rely on. We have devoted
all the time we could abstract from our business
hours, to the service of distant friends and cor
respondents, and will continue to do so most
cheerfully, and we may be supposed to have
some knowledge of the difficulties under which
the inexperienced applicant labors, who has no
one interested in his behalf at Washington.
But by far the most pleasing to US is the oc-
casonul occurrence Of an opportunity to serve
some true and faithful ofice-holder, whose po-
lilical enemies are endeavoring to ruin him by
means of base deception and reckless misrepre-
sentation. A marked instance of this kind oc-
Cured few weeks since. One of our best
friends, and one of the best officers in the coun
try, than whom no one could be more anxious
for the success of the 'true principles of the
Government" was charged, in a communica-
ton signed Iby score of the citizens of the
place where he resided with being guilty Of off,
cial misconduct, and with being an ''active
brawlinR, Clay partisan" Knowing that it was
IdtSc, VIC POCuICu TIE HdtucS vi Tue SiSucIS anu
sent them to HIM. He immediately procured
and sent us afidavits proving the sgners were all
rabid Clay men, and the one recommended
to supersede him the editor o fan abolition Clay
paper! And these men had styled themselves
Democratic Republicans! We need not say our
friend was saved the fatigue and expense of
trip TO Washington. OF course it would have
been difficult to deceive the sagacious states
man at the head Of The Department, but
the inevitable delay in the investigation, incl
dent to the great multiplicity of business in the
office, might have subjected the innocent indi-
vidual to much painful anxiety and suspense.
There are many incidents and "reminiscences
connected with the subject of removals and APP
continents, which, if not uninteresting to our
readers, we may be induced TO give hereafter.