Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-21
RICHMOND WING.
"PROsCRIPTIoN PROsCRIBEp.p


IL has long been manifest that our honest Presi-
den, is 90 excessively Conscientious" that he will
allow nobody to have any conscience except hmse q
and nons are sure Of his favor as they who make
it apparent that they troubled with none Of the
quslms Of that commodity.
His scrupulous Excelleney began, a. now ap-
pears, this monopoly Of delieacy, by an universal
dissinulaton; weeping for tho defeat of him all
whose previous life and principles he now makes
his hireng scribblers blseken.
He gave notice, by proclamation, at none should
be removed from Office for opinions sake and now
his only enquiry, as to a whole set OF officers, is
not whether they have done their duty and complied
with his RUE, bu, "How many Clay men are
,here1"
He avoas that he had determined on dismissinc
all the Secretaries who resigned nay, he is vel
known TO have actually rendered their places tin
GLIDING MIR websier's) to others, while he KEEP, the
riendlies, face towards them. he parts from them.
as all his friends have said for him, only for differ.
enee OF opinion on measure and he retains on.
of them, who declared, only the ether day, that he
ds,pprovcd all his v.tocs, ard holds opposite OPT
Mons on seorly ere'y leading pubic question.
In forming a new Cabinet, he selected men, no.
one OF whom, e1cep, Judge Upshur IA man Of any
or or all doetrin.s) could be pretended TO think as
he did, on the grea, measures to be acted on.
One of these, MIR Spencer. he actually bo1shi
oil. at the frs, bid, from the Convention vhsh he
had 60; up, and whose Address he wrote, to de-
nounce him.
Subsequently,. by every isncminious fact Of open
prevarca,ion Of detected deceit, he has made it
apparent that no honest man can trust him.
While his obiqui,ies have alien,ted all such, his
corrupt folly, his extreme accessibility to ARTERY
even the lowest. have made Aim the dupe, ard pub
lie interests the victim, of every low, every knavish,
every despicabe creature. that idlenes,, besgar-
illness, tho incompeeucy to any thing good, the in
difference to every thing honorable, could cast
from society large, through the wfeched aceesses
of fawning, to lick his feet.
To nothing sincere, nothing OF undisgraced abi-
ties. nothing manly nothing true, nothing that was
not ready sacrifice all self respect and ell public
principle for place and enolumenis, has he for
instant held out encoura cement. He has set deli
hera,e premiums upon baseness, the na,ural supply
| of which was already abundently large; and has
openly constituted into favoured, an exclusive
class, the common disgrace and refuse OF all par
! ties.
Such arc the tokens OF conscience which be gives
u.s. Just now 1.-THE Penusylvani. Elections being
over) he is proceeding with the pretended Reform
in Philadelphi,, arrested, for time, by the ndis
nation excited by the removal of the venerable Ro-
ber,s A more plant Collector now holds the broom
for him, and, at the sign, honest men, against whom
there ia no suspicion, no complaint, are, without
single eh, rge, hurled from their stations to expae
the single offence Of no: 9fsarosing their attach
ment TO him, at the failure OF whose nomination
this very man shed tearsi
The United States Gazette, OF Tuesday, says:
CUSTOM HOUSE CHANGES.-we have
Just received from friend the following list OF rec
movals and appointments in the Custom House to-
day. On Saturday, Arthur Bradish, clerk was
removed, but we have no; learnt who is his lucky
eur