Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1842-09-30
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THE PRESIDENT EXPOSING HIM
SELF-MORE PLEDGES
VIOLATED,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1S42.
"yNe potroaage incident to The Prcsid'

s'IHc patronage "cfto'' W ''''
tial office is increasing. THE Hnrcstrd'"ed
po,ccr erertcd by sELrIsnLY AMBITIOUS
MAN, in Order 10 perpctudte has authority or
10 hand it Oco to some tdvorite as his suc-
ceSS0r, MAY LEAD TO THE EMPLOYMENT or
ALI. THE MEANS WITHIN HIS CONTROL TO
ACCOMPLISH MS DJEcT."-PrcSidcnt Ty-
hr's address TO the people, AprH 9, 1871.
" ,oiH rcmore no incumbent from office,
mko has faithfully and honestly dcq~ttcd
himself Of The duties IF his c6icc. Ibid
Such were the promises of President Ty-
Ter on taking the Executive chair. He has
waited for the adjournment of the Senate,
and then proceeded most shamefully to violate
his pledges and prostitute federal patronage.
Read the following facts. A few days after
President Tyler took Office, the Hon Jona-
than Roberts recommended to him friend
O.. for the Office of Collector at the port Of
Philadelphia. The President replied, as
follows, comforting that Office, unOsked, up
on MIR. Roberts himself:
- . WAsmNcToN, April 10, ISL,
"My dear Sir Your letter is before me
and has been read by me with all the respect
which | sincerely feel for your character and
past services. i recognise in you my elder
in that political school to the advancement
pfthe principles of which, we have alike de-
voted anxious days and nights. The re-
GREETED death of General Harrison has cast
deep gloom over the country, and has been
more painfully felt by myself than any other,
because not only of the strong personal ties
which existed between US, but because of
the high and delicate responsibilities which
it has devolyed upon me, How shall ac-
quit myself in The discharge of the duties of
my high office, depends, under Providence,
to be yet seen. | rejoice that among the
first acts of my Presidential life, is that of
comforting Office OH true and sound patriot,
such as you are. The mail which bears
you this, will also convey to you commits
sion as Collector of the Port of Philadelphia
Your disnterestedness in recommending an
other, who, | should have been very happy
to have obliged, has wrought no injury to
yourself knew you would not ask Office,
,hut acted on the ground that if you had
merits, they would be known TO the appoint
ing power. Besides, my dear sir, the warm
personal contests which this Office has created
in Philadelphia, seemed to me to render il
proper to leave neither triumph or a defeat
have, therefore, obeyed not ouly the sug-
ges.ions Of luy feelings, but sound policy. in
making the appointment You will. 1
donbt not, by somewhat equal distribution
Of your favors, reconcile the friends of all
the parties. Mr.. Badger and Mr., Tyson
have been the warmest contestants. They
may have made promises in anticipation of
success to particular persons, who you may
quiet by carrying them out. merely make
you suggestions as from one friend to an
other, to be adopted by you as your judgment
may dictate. have one wish, confess,
and it is that Governor Shulze should have
the place of Principal Weigher--an Office,
The duties of which are light, and the III
come Of some moment to him
Be pleased to accept, my dear sir, assur-
,ances OF my great respect, confidence and
Friendship, IS ....'.
l,.m.,. .. JOHN TYLER,
Hon. JONATHAN ROBERTS.
Mr.. Roberts entered upon the duties of
his Office on the 2lst oftApril, and on the
9th forwarded list Of his appointments to
the Treasury Department; from the head
ofwhich, Mr.. Ewing, he received on the
9Th OF May an unreserved approval of the
list, with renewed assurances of confidence.
On the 10th Of May he received from the
President himself the same assurance. and
promise that no ear should be given TO in
curious reports or insinuatons, such having
already been whispered about the chief mag
istrate; and in a personal interview on the
18th tho IF E,nI,,o., u
confidence was unreseryedly employed.
At about this time collision between
the President and the Wings in Congress
was evidently approaching, intimations were
thrown out by the Madisonian and the New
York Herald, that there was disahection to
the President among the Custom House
officers at Philadelphia, and that some of.
them must be removed To all this, howev-
er Mr.. Roberts paid little heed, keeping
himself as much as possible aoof from par
tizanshp, and devoting all his time and
power to the duties of his office.
In April 1912 the ominous foretokeninqs
OF the Presidential organs were renewed,
and with such an official air that MIR. Rob
erts thought it advisable to write to the
president, expressing a wish for personal
interview in which he might give an account
OF his Stewardship. On the Both of that
month he received from the Secretary of the
Treasury, MIR. Forward, the following note
from President Tyler:
WASHINGTON, April 9th, t842.
"Sir-l have to request that the follow
ing changes be made in the Custom House
at Philadelphia, to take effect on the first
day OF May. 1t is required for reasons
satisfactory to myself, and connected with
the administration of the Government af-
fairs, viz:
lHnrn calla.. IL q, q.