The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-05

cunstdhces anu condltlon oil tnlngS In the spheie
OF which Deity has ordained human nature TO
move. That man who would in the Executive
chair, thus yield himself to be not merely the
prey, but the sport and mockery also Of his enc
mics, In the expectation Of adding thereby to
the purity OF Government or of his Adminislra-
ZION, would richly deserve the fate that would
most surely overwhelm him, and die, both OH
cally and physically,
Unwept, unhonord, and unsung."
True II is, the patronage Of Government be-
longs TO no one man, TO be welded for his indl-
vldual aggrandzement. But, true il is, that the
patronage of the Government, in the beginning,
progress. and ending Of its designs, consti-
tutes the ways and means wherewith the prncl-
Piles and policy of the Government imbodied
in It's Administration for the time being, are 10
be sustained and defended and he who makes |
that patronage in any degree subservient TO
defeat or hindrance of the free operation and
full consummation of those principles and that
policy OF administration, is recreant 10 his Off
cial obligations, and an enemy 10 the Govern
ment for the time being If one in office be
conscientlously an enemy-if, in the honesty
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Government, as administered, he ought to retire
from office voluntarily and manfully exert his IN
fuence in favor Of a change IN the Administra-
ton If he will not do this, neither from self
respect, nor from respect to the great principle
that epe1y influence Of the Erecutire Gorerm-
mem ought 10 hdrmonize IN carrying out the
policy OF the administration, for which the Ere
cutire is being held and is holding himself &C.
countdbie TO The people, such one, and every
such one, ought, in justice, and upon the sound
est principles Of policy, TO be displaced 1t is
not for the aggrandzement Of the man in the
Executive chair, that such a line of duty and
obligation arises for the perpetual observance OF
men holding station under an Administration.
For only such paltry, narrow, personal ends, zoe
/ should scorn the doctrine But It is for the
safety and success Of the grea, principles of po-
lily that are Embodied in the Administration
and which must stand or fall with the Admins
traon, that we assert the doctrine and fear
lessly maintain II, as every Administration
has done, in practice, from the day when our
Federal Constitution was first endowed with
motive power.
Does any man think that the House Of Re-
representatives. or Senate would justify them
selves or stand justified before the county, were
they TO keep subordinate officers, who should
make matter of every day effort to thwart and
bring into dsrepute, were il in the power of
such subordinates to do so, the legislation Of
those branches respectively, or should be inces
sanity pouring forth invectve and ISLANDERS upon
the acts, motives, and characters of the indivi-
dual members?
Does any man believe that the Judiciary de-
partment would feel itself justified in retaining
clerks, or other subordinates, known to be in
cessantly engaged, to the extent Of their oppor-
tunty, in pervertng TIE ends of justice, as adj
minisrered by their courts, or in msrepresent-
ing and bringing into odum the Judicial admin
istrations Of the members of the court?
I And why then is such suicidal submissive
ness to be asked or expected Of the Executive
branch of Government
We desire not to see the patronage Of the
i Government in the hands Of any Executive
brought into conflict with the freedom OF cleo
lions of the people We have President who
disdans the thought of it. We would not up
hold any Executive in sending forth official
minions to persuade, beguie or ntimidate the
free suffrages of the people, The present Elk
ecutive has no such servile instruments But
there is marked difference between doing
this much on the one hand, and repelling on
the other, the assaults of the enemies OF the
Executive Administration assaults that are
designed to destroy it. He who cannot, as
part Of an Administration, conscienuously repel
assaants when approached by them, ought to
! cease to be a part Of such Administration. He
who, on the other hand, as part of an ADM
nistration, is regardless of the proper re-
straints Of official station as TO become himself
an assaing party, 10 coerce or cajole the people
to Weld support to an Administration, Of which
he is part offends less the true line Of official
obligation, and as the President has heretofore
admonished his subordinates such will render
themselves no less obnoxious than the other
class 10 removal from office. Difficult as NAV
be the execution Of even handed justice in all
these matters, we have confidence in The reso
luton otthe present Executive, TO accomplish it
Mistakes doubtlessly, may be made, in acting
upon scale so extended is the official pa
tronage and power of the National Government
Deceplons, too, will be practised under nu-
merous guises. Nay, deceptons gross, un-
principlcd and base, have already been prac-
tised upon the President, in instances within
our knowledge, through the fawning sycophan-
cy and office seeking mania that have actualed
some who now held Office But, the cases of
the kind detected, will in time be properly visit
ed and rcbuked, or we have isjudged the firm
purposes and lofty aim of President Tyler
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