The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-26
From The Mar Orleans Herald
REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.
We find in the National Intelgencer the following
passage on the subje Of removals from Office 4:

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We find in the National Intelligencer the following
passage on the subject Of removals from othce
.'If there can be any abuse in the administration
of government more worthy than another OF repro
baton and condemnation, II is the removal from pub
lie employment Of competent, honorable, and faith
lul citizens for the mere purpose OF putting GER
tain amour tSoi public moLey and patronage into The
pockets of plant political taitisans, who possess no
better qualifications than the persons displaced by
them, who have every thing TO learn which the M
cumbentS already know, and whose fidelity, if unsus-
pected has not been tried and proved as that OF the
removed incumbents has been"
The above paragraph alludes particularly TO re-
movals made by John Tyler aud athou4 ms defence
forms part Of our duty s,ll, in justice we cannot
refrain from coming TO his aid when assailed by such
an enemy The National lntelligencer is the avowed
organ Of Henry Clay at the Capital Is 1t far, then
Is II manly, for that journal to censlre President ~
Ter for dismissng from Office political parssns whose
entire course has been Of detraction Of the pre-
sent Government and whose principal aim TO cast
rdiculo upon the Executive when their great cham
pion has boldly declared that shoulc the Government
change hands IN IA, tiat II would become necessary
to make entire change, clean sweep OF all OH
cial incunbents. We venture TO say that should
Henry Clay be elected President of the Unit States,
In lSi4-a calamity from which implore Heaven
TO protect us-that the doctrine of prescription would
be carried in higher perfection than was ever be-
fore conceived yet his immediate organ and mouth
n,eGe. with all the gravity which should characterize
world, complaiunr, in the most doleful strains OF
President Tyler for dJlng the very act which that
Journal would be the first TO urge upon tier immac-
uaie leader, and for the performance of which they
would be loudest IN shouting their plaudts. O, con-
sstency, thou art jewel, and Wing consistency a
jewel rarely TO be met with that It's very rarity
should render It priceless.
We do no, recollect have seen any articles like
the above, when iiarrisonan prescription swept over
the land like tornado, prostrating almost every
uhcc-hudcr from Maine 60 Louisiana who had not
bowed the knee and shouted paans to the boupdcs,,
matches virtue OF that same I'd coon - when
Custom Houses were rlnsackcd until every honest,
independent oicer, who, from principle, had refused
to fall down and worship the los cabin which the
coons had set up, was inundated the altar Of par
~ when the accomplished and elegant aboli,ionist
Granger, carried OF a war OF extermination against
the poor unfortunate Postma,tcrs until scarcely one
left to relate his hair breadth scapes aud all for
the purpose of rewarding souless partisans who
lhrouged the capital like hungry wolves around a
dead dill this same journal, if our me-
mory serves, utter word of complaint or make
single remontrauc when the work Of reform , was
being carried on in the different departments at the
capital itself To such extent that the headman's
hand had TO be stayed, IN order prevent a perfect
cessation OF business, from incompetent persons
cupying all the Offices
Had MIR. Clays organ at that time demonstrated
against the improperly Of such course; had it
rlscd It's voice against political prescription or the
injustice OF the abuse of Executive paronage then
indeed, we might have yielded II credit for sim
cerlly but no. there never an oyster more dumb
than the entire Wbig press, when all these scenes
were being enacted, aud venture TO assert that
such would have been the TO this day had John
Tyler trusted bis conscience IN the safe keeping OF
the Mil Boy Of the Slashes," instead Of yenturug
without asking his consent, 10 think and act for him
self
How contemplate, thcn for a journal occupying
so high position ia It's party, TO descend TO make
capital from alleged abuses which, whether imagina.
ry or real form Of the cardinal doctrines Of their
party, whose immediate organ il is acknowledged to
be.