The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-09-28
From the .Meu Orleans Herald
REMOVAL FROM OFFICE.


We find in the National Intelligencer the following
passage on the ubject Of removals from office
| If there can be any abuse in the administration
of government more worthy than another of repro
baton and condemnation, it is the removal from pub
lie employment of competent honorable, and faith
iul citizens, for the purpose Of putting GER
tain amount of public morley and patronage into the
pockets of plant political ta tisans, who possess no
better qualifications than the persons displaced by
them, who have every thing to learn which the in
cumbents already know, and whose fidelity, if unsus-
pected has not been tried and proved that of the
removed incumbents has BEEN"
The above paragraph alludes particularly to re-
movals made by John Tyler and although his defence
forms no part of our duty, STILL in justice, we cannot
refrain from coming to his aid when assaied by such
an enemy. The National lntegencer is the avowed
organ of Henry Clay at the Caplta is it fair then,
is it manly for that journal to President Ty-
Ter for dsmssing from Office political partisans whose
entire course has been Of detracton of the pre-
sent Government, and whose principal aim to cast
ridcule upon the Executive; when their great cham
pion has boldly declared that should the Government
change hands in IA, that it would become necessary
to make entire change, clean sweep of all Off
cial incumbents We venture to say that should
Henry Clay be elected President of the United States,
in lS44-a calamity from which we mplore Heaven
to protect us-that the doctrine of prescription would
be carried out In higher perfection than ever be-
fore conceived yet his immediate organ and mouth
piece with all the gravity which should characterize
truth, sends forth its piteous lamentations to the
world, complaining, in the most doeful strains, of
President Tyler for doing the very act which that
journal would be the first to urge upon tier mmac-
ulate leader, and for the performance of which they
would be loudest in shouting their paudts. ., con-
sstency thou art jewel, and Wing consistency a
jewel rarely to be met WITH that its very rarity
should render it priceless.
We do not recollect to have any articles like
the above, when Harrsonan prescription swept over
the land like tornado prostrating almost every
| Office holder from Maine to Louisiana, who had not
bowed the knee and shouted paans to the boundless,
matchless virtue of that same old coon;' when
Custom Houses were ransacked until every honest,
independent officer, who, from principle, had refused
to g fall down and worship the log cabin which the
coons had set up, inundated the altar of par
y when the accomplished and elegant abolitionst,
Granger carried of determination against
the poor unfortunate Postmasters until scarcely
left to relate his hair breadth 'scapes and all for
| the purpose of rewarding souless parsans who
lhronged the capital like hungry wolves around a
dead carcass nor did this same journal, if
mory serves utter word of complaint make
single remonstr trance, when the work of reform
being carried in the different departments at the
capital itself to such extent, that the headmans
hand had to be stayed, in order to prevent perfect
cessation of business, from incompetent persons oc
! cupying all the Offices
! Had Mr.. Clay's organ at that time demonstrated
| against the improTiety Of such course; had il
raised its voice against political prescription the
injustice of the abuse of Executive patronage then
indeed, we might have yielded it credit for sin
cery but no there never was an oyster more dumb
than the entire Wing press, when all these scenes
were being enacted and we venture to assert that
such would have been the case to this day had John
Tyler trusted his conscience in the safe keeping Of
the Mill Boy of the Slashes" instead of venturing
without asking his consent, to think and act for him
self.
! How contemplate, then, for journal occupying
so high position in its party, to descend to make
capital from alleged abuses, which, whether imagina.
ny real, form of the cardinal doctrines of their
party whose immediate organ it is acknowledged to
he