The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-05-22
PRESCRIPTION
TO BE
PRESCRIBED.

No man was to be turned out of office for opin-
ions sake. The only question was to be, "is he
honest, is he capable" All this, it was we'll
known, was contemplate cant and miserable
hypocrisy. For one month before the Presiden.
tial Inauguration, this city was crowded with
office-seekers, loafers, and loungers lean, long,
and lank, TO the number tit was sadly of more
than thirty thousand. know that every public
and private house (and some houses that shall
not nancy were full from garret to cellar; and
filled as the houses were, it was impossible to
walk ten steps at time in the avenue, without
being jostled by some staggering, hungry, fede-
raj loafer. They seemed to have hocked from
every part and every longitude and every lati-
tude, and every zone, torrid, temperate, and
frigid, Of this widespread Union, numerous as
the locusts, the lice, and the fogs of Egypt, and
more devouring and destructive. Old federal.
lists, who have been driven into caves with the
Adamses, where they had slept for forty years,
walked up, and came forth in their moth-riddled,
ANTICIPATED garbs, staggering on their worm-eaten
slaves, dragging their withered, emaciated car
casses, and shaking their gray locks such
la gathering never before was SEEM such gath
erng never will again be seen, until the sea
shall give up her dead at the summons Of the
last trump Well, tho inauguration came, and
with it, as first step, the dismissal Of every
chief democrat at the head of every depart-
mont of the government; then commenced tho
Iguillotine The axe was not permitted TO dry,
nor the eXecutioner TO sleep; each head in each
department, We'd with each other in the work of
execution. But Granger and Ewing went ahead,
and even surpassed Robespierre, their worthy
master and patron. The trial was more summa-
Try than that of the victims of the triumvrate.
The inquiry to each victim was not, sis lie capG-
bic, Is he honeSt?" II was, Z" Are you demo
Graf? Do you belong TO tho democratic associ-
alton, and are you subscriber TO the Extra
Globe2" The answer being in the affirmative,
off went his head. Bring forward another; so it
went Such was the inquisiton-such tho gull
Ilotine-such the Robesperres, and such the fate
of the victims.
Mr.. Speaker, there we're more men prescribed
for opinions sake the first six months of this ad.
ministration, than there we're from the first day
Of General Washingon's administration, TO the
last day of Martin Van Buren's So, mako
"proscription prescribed" general falsehood
No. 6.
One Of the charges Of extravaganza against
Mr.. Van Buren's administration was the "priRce-
ly manner " in which the Presidents house was
furnished. That falsohood was ncgatived by the
appropriation Of six thousand dollars, made to
furnish the Presidents house at ,hc commence
ment of this administration. That appropriation
was properly made; The Presidents house requ-
red it; but the application OF the money was not
made as intended lido not know what was done
with all the money think | know what was
done with part of il. am told that near
twenty-five hundred dollars of il was laid out in
wines TO furnish the cellar--not in furniture to
furnish the house. What will the honest, sober.
tax-puyng community say, when they learn that
this 'rGs-to-be economical and reform administra-
ton used twenty-five hundred dollars Of their
money TO purchase wines for the oafng, louap.