Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-08-22
Executive Prescription.

Mr. Polk took the Presidential chair profess
inc the most intense adherence OF prescription
for mere opinions sake; Notwithstanding gov
eminent patronage was never 80 extensively
and so viiey prostituted 10 party purposes, as
il has been thus far under his administration.
He has already removed more than fifty lncum-
bents from the departments at Washington,
whose salaries in the aggregate amount to
more than $4,000 Among these are some of
the most merrtorious and valuable public Off
GERS that ever served the nation. Such men as
Henry l.. Ellsworth, known TO the whole coun-
try for his inestmabe reports from the Patent
Office whose praise is in every mans mouth,
and John S. Skinner, the editor Of the first ag-
rioultural paper ever published in the Union,
whose reputation is every where identified with
the advancement Of the farming interests of the
country, and Matthew. St. Clair Clarke, man
of unimpcachable integrity and unsurpassed a.
biIily in his official capacity, and scores OF 9TH
ers Of the most eminent worth, have been re-
moved to make way for Edmund Burke and a
clan of other unprlncipled partizans, whose on
w recommendation has been their unqualified
serviIity to the supercilious amoners of the pub
lie bounty. In the country at large, more than
a thousand removals have already been made
and the work is but Just begun. The horrd
cang OF the guiotine is heard over the whole
land Decapitation is the order Of the day.
In the teeth of the declaration in his Inaugural
that che should not be unmnd(ul that his fell
low citizens who have differed from him in o.
pinion, are entitled to the full and free exercise
OF their Judgments" President Polk exhibits
the most unreenling ierocty, in exterminating
every officer who will not crouch at his feet in
the most abject sycophancy. The Executive
will is memorable. If a public agent has the
temerty to retain the least remnant of his ma
tive independence, he is a doomed man. No
circumstances, no popularity of condition, can
avert the fatal blow. He signs his own death
warrant, when he refuses 10 surrender himself,
body and SOUL to the control of Government.
But what adds ten-iold aggravation to this
indscriminate prescription is the fact that NOR
ality is continually shocked, and decency out
ragged, by the bestowment of offices upon men
of the most notorious imfamy. Vice and de-
pravity appear To be under the special patron
age Of Government. Traitors and rioters,
gamblers and swindlers, DULLES and duelists,
and ruffians ofevery character aud grade, whom
no moral man can regard with any other sensa-
lions than delestalon and loathing, seem TO be
the particular favorites Of the Administrations =
Mr. Polk appears resolved TO establish for his
body guard, band of reckless anizares, who
will not scrupe to work ont every unhallowed
purpose that political ingenuity can conceive.
Take few cases by way Of disqualification.
He has appointed Darlington Anthony Mar
shall of the District Of Rhode Island. This
Anthony was the Infamous blacksmith, whom
Dorr made sheriff, and whose house was his
headquarters. He was once indicted and
bound over to keep the peace. He has also APP
pointed Walter Burgess, DORIS Secretary of
State, to be the District Attorney Of Rhode Is
land, and Hezekiah Willard, a Senator in
DORIS mock Legislature, to be the Collector
Of the Port Of Providence. He has appointed
David Parmater, rabd Dorrite, and villain
who was once convicted Of forgery in Worces.
ter County Court in the State of Massachu-
sets, to be surveyor of the same Port
Through this agent he has appointed Isaiah
Rynders, the notorious Captain OF the inla-
nous Empire Club, TO an important oltce IN Inc
New York Custom House. This is the same
scoundrel, who was once arrested in Washing
ton city for stealing Treasury notes in New
Orleans; and the same, who, no longer ago
than March last, attempted murder IN the city
of Albany 1t is said TO be well-attested TACT,
that no less than 90 individuals, who were once
felons in the Penitentiary, now occupy subor-
dinate stations in this same Custom House.
He has appointed Gideon c. Matlock, who
killed Bryant in the streets of Nashville, in 1S4S,
10 government agency in Arkansas. He has
appointed Mr. Labranche, noted duest 10 an
important Office in the New Orleans Custom
House. He has appointed Mr. Jones, Cilley's
second in his duel with Graves, to be Surveyor
General of Wisconsin. And Mr. Meek Of Ala
bama, who was Yancey's second in his fight
with Ciingman last winter, he has favored with
valuable clerkship at Washington.
Virtuous freemen of Vermont, it becomes
you to rebuke such base pandering to vice and
crime. Proclaim at the polls in tones OF thun-
der that you can have no fellowship with such
iniquity l-Vt. Watchman.