The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-08-26

mo PRESCRIPTION FOX OPlNlON ) OAhE.-
This is very important article in the whig
creed just now; and it always is important
with them when their opponents have the
power and patronage of the Government;
but when they happen to have the power, the
creed is modified. We take the following,
quoted from the Intelligencer of April 9th,
lS4l. The wings had just then got into
power; and the change in the creed was
then officially announced in the Intilligencer:
"We are yet of opinion,
that it is due to consistency, as we'll as to the
known wishes of the popular majority which
brought the present administration into pow
er, that the reform in the abuses of the 60
pernment should embrace PERSONS as peU as
things; that the required change of measures
should be accompanied Nth such a change Of
officers as will produce harmony of action in
the different departments, of the government.
n n This, it appears to us, is no
more than common sense and ordinary pru-
dence require of erery man in priuate life
in the management Of his affairs. No man
for example, coming to the head of landed
estate, of manutactory, of mercantile
house, or the commander of a ship, Mould
retain in authority under him an overseer, a
foreman, cashier, or mate, (and so also OF
inferior of employments0 in whom he had no
confidence" &C., &c.
This is not prescription. 1t is only reform
ing abuses, embracing persons as well as
things. The following from the Globe will
illustrate how these abuses were reformed
in practice under whig rule.
"To the publisher of the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April |, 1871.
GENTLEMAN: In common witt many Others
of the Post Office Department, am made a
practical Illustration Of the sagacity of the
"Roman Consul" Whilst hundreds of bet
ter men are being sacrificed to the Moloch
of party, it is not for me to complain of any
peculiar hardship. Mr.. Granger has had the
kindness to inform me that my removal is
in consequence of no misconduct on my part,
but SIMPLY BECAUSE MY APPOINTMENT WAS
MADE BY HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS few months
before he came into office. This assurance
removes from me the only possible source of
regret.
81 am, gentleman, respectfully, your obe-
dient servant.
Signed "HARVEY."
These doings were in strict accordance
with the seLt ments Of the whig party at the
time. From all parts of the Union, the poor
hungry office seeking wings thronged the city
Of Washington, perfectly rabid for the spoils.
In confirmation of this, read the following ex-
tract from a whig paper published in Savan-
nah, Georgia:
"The city (Washington) is now overflow
ing with office-seekers--sly three applicants
for every office in the gift of the Govern
ment--hocls crowded; say three TO five in
a small room, and some sixty to eighty thon'
sand expected next week. n y n Sixty
men came on yesterday from New York city.
This was P. Homes party. To-day Aaron
Clark and his party of eighty men are ex-
pected Twenty-three ONLY are after and
expecting the office Of collector of New York
Had the General kissed the Virginia girls
before the late election, he would have car
ried the State by one thousand maioriy.--
Exquisite witty Was it this salutalion of
the girls, or the perception of the Office seek
ers, which has wearied the General? We
understand he is almost figged to death. 1t
is said, however, that the President is about