Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-09-04
MIR. PoIk,s Administration.

The New York Express in the course of a
reply TO charge made by the Richmond En-
qurer that The Express "has necessarily as.
sailed the Administration and daily represented
Mr.. Polk as heariess and cruel lyranl" has
the following severe, YET just remarks in ref.
erence lherelo:
"What we have said of the Administration
we repeat OF all the Administrations we have
had the present has been the most proscripive
| or all The Presidents we have had, the present
has been the least dignifed and the most cor
rupt. Mr.. Polk volunteered declaration to
the American people on the fourth of March
last, that mnorities had their rights and that he
would defend them! And how has he defend
ed Them? By "rewarding his political friends,
and Furnishing his political enemies !" Poor,
suferingly poor men, with large families, de-
pending upon the earnings of their hands for
their bread, have been made 10 feel his own,
and the malice OF his associates in office. He
turned The house Of rejoicing into the house Of
mourning. and changed the buoyancy of health
aud hope into repining and sickness. His
ministraions 10 the sick have been The medi-
track of his prosecutions, and tears have fallen
from The eyes of those whom he has made the
widow and orphan. He has turned upon old
men, aud poor men, and 10 one of these one of
his minlons has said, that he was removed, not
because he was not good clerk, for it was pub
licly admitted that he was, but because he was
too old. That old age which God blesses, hu-
maniy honors, and religion commands US to re-
spect, has been the object Of his especial perse.
cuton. The removals of such men as Col.
Hebb and John Mcleod. the one four score
years old, and the other more than three score
and ten, speak rumpel-tongued Of that heart,
lessness, cruelty and ,yrrany which the Enquir-
er will IN vain attempt 10 conceal. In the one
place the clerk was the humble keeper of an
Arsenal, and supported large family upon
small salary Of three hundred dollars, and the
products of a small piece of land attached 10
The same, and In the other example, the clerk
received one of The smallest salaries of the Pos,
Office Department. Both in advanced life, and
men who had served the Government long and
well, were driven into The world, and others
were called TO take their place, and The bread
out OF their mouths, because they had not shout
ed for, and voted for, James X. Polk Shame /
upon such an Administration, and shame upon
those who defend il!
"But we stop not here. Men have no, only
been removed from office, bu, they have added
10 this wrong the calumny of their prosecutors.
1.-The good name Of many man has been
flched from him, along with the means Of live
ihood, of which he has been robbed We
have not forgotten The case of poor James, who
was hurried hearlslricken, 10 his grave, and
who len large and destitute family behind
him. Nor have we forgotten the persecution
1f The grandson of Innis, and of Peylon Ran
iolph, and granddaughter of Harrison-of DR..
Minge, nephew of the lamenled Harrison
Taylor, the son-in-law of Harrison, and pro-
ector of family-a nephew of Capt. Jas. Law
ence, Of Chesapeake fame-and host of oIh-
II worthy men. One hundred and twenIy-nne
nave been turned out of office in Washington
llone by Mr. Polk and his well selected official
md public execulioners. 1t is after this fash
on that he has shown that minorties have
lights, and he, too, minority President, And
is not in Washington alone that he has by his
'wn actions given The lie TO the words of his
ips. Indscrlminale and causeless removals
AVE been made; and in New York and else
where we have been told, good men have been
urned out of office, and rufians, felOns, and
,ulies put in. Mr.. Polk knows this, and know
ng it, we pronounce him, as all honest men
must pronounce him, The most corrupt iyran-
ical executive that was ever exalted TO the
hief magislracy of the nation"
The last Greensburg Argus reports two mel
ncholy cases Of poisoning and death which re-