The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-08
WING MALIGNITY.-pRoscRIpTIoN, &c.

WHIG MALIGNITY- Prescription, &c.
Horace Greedy, of the ~ Y. Tribune, has the
following language in noticing the.death of An
DREW JACKSON The feelings of our better nature
would cause most to hesitate from indulging in
terms of bitterness at such time; but the cold
malignity which frees itself by envenomed libels
on the unbured dead, is in character from him
who was the first to seize the casual remark of an
obscure paragraph-writer, pretext to fill the
land with the maniac madness of the hard cider
orgies; and who, with a high capacity, has stoop-
ed to profess every novel opinion, and willingly
pander to the lowest ignorance and prejudice of
party to crafty his ambition for ascendancy He
reierates the charge against Jackson of proscrip-
ton in the style and spirit which disappointed fed
eralism delighted to use against Jefferson But
Greely was one of Harrison's most enthusiastic
admirers. Jackson made no pledges on this sub.
ect; Harrison promised toproscribe prescription
Yet of officers of SO high grade as to require
confirmation by the Senate, .torty-nine removals
took place fom the 18th to the 9th of March by
Gen. Harrison himself. In fact, the number of
dismissas of this class of officers during the first
FIVE months of Harrison and Tyer's Administra-
ton were one hundred and yfftyJfue, for OPINION
only; while during t,celUe gears of Jackson and
Van Buren's administrations only onehondred and
taoent-eight were dismissed for all causes. In the
Post office Department, Mr.. Granger, Harrison's
Postmaster General, himself stated that during the
few weeks he held his situation, he dismissed
D." SEVENTEEN HUNDRED" Postmasters, for
the offence of Democracy, and Z" had he remained
too weeks longer in office, THREE THOUSAND
would have been added to the list" The ne
cessity for every administration to have men in
office to carry out its views, friendly to its prin-
cples, is we'll understood by all parties; but the
wolf-howl of ''proscription +" has been used by
Federalism ever since Jefferson's Inauguration, as
if their 'vested rights" were wrested in giving
Democrats office. Yet whig practice has SO
grossly opposed Wing profession that Greedy
might afford to take off the hypocritical3mask
already worn till it is useless; at least he might
eschew attacks on the dead to serve the meanest
party uses We rejoice that Andrew Jackson
awoke the overhowing gall of the creatures of the
money power, which as National Bank was max
ing wreck of the strongest bulwarks of civil
liberty and national faith," ana which was by
bribery prostrating judicial and legislative au-
thorty'' at it's" footstoo,' and which leftthe only
egacies of - crime, disorder and calamity'' which
have cursed and will continue to curse the country
till it is rooted out from among US, liberty has
ceased to exist among prohigate and dishonored
people. We rejoice that Andrew Jackson was
sufficiently reckless of bankers hatred 20 oppose
this corrupt tendency of Alexander Hamilton's
scheme to bring the blessings of England's 60
vernment amongst US. We pass by the other
statements-they are but the frothing scum Of the
federal cauldron. Greedy says of Gen. Jackson: 4:
From the day when we first became ac-
quainted with the facts respecting his memora-
Bile Eruption into Florida, his capture Of the
Spanish posts, imprisonment of the authorities,
and hanging of traders with the Indians, VIC
have not doubted-how could we?-that he
was man too rash, too reckless, too violent
TO ready to stretch authority and arrogate
power-to be safely entrusted with the res
possibilities of exalted station The expert
ence of our manhood has confirmed tho i'm
pressions of early youth; and now, when
we contemplate the wreck of the strongest
bulwarks of Civil Liberty and National Faith
which was caused by his refusal to sustain
the Supreme Courts most righteous affir-
nance of the inviolability of the Cherokee
territory in Georgia and by his many kindred
prostrations of Judicial and Legislative au-
thortv at the footstool of Executive power
when we shudder at the deprivation Of
public morals and corruption Of Popular
Suffrage which has been created by his most
wanton and unprovoked Prescription of poll
tical opponents throughout his Presidential
career-when we reflect ON the long array
of usurpations and acts of violence which
marked his rule, and the terrible legacies Of
disorder, crime and calamity they have left
to the present and future generations, we
rejoice and are thankful that we never, never
for one moment aided or consented to his
most unfortunate elevation-that we never
ceased to exert in opposition to his policy all
the little power we possessed, and that we
wesenabled to cast a ballot-not vainly for
us/though, alas! Intellectually for the country
1against his reelection.
RoADs.-We copy the following remarks from
Fthe correspondence of the JMaun,ee River Times.
and commend it to readers. Most true is it that
bad roads are an insurmountable barrier to the
e r.