Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-31

We find the following pertinent remarks. on tht
subject of removals and appointments by the pres
ent administration, in the Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin. an Independent paper. We commend it tc
the attention of those who are so loud in their vo-
alterations of prescription:
aThe question of who shah be turned out, and
who shall go in, is just now the absorbing one
among politicians The old cry to the yictors be-
long the spoils which our democratic friends used
to channt with such JUNCTION, and which our whig
bretheren mathematical with virtuous indignation,
has fallen into dsfavor with its advocates to
BE adopted as eagerly by its old enemies Men
who pistlessly turned out every clerk who would
not swear by their political faith are now whining
and howling over the injustice of being deprived Of
their bread, over the tyranny of being suddenly re-
duced to poverty under the law they once loved SO
well, the law of retaliation. Politicians who en-
ployed every exertion to defeat Gen. Taylor-who
accused him of using Bibles for eatridges-who de-
nounced him as an imbecile old man, fit only for
fighting Indians-who spared no trick regretted
no time spent cared for no expenditure of money
in order to effect their aim now talk in the most
lugubrious terms of the wicked prescription, the
infamous cruelty, the tyranny, the crime, the anti
republcanism of turning them out of Office. To
listen to these men one would think that the uni
verse did not any where afford such another set of
injured patriots Such is human nature the bas-
est always noisiest The very Office holders who
seandalzed the nation, before the election by neg
lecting their duties in order to harrangue, up and
down through the state, like Janisaries, now alter
nate between sobs and threats and catching the
button-hole of every passer by, ask him beseech-
ingly if he thinks Taylor will turn them out?
ehaye no respect for men of this stamp. The
old Mortimer, pirates as they were, exhibited in
defeat courage which has won them the respect
olatter times for when the fate of war went against
them, they presented their heads to the stroke of
the axe as cheerfuy as in better times they slaugh
tered their foes The politicians of our day might
emulate their example No brave man shrinks from
the penalty of battle. he knows the risk beforehand
and accepts his destiny uneomplainingly. Danton,
when Robespierre trIumphed went to his death
like conqueror; it was only the Dubarry that
shrieked and ran about the scatfold vainly mpior-
ing aid When man. after valliantly fighting, on
seeing the tide of battle turn against him, calmly
meets his fate, we feel for him the esteem which
his high bold heart deserves Accordingly, they
who, after having opposed Gen Taylor, have re-
signed their Offices, remind of those knights of
DID, who in defeat scorned to ask for quarter, men
of noble and heroic souls, who. though defeated,
are not disgraced While on the contrary they
who stoop to accept their bread from the man they
have deEamed recall to US that species of treach
erous animal-we believe there is but one-which
viii eat from the platter of the child whose breath
it has watched, night after night, to take away,
We do not advocate prescription in Office We
think it wrong for new administration to lay the
axe at the root of the tree, and by one gigantic
blow, turn out the clerks of all the offices, mas
been done on former occasions Where an incum-
bent performs his duties properly, we would not
have him removed, even if he was known to vote,
at every election against our own party. isrightl
to think as he pleases we should consider indefeas-
ible and no ground to exclude him from Office
Nor would the length of time he had held his post
be reason for his removal; on the contrary, it
would be cogent argument for retaining him; for
he would by long service, only be the better quail
fled to perform bis duties faithfully and speedily"