The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-04-03
From the N. Y. Express.
q PRESCRIPTION. mr.. JEFFER-
SONS VIEWS.

| The Administration seems 10 DC cHodT'
rassed, if report can be relied upon, IN de-
cidingwhai ought 10 be lis course IN the maiteI
of removals from office.-No question is GER
tainIy more embarrassing Than this, because
prescription in and of itself, is undoubtedly
wrong,-bul if The members of the Cabinet
keep their eye steadily upon few leading
truths. they will soon be relieved from lhls
embarrassment.
TIE Wings of the United States are cer>
iainly about half of The 2O,OOO,OOU oil peo-
pie of the UnUed STATES, or Otherwise ihey
could not have elected Gen. Taylor Their
President by The popular voIe Now, ten oil
these twenty millions are prescribed race
ard, prescribed, not because, they are mol
capable of holding Office. but prescribed,
solely because they are not Democrats, anu
are Wings.
The question is, shall The ban Of proscrip-
ton be kept upon them Shall all The
honors and emoluments of The Government
be monopolized in the Democrats hands =
Are they especially born for, and created
b. office , Is not Equality part oil Jug
riceY
To state these questions lie 10 answer Them.
Nobody doubts now, that in Equality and
Justice, Wings have as much right 10 the
Offices and honors Of Government, as Demo-
crais Nobody doubts but that the Demo-
cratic monopoly is odious and proscriPtlve
But Gen. Taylor comes into Office pedg-
ed 10 no prescription. He certainly does.
Ali this is granled.-and 10 this pledge, we
hold him. Here are $50, 900 Federal offices.
The whole of Them are filled by Democrats.
There is scarcely one Wing i'll power from
Maine to Oregon. To Gen. Taylor, we say,
remove the Ten millions of Wings from The
unjust prescription, under which they suffer,
and give them l25, 900 OF these $50. 600 Fed
eral Offices.
Justice demands all this. 1t is now 20
years, since the Wings were prescribed
race. Since 1923 9. The People, in 1910,
removed them from The ban of prescription,
but tie treachery of John Tyler 10 the peo
pie that elected him, restored The ban The
election of Gen. Taylor by the same Wings,
was for The purpose, next 10 the restoration
ofihe principles Of The early Presidents, Of The
removal from them of the cruel prescription,
under which they we're put during Gen.
Jackson's administration.
And one of The leading principles OF the
early Presidents is The truth we have been
inculca,ing in Tie remarks above. Mr.. JET
icrson, in his letter 10 Elias Shipman, Esq,
and others, members Of Committee of the
merchants of New Haven, said:
The removal, as il is called, Of Mr.. Good
rich, forms another subject Of complaint.
Declarations by myself in favor of political
tolerance, exhOrialion 10 harmony and affec-
lion in social intercourse, and 10 respect for
The equal rights of The minority. have, on
certain occasions, been quoted and miscon>
strued into assurances that the tenure OF Off
ces was 10 be undislurbed. But could can
dor apply such a construction Ii is not,
indeed. in the remonstrance that we find il,
but il leads TO The explanations which that
calls for. When il is considered that during
the late administration, those who were not
Of particular sect Of politics were excluded !
from all office, when by steady pursuit Of
this measure, nearly the whole Offices of The |
United States were monopoliZed by that |
sect when the public sentiment at length |
declared itself, and burst open the doors o +
honor and confidence 10 those whose opin- |
ols they more approved. was il 10 be imag-
med thai this monopoly of Office was still 10 |
be continued in the hands Of the minority |
Does it violate their equal rights 10 assert |
some rights in the majority also J Is it poLit- !
cdL intolerance 10 claim proporlionaie share
10 the direction Of the public affairs? Can |
they not hGrmonize in society unless they |
have every thing ic their own hands III
The will of The nation, manifested by their |
various elections, calls FOR an administration |
of government according with the opinions
Of those elected if for the lulflment of that
will, displacementsa are necessary, with whom
can they so Justly begin as with persons APP
pointed in the last moment OF an admins
traIion, not for its own aid, but 10 begin
career al the same lime with their success
orF, by whom they had never been approved, /
and who would scarcely expect from them a !
cordial co-operarion2 Mr.. Goodrich was
one Of these. Was i, proper for him 10 (
place himself in office, without knowing !
whether those whose agent he was 10 he, |
would have confidence in his agency? Can /
the preference of another as the successor 10
Mr.. Austin, he candidly called removal of
Mr.. Goodrich If due participation Of Of !
fee is a matter of right, how are vacancies !
10 be obtained Those by death are few. |
BY resignation none. Can any other mode !
than that Of removal be proposed2 This is !
n painful Office. But it is made my duty and
| meet il as such. proceed in The operas |
lion with deliberaiion and inquiry, that il |
may injure the hest men least, and effect the
purposes Of justice and public utility with the
least private distress, that il may be thrown,
as much as possible, on delinquency, on OPP
pres sion, on intolerance, on anii-revolu- F,
tlonary adherence to our enemies.
Tie remonslrance laments '.Ihat change
in The administration must produce change
in The subordinate officers in other words,
that 1t should be deemed necessary FOR all
officers 10 think with the principal. But on
whom does this impulaion hear2 On those
who have excluded from office every shade
Of opinion which was not theirs?or on those I
who have been so excluded? lament sin !
cerely that uucssenial differences of opinion |
should ever have been deemed sufficient 10
inteFdict half the society Fl ON the rights and t
the blessings Of self government; TO pro-
scribe them as unworthy of every trust 1t !
would have been 10 me a circumstance OF
great relief, had found "A moderate pariici, |
patton OF Office in the hands Of The majority. |
would gladly have left time and accident |
10 raise Them 10 their just share. But their
total exclusion calls for prompter corrections. /
shall correct the procedure: but that dome, .
return with JOY 10 that state of things, when (
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