The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-01


bearance has ceased to be virtue.
We might add that the Wing party do
not bear with indifference the insults aimed
at the President, and that they do not view
with Indifference the continuance in office
OF men who entertain the spirit of those
insults, and who are interested in conceal
ing the abuses which are SO plainly indi
Gated by the sole organs defence of Mr..
DENNY.
A PREACHER AGAINST HIS CREED.
There was noted biblical commentator
by the name of MANToN, who prided him
self on having made hundred and nine
teen sermons on the one hundred and
nineteenth psalm. This was pretty we'll
it indicated fertility but it was nothing
to what we have seen in our day. Our
MANToN, to be sure, is not an ecclesiastic.
He is not father of the church, but he
has preached more than five hundred SER
mons on a single text and if he goes on
as he has begun, there is little doubt but
that he will preach five thousand of them
before he has done.
/. The text the senior editor of the g sole
organ" breaches from inculcates The i'm
morality of removing men from Office be-
cause they are your political enemies.
What makes his fertility the more remark
able is, that he does not believe word in
his text, or in his doctrines, and does not
pretend to believe in them. He has so
little faith in the good sense and intelli-
gence of the people, however, that he
thinks he can brighten some with his
bowling, and melt some with his lamenta-
tons, and so make Roadway with his doc
trines whether he believes in them OF not
But the senior editor protests that it is
not the turning out that distresses him; it
is the principle of the thing-it is the
ground on which. it is done. President
TAYLOR promised to be the President of
the people, and he cannot be the President
of the people without keeping the Offices
in the hands Of the men who have had
them for the last twenty years. To be
the President of the people, means to keep
Locofocos in Office. This shows that
there was something shrewd and sensible
in General JAcKsoN's idea, that by long
continuance in Office men begin to look
upon it as species of property, and upon
government "rather as means of pro-
noting individual interests than as an in
strument created solely for the service of
the people," The Locofocos in Virginia,
for instance, believe that the navy agency
at Norfolk, and all the patronage belonging
to it, are Locofoco property. The senior
editor is persuaded that they are the prop
erty of the " settle" of the I" distinguished
Democrats" of Richmond. These ideas
have been bred in these men, because for
the last forty years they have had things
their own way-have considered them
selves the people-and cannot reconcile
themselves to the idea that the people can
be uppermost, and the elite" outside of
the treasury door.
GOLDSMITH, in one of his Chinese Let
tiers, narrates conversation at an English
prison between debtor through the CRATE,
a porter who had stopped to rest his bur-
den, and soldier at the window. The
Of
France, and the soldiers view of it was
taken pretty much in the same spirit in
which the senior editor regards removals
from Office. 60 1t is not so much our lib
critics as our religion that would suffer by
such change-ay, our religion, my lads.
May the devil sink me into flames (such
was the solemnity of his aduration) if the
French should come over, but our religion
would be utterly undone ~
So with the senior editor. II is not the
Offices he cares about, but the morality of
the thing. If the Wings get the Offices
the morals of the country will be undone !
The President, he AYERS, inficts a great
moral wrong upon the country by emitting
to retain in Office men who feel towards
him and speak of him with the malignity
exhibited by THOMPSON, ENGLISH, MoNT-
GoMERY, BRowN, BURKE, and all that class
of dismissed ofice-holders. And the "sole
organ" which utters these opinions is the
same "sole organ" which declared in lS45
that none should be permitted to remain
in office, or, in other words, be reappoint-
ed, whom the President would not, under
the circumstances attending each case,
appoint to office i"
They have not heard OF n.
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