Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-05-31

THE CRY OF PRosCRiPTIoN.-T The locofoco
presses, from the Washington Union down to
The very lowest Of that party, are bowling most
ptcously over every locofoco office holder who
happens to lose his head for having abused his
place or failed in attention to his duties. Not
outstanding it has been "part Of their sys-
tem," from the days OF Gen. Jackson to the last
hour Of Mr.. Polk's reign, to prescribe every
Wing, and appoint only such to office who
would "got it blind" for their party, yet, now
the Wings are in, they are utterly opposed to
the appointing power being exercised with some
reference to the assimilation of the policy of the
national government to the clearly expressed
national will: Notwithstanding nineteen ont of
every twenty of the officers OF the country were
found on the coming into power OF the present
administration, to be filed by locofocos, and
seven Ell ghts of this number had received their
posts and rewards tor partisan services-to make
room for whom much ADLER and better men were
excluded and proscrbed-yet when one of these
is removed or fails to be re-appointed, the loco
foco press from one end of the county to the
other sets up howl that makes day''as well as
night hideous. Having enjoyed the Offices OF
the country for twenty years or more, they claim
to possess lite estate in them; and one &C.
Glen PEBBLES" clerk in the War Department,
in letter to the Secretary of War, says:
claim legally to hold life estate in my appoint
ment, it being permanent one; or, for SO long
as the office s--removablo only for good
cause" And he even goes 50 far in his prelen-
tions, as to insist, that "if there should be no
material 10 employ him upon, then he could not
righiully be removed" Was there ever such
impudence heard of before, even from ocoioco
office holder An office for life, good pay and
nothing TO do
These men who cry no prescription" now so
Justify, should be reminded Of the rule adopted
| ku natr lao
two we give below.
Mr.. Chidress, of Alabama, had been recon-
mended by the entire delegation in Congress
from that State, five democrats and two wings,
for the Office of one of the Attorneys OF the U nj
ted States. On account of this democratic rec
ommendalon 1t was supposed that he was dem
ocrat, when he WAS In fact, wing, and man
whose personal popularity and general worth
would command the endorsement Of any body.
But on The supposltion that he was democrat,
| he received the appointment. AS soon as infor-
nation was had at Washington that he was a
wing, Mr.. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury,
immediately revoked his commission, and in
letter 10 hnn on the subject admitted that he was
well qualified Tor tho Office and an honest and
trustworthy man-but, says Walker, in justiica-
ton OF his arbitrary act, this Is democratic adj
nain,strdtion, and, IN order TO give ull furce a
lis policy, all offices must be filled by democrats.
This was the substance Of his letter. The 'poi-
cy of the administration" demanded his dismissal
and forthwith oil came his head. The locofoco
press justified The act-it was " part of the sys.
tenn" entaed upon the party by Gen. Jackson,
and OF course was all right
Of the prescription" practiced by Mr.. Polk,
the North American says; "Beginning as it
did, by descending to the door of the Treasury
building, and driving from an humble place an
American soldier OF the war of 1872, whose
brother lost his life at the battle of Monmouth
and substituting u stranger, an Englshman but
r recently naturallzed- former because lie was
a wing, and the latter because he was Demo-
Craft euded by filing, at the last dying hours
of lis existence; every Clerkship, and almost ev-
cry vacant place with lis own parlizans, and
GROWING The whole by appointing as cadet at
West Polut, the son OF person in Washington
who was soldier in the British army, aud fought
against this country in the war of lSI2-to The
exclusion of the SONS Of gallant and neritorious
oiheers IN our own army, who sacrificed theIl
lives IN defending the national honor. True it
the lnslincls which never deserted Mr.. Polk, he
appointed The son OF This British soldier, because
he was "Dcmocrat," and rejected the son o
an American soldier, because he was Wing"