Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-03-07
From the New York Express.
THE WINGS.

| Since 1928, have been a prescribed
Party. They have from the advent o
Gen. Jackson's administration, been hunt
ed down and driven out Of place, not only
as if they were enemies Of their country
but as il they were infdels or dogs toe
miserable for the country to hold. In l34C
they succeeded in obtaining power, but the
recreancy of Tyler robbed them of all
the honors and emoluments to which :hey
were entitled; and thus for twenty years
full one half Of the people Of this country
have been hunted out Of office, and run
down by the other half, with an utter in
difference to their claims, rights, and privi-
leges as freemen. living under free gov
eminent. Now, it is not to be expected
that such state of prescription will be
continued, or is to be endured, or that
General Taylor will not change it at all b.
as soon as there can be change with
reason and decorum. 4
Twenty years of prescription is the
prescription Of whole generation Of men,
and yet under this proscrip tion this genera
ton have lived We have seen, and
seen with necessary submission. the in
justice inflicted upon US of taking men
for foreign missions. or high places at
home. without any proper qualifications,
when the country was full Of Wings every
way qualified to fill the vacancies happen
ing or created.-and yet excluded or pro-
scribed only because they were Wings.
No matter, indeed. how humble the place,
be il even the sweeper Of the officers of
the Custom House, no Wing could hold it.
not that he was not honest or capable, but
solely because he was a Wing. From
such state of things we are of course as
nue.: emanciPated now, by the election of
General TAYLOR. as were the Roman slaves
when emancipated by their masters. If'
not freemcn vet. we were frced-men the
we threw off the proscrptive yoke.
and we but wait now for lis arrival and
settlement in Washington to be The FREE
'IEN who have their share of the hOncrs
md emoluments of great Republic like 7
his.
A howl. and a general howl. howl in
as we'll as aHission,. is to
De expected. of course, whenever General
Taylor or his administration sees fit turn
'ut any fmenty year-Proscribing office
holder, and to put in any twemty-year-pros-
;ribed Wing. "PRoscRIPrroN" will be a
word concerted. pitched on The highest
lOtc, anu run uOWn 10 the IOWeSt,-uWelt
upon in momentous and monotonous
lrawi, and tripped over tightly in hur-
RED demlsemiquaver. We must expect
all this. We must accustom our ears to
it. 4 half a million of our Loco Foco
brethren, who have been fatteninc for
wenty years, solemnly believe they have
, life lease for office, and that we are
pound to be their serfs as long as we all
i've; and the very first effort we make to
|ispel this illusion. they will roar. and rant. ,
nd scream, and yell. as if Beelzebub
vas let loose. with the whole Of his inter-
sting court and train.
What we Wings. however. expect from
General Taylor. is not PRESCRIPTION. then.
ut JUsTIcE-not REMOVALS so much as $
RESERVATIONS. We feel, we who pay |
axes and support and serve the Govern
nent. that we have right to our share of {
Is honors and profits. Moderation and ,
Dignity we hope to sea guide the Ship Of |
>tate-but Justice we hope to see at the
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