Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-03-15
/" "PrOscription."

"FrOsCrlptlOn."
| In the course of very few weeks, we may ex-
pect TO hear the howls Of the Locofoco press over
the prescription" Of the Wings. After. having
held an almost undisturbed tenure of office for
some twenty years, the idea that the Wings will
claim their share of the honors and emoluments
Of government, will throw them into perfect con-
vulson of rage. This matter is so well put in the
editorial columns of the Erpress of last week,
that we cannot forbear copying it in. full.
AS the President elect wends his way to Wash
iugton, speculation increases in its anxiety to learn
what will be his measures and his policy. That
anxiety will soon be in part, if it is not already,
assuaged by the now pretty we'll ascertaned fact
that the members of the Cabinet will be Wing,
and pure Wing. Starting from such point, none
can doubt that his policy will be Whig-Whig as
understood by the Fathers of the Republic, and as
set forth in the celebrated Allison letters An ad-
ministration established upon such principles,
must in the main, be satisfactory to the Wing par
ty of the Union, and will no doubt, command its
cheerful support. But there yet remains matter
of great embarrassment to be settled-and that is,
what will Gen. Taylor do with the offices Of hon.
or and emolument in the Union! None of us are
able to speak officially or officially upon this
interesting topic; but all of US have our views
we shall take the liberty to express ours.
The Wings, since 1923, have been prescribed
party. They have, from the advent of Gen. Jack
sons administration, been hunted down and driven
out of place, not only as if they were enemies of
their country, but as if they were nfdels or dogs,
too miserable for their country to hold. In 1910
they succeeded in obtaining power, but the recre-
ancy of Tyler robbed them of all the honors and
emoluments to which they 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 indifer
ence to their claims, rights and privileges as free
men, living under free government Now, it is
not to be expected that such state of proscrp-
ton will be continued, is to be endured, that
Gen. Taylor will not change it at all, as soon as
there can be change with reason and decorum.
We do not wish nor believe that Gen. Tayloi's
will be proscriptive administration but we do
believe that he will restore to full one half of the
people their lost rights, and take them from under
the ban of accommodation which power has laid
upon them for the last twenty years.
Twenty years of prescription is the prescription
of whole generation of men, and yet under this
prescription this generation have lived We have
seen. and seen with necessary submission, the
injustice inflicted upon us oftaking incapable men
for missions, or high places at home, when the
country was full of Wings every way qualified to
fill the vacancies happening or created-and yet
excluded or prescribed only because they were
Wings. No matter, indeed, how humble the place,
be it the sweeper of the Offices Of the Custom
House, no Whig could hold it not that he was
not honest or capable. but solely because he was
a Whg From such a state of things, we are
of course, as much emancipated now, by the cleo
ton of General Taylor, as were the Roman slaves
when emancipated by their masters. Ifnot free
men yet, we were freed men the moment we threw
off the proscriptve yoke, and we but wait now
for his arrival and settlement in Washington to
be the FREEMEN who have their share of the hon.
ors and emoluments of great Republic like this.
howl, general howl and howl IN profundis-
sinao as well as altissimo, is to be expected, of
course, whenever Gen. Taylor or his admnstra-
ton sees fit to turn out any twenty gear proscrb
ing office holder, and to put in any tcenty year.
prescribed Wing. PRESCRIPTION" will word
pitched on the highest note and run
down to the lowest, dwet upon in a momentous
and monotonous draw, and tripped over Hightily
in a hurried demi-semiquaver. We must expect
all this We must accustom our ears to il. A
half million of our Locofoco brethren, who have
been fattcning for twenty years, solemny believe
that they have life lease for office, and that we
are bound to be their serfs as long as we all live;
and the very first effort we make to dispe this IL
usioa, they will roar and rant and scream and
yell as if Beelzebub was let loose, with the whole
Of his interesting court and train.
What we Wings, however, expect from Gen.
Taylor is not PRESCRIPTION, then, but JUSTICE
bot REMOVALS much as REsToRATIoNs. Wei
feel, we who pay taxes and support and serve the
Government. that we have right to our share of
lis honors and profits. Moderation and dignity
we hope to see guide the Ship of State-but Jus
ice we hope to see at the helm.
Ingenuity Of Policemen.
Some bold and successful burglars in New York
who have recently been committing several heavy