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II
General Taylor elected President under pledges
made by himself and his friends that prescription should
be prescribed" No have forgotten the declara-
tons of Mr. Crtenden, and others of his prominent and
confidential friends as to his course in relation to
movals and appointments if he should be chosen by the
people as their Chief Magistrate Nor are those OF his
cabinet VIII have heretofore held prominent positions IN
the federal government less committed yprolesson than
is General Taylor Mr. Clayton and Mr. Johnson have
both heretofore denounced removal from Office for pot
cal opinions, in various ways and in strong language
As to Mr. Ewing there is record evidence of his profess
sions, which stands contrast with his practice when
possession of authority and bespeaks him to be hol-
low peiender shows that he is constrained by an over
ruling power to act contrary to his feelings and wishes
with respect to removals OF democrats from Office On the
Goth of January. 1882, MIR Ewing then senator of the
United States from Ohio, offered in his place in the
Senate the following resolution; which was printed by
order of the Senate
Rssoped. That the practice of removing public officers
the President any other purpose than that of securing
faithful execution of the laws hostile 10 the spirit OF the
constitution contemplated by its Trainers; an
extension of executive Influence Prendcia to The public
service, and dangerous to the liberties oft people, &c &c
This resolution taken up the 3lst OF the same
month"; ordered to be printed and made the order OF the
day for the 18th of February. Is Mr.. Ewing of the
to the professions we have commented on. to express
either our thereto dissent hererom but solely
to show that these gentlemen did not when o OF Office,
preach they practise when IN office.
OF General Taylor, disposed to believe that he
will not wHngty and Knowingly violate his pledges.
He is not the man to do it. He has not been politician,
or mixed with politicians; and knows little of the wes,
the ntrgues and tricks of the wing repullers, who
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selves, and who would his power and his char
acter to promote their schemes for the retention OF the
control OF the government in their hands.
We do not pretend know the fact, but we have been
informed that within the last few days, there have been
several removals of democratic officers made by the heads
OF departments or by their order, which there is
to believe have been made tvihom the knowcdge or con-
sentot the President or upon false petences and repre-
sensations being made him. The publication of these
removals is suppressed Neither of the wing organs in
Washington announces them, and we presume they
ignorant of them Some of them have been stated to
as having taken place. and being represented TO have
taken place by the express and direct order of the Pres
dent himself; and such allegation has been made, in
more than one case by his subornaes, in selfexonea
ton &c. too new Offices have been created by heads of
departments We have heard of four in Satethree
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of the Interior-upon doubtful legal right and still
doubtful policy These haze not been published.
Can it be that General Taylor is ignorant OF these
transactions We have heard that within few days
the President has declared, in very emphatic language
that the power of the government should not be pros-
,uted to sinister partisan purposes promote selfish
personal schemes while he welded it-that he would
uphold the principle of his Allison letter. And are
IN nf
the removals and of the appointments we have alluded
to- s that he may not be appzed of what is really going
on in his name Can it possibly be that he deceived by
any of those around him?
! We shall this topic AT present, correct
i've of the state of things existing, request our
friends in distant parts of the Union to advise of all
removals in their vicinity and the alleged causes, and
the character of the appointments made, for publication
as matter of record We wish TO spread the black cat
alogue before the country We wish to present the
tire record before the Congress of the United States We
wish to show how completely incompatible, how d.
rec,y contradictory the professions of this administration
are to its practices.
This is not the first time that the wings in power have
flown in the face of the very professions with which they
obtained it, The same game was played in Gen. Harr-
sons time. We have before us document which was
published in 1914, under the auspices OF committee Of
the democratic members of Congress. We content
selves with making few extracts from it
Before the last presidential election the country
of promises by the wings make removals from office
for difference of opinion. Since that party became seated
in power, the country has been equally full OF harsh and
wanton violations of those promises
The democrats had long been denounced by their oppo
Robesperres reekng with the blood OF slaugh
tered victims, and acting what was denounced
unrighteous maxim, that to the pctors belong The spJs
But since the 4th of March, lS4l from the the
WING President into office, and bef,re he
had reached the palace in his rumpha through
Pennsylvania avenue, the work OF prescription began
the Senate, by proposition there made and afterwards
adopted the public printers The guilotine has
heads have been struck of without accusation, de-
voion those democratic principles imbibed from Han
cock Jefferson and host of revolutionary aud
the spo OF every office from tide-waite to prime min
lister have been seized on by the wings, with voracy TO
tally unexampled in tlfe annals Of the republic
| Neither patriotism and wounds in virtues in
private life arduous services in council and legisa
neither necessities, honest dependency,
any protection from this ruthless prescription;
but ndiscrminate warfare has been waged upon
ed hungry partisan of power and where his conscen
ous convictions of duty had prevented him from joining
the orgies OF the wing canvass OF 1910
is purpose this occasion to discuss the pro-
priety Improperly of removals from office such
cpes But hold due to the purity of public morals,
lie reprobaon and indignant not merely the incon
sencie but the hypocrisy and perfdy which have been
pracsed by the wing leaders this absorbing subject
One of the senators from New Hampshire, (Mr PerceO
in eloquent speech delivered in the Senate July lS4
said,
complain complain of your hypocrisy. charge that
leading made the