Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-03-19
PRESCRIPTION.

The Union and the Enquirer talk great deal. just
now about pro.,iption vic,ims-decapta tion-guiljo
ne-sacrifce Of able and faithful oicers-frst martyrs,
SC, SC We really are constrained to say that such
slang INDUCED in by those journals. is well calculated 10
inspire disgust and them with ridcue. The Union
and the Enquirer whining removals from office, is
spectacle which no contemplate without laugh
ter, indignation, according to his temperament. The
files of both might be searched in vain for the bretest
paragraph. reprUbatng, in the amtest manner possible,
single act Of prescription ftom the accession Of Oh
Hickory the end Of the administration Of him who was,
by his friends, with satrca pleasantly, termed Young
Hickory The Editor of the Union, the provincial,
less than the national, boards, has defended the
system that 70 the vict1rs belong the spills, and exuled
in every removal Of Wing from Office. Has he
lent the aid of his pen and persona influence the doc
rne that the Wings dsfranchised and degraded
caste whom duty required the President to eject, in
otlcp and To appoint whom Office would be little
Short Of treason? We pass the manner id which he
hen editor Of the Enquirer goated the victims
ofhe ruthless prescription which marked the recession
IF jackson u power We conine our attention to lis
course, after hs elevation to the post Of official editor
and when the results Of the system forced upon lis
attention. and when he could avoid seeing the misery
and distress which it induced NJ have m file by US
quote FROM bit general recollection enables Is ID say
without fear IF contradiction that th4 Union not OILY did
not .hnt fault or hesitate dislike" bat that it justified
prescription system, and defended every individual
case Of lis application. The Wing publishes list Of
Isl Clerks and heads Of Bureaus, in Washington re-
moved within few months after MI Polk came into
power. The lis is not competethe number thus gull
olned,' exceeds 200. 1t will not be pretended that the
public interest demanded that these officers should be
superseded that, in dozen cases, their success
sos were, in any possible degree respectable in
character, or better qualified 10. be useful. No man
knowing the charace.of those removed and those APP
pointed, and regdrdful Of the truth, would dare make
such assertion. Considerations Of public good were
not even alleged pretext There was no hypocrisy
of the kind. The good of the PARTY was the avowed
indncement.
Three days after the Inauguration Of Mr.. Polk the
Union said:
''Ie is organizing the machinery ofhis Administration
and getting through that important and most delicate
and most difficult Off Is of reviewing the qualifications
of the officers who are co operate with him in the
public service This task u painful 70 every man Of
sensbIliy, yet important il selfl substituting those
who in office by those whom he may deem better
qualified better entitled to the country, is nov
going with all the clGcuGlspectlOn which his re-
Election and the advice Of his Cabinet can enable him 10
exert. Much Of The works. accomplished" sc. Sc"
This is the very euphemsm Of blood thirstiness-
Marat.and Collot d'Herbos, in their most trucuent
mood, could not, in eener and perphrastc terms
have demanded he sacrifice the heads Of thousand Of
the ''Asocras" "AIuch Of the work is accomplished 4,
Yes, though but three days had elapsed the work had
gone bravely on No time lost-scoeso Of dismssas
had been ordered and all this prescription, actual and in
J1, 1,1,
sacred duty ofthe President BY the man who now is
thrown into spasm Of virtuous horror and ndgnation
when Gen Taylor, with all the circumspecton which
his reflection and the advice of his cabinet can en-
able him to EXERT, is 'substit utng those who are in
office by those whom he may deem better qualified, Or
better entitled to the country"