Washington telegraph., 1849-03-28
The Prescription OF THE PRoSCRIBERs

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pertinent remarks on this subject.
The Wings, since 1928, have been a
prescribed party. They have, from the
advent of Gen. Jackson administration,
been hunted down and driven ont Of
place, not only as if they were enemies
of their country, but as If they were
infidels or gods too miserable for the
country to hold. In 1910 they succeeded
in obtaining power, but the recreancy of
TYLER robbed them of all the houors and
emoluments to which they were entitled !;
and thus for twenty years full one halt OF
the people of this country have been
hunted out of office, and run down by
the other half, with an utter indifference
to their claims, rights and privileges as
freemen, living under a free government.
Now, it is not to be expected that such
state OF prescription will be continued, or
is to be endured, or 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 General
Taylors will be proscriptive administra-
ton; but we do believe that he will
restore to full one half of the peo pie their
lost rights, and take them from under the
ban of accommodation which power
has laid upon them full twenty years.
Twenty years of prescription is the
prescription Of whole generation Of men,
and yet under this prescription this gen
Grafton have lived. We have seen, and
seen with a necessary Submission, the
injustice inflicted upon us of taking men
for foreign missions, and high places at
home, without any proper qualifications,
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 even the sweeper of
offices of the Custom House, no Wing
could hold it. not that he was not honest
or capable, but solely because he was
Whig. From such a state of things we
are of course as much emancipated now,
by the election of Gen. Taylor, as were
the Roman slaves when emancipated by
their masters. If not .treemen yet, we
were freedmen the moment we threw off
the proscriptive yoke; aud we but wait
now for his arrival and settlement in
Washington to be ireemen who have
their share of the honors and emoluments
of great Republic like this.
A howl, and a general howl, a howl
IN profumdassimo as well as attassanao,
is to be expected, of course. whenever
Gen. Taylor or his administration sees
fit TO turn out any tWenty-year proscrib-
ing Office holder, and to put III any taOenty-
year prescribed Wing. Prescription"
will be word concerted, pitched on the
highest note, and run down to the lowest.
-dwelt upon in a momentons and monot-
onous drawl, and tripped over Tightly
in hurried ddemi-semi-quaver. We must
expect all this We must accustom our
ears 70 it. A half million of our locofoco
brethren. who have been fattening for
twenty years, solennly believe they have
life lease for office, and that we are
bound to be their serts as long as we all
live; and the very first effort we make to
dispel this illusion, they will roar, and
rant and scream, and yell as if Bellzebub
was let loose, with the whole Of the in
teresting court and train.