The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-05-15
From ths Coreori IN. II, Slatetman
Proscription--W IL 1T

The new Administration Is filling many OF The
important offices in lis gift with good honest hiih
FIJI men-frm, trustworthy Wings who for abont
twenty years have not only been denied all arccss 10
places under The Government, hnt whenever pracli-
cable prosecuted with the fairy peculiar 10 Jacobin
Democracy, und the presses Of that party cry oul
that Cen Taylor has prescribed for their opinions,
and violated his professions. The absurdity Of the
thing Is apparent 70 every man Of the least maeina-
BILE capacity Neither Gen. Taylor nor his cabinet
hare prescribed anybody. They came into Office
finding the departments throughout the country
filed with men Of opposite political belief The bulk
of whom have long snbsisted upon public money,
and many OF them received place by the expulsion Of
Wings. They say to these men, Think and act as
You please upon political nflnrs--that is freemans
dght-but as you huye long been IN the public ser.
vice--as rotation In Office is republican nlaxmas
we prefer that the important places in the govern
ment be occupied by men who harmonize with the
Administration, and as there are honest, capable
men, who have for long course Of years been de.
barred from places of public trust 1t Is no than
right you surrender positions 10 which you pro-
pery lay no claim.
scribe men Is not only false but 1t is ridiculous Ii
is prescription TO hint those who have long occu-
pied places within the gift Of the President and the
departments--many of whom have been In Office ten
to twenty-five years--that II would be agreeable to
the Administration If they will vncale The places
long held, and leave the appointing power 10 choose
their successors2 And 10 il proscription-the hint
not ing heeded-f such men are informed their
SERVICES uTe no longer IequlIcut No nun III MS
senses viii nffirm such to be prescription,
Gen. Taylor for putting in practice the doctrine Of
rotation.
But ifit be prescription TO cause few hundreds
or even thousands Of Loco Office holders to snrren
der places held some twenty years. II Is devil re-
buking sin for the Locos TO raise the faintest
note OF remonsirance. Co. consult the Blue Book
through the long years intervening between March,
1929 and this last Inauguration, and what is there
recorded but the rapscity of the men who are now
humiliating themselves, and fnlsiyng all their own
proceedings through the dark period of their politi
ca ascendnncy. Gen Jacksonville most ferocious,
yindicve public man this country ever produced
not ten days in Office the yell Of his parti-
zans was heard from Mulne to Louisiana crying for
the expulsion of every Wing holding an Office worth
retaining. And the black butcher, Legendre
hired axe-man of the Jacobins-went no more cheer
fully about his horrd work Of butchering the men
women and children, cran,med by thousands within
the prisons Of Paris than did Gen. Jackson in turn
ing ont every mnn who voted against him, from the
head Of bureau down TO the obscurest tide-waiter
or keeper OF lighthouse There WINS perfect
weep of every Office worth hnlding. And from that
day to this, such has been the policy OF the party
now raising the insane cry that this Is proscptive
administration. The complaints Of those craven
presses which are now crying ont prescription, arc
fl only Tor the Of school boys or the tenants Of
a mad house.