Washington sentinel., 1853-10-08
PRESCRIPTION.


serve and to enjoy the reward of labor
PRESCRIPTIONS.
We HAVE SEEN in many quarters assaults on
the present administration, because of its pro
scriptiye tendency. These charges are without
foundation. They have nothing to sustain
them.
The present administration has not been pro
scriptve. To-day there are as many wings as
democrats holding Office in the city Of Wash
ington. Thusfar even the appointments to office
have not been exclusively democratic. Under
such circumstances the charges against the
present administration are ridiculous and alb
surd.
During the first four months of General Tay-
lor's administration there were more removals
than were ever made from the foundation OF
the government to the date of his Inauguration.
But what is worse: these removals were made
with such an utter. disregard to public senti-
ment, and were supplied so recklessly, that
every branch Of the public service fell into dis
organization and confusion. The State De-
partment, under Mr.. Clayton the Treasury
Department, under Mr. Meredith the Interior
Department, under Mr.. Ewing the War De
partment, under Mr.. Crawford the Navy De-
partment under Mr.. Preston; the Post Office
Department, under Mr.. Collamer; each and
all manifested degree of violent and vindictive
prescription which has had no parallel in the
history of this country.
Under these circumstances, the audacity OF
the whig press in charging the present admins
tration with proscrptive feelings, Is, perhaps,
more a subjeet'of wonder than of resentment.
For if the administration has committed any
fault in this regard, that fault consists more in
the leniency it has shown to its enemies, by per-
mitting them to retain office, than by the re-
movas it has sanctioned, and the injudicious
appointments il has made.
We have no vindictive feelings towards any
one; we feel no interest in those men who look
to the public treasury as means Of support.
We do not care fig whether they live or die.
But we are party men; and we believe that par
ties can only be successful when they adhere to
their principles, and give the means that sue
cess furnishes, to true and faithful men, As the
world goes, there is no other basis of success
If the world was better than it is, we might
reason differently; but we must reason Of the
world as it is, not we might wish it to be.
Coupled with attacks on the administration,
because of its supposed proscriptive feelings,
there is always a more indirect and insdious
assault But yet the artfnl sche,ners are doomed
to disappointment
The history of the President well known
sentiments-his true nationality, all repudiate
the idea that he can, or will be, unfaithful to
the great party which placed him in his high
position. He understands the condition of the
country. He lis fully and thoroughly imbued with
acknowledgements sentiments. From his first
entrance into the political arena to the present
time, he has been the stern foe to all factions
showing always that he believed that the peace
and prosperity of the country depended on the
preservation of our enlarged liberal democratic
organization.
We know full well that studied and indus
trious efforts have been made, and that they are
Ho" pciis hauc " 'ociion anu uooiehihg hch
to place the President in different attitude
before the country. Such men labor for their
own ambition and aggrandizement, They care
nothing for the President nor for democratic
usages. nor for the success of democratic ideas
and sentiments. A democratic victory such
victory that which the democracy achieved
in November, is voice from the sovereign
people announcing It's wishes and its will.
That voice must be listened to and respected
1t comes from the highest source !; and if it
be not respected, il will make itself respected