Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11
Rotation in Office.


have frequen,ly spoken against the practice
of removal for opinions sake, but the leaders
Of each new Administration necessarily bring
in with them retinue of personal friends who
must be provided for, and as Congress will not
create a sufficient number of new offices to
meet the necessities of these gentlemen, and
the holders of the old ones will not resign, some
of the latter must be turned out. Besides, in
the present case, the merit of impartiality can
not be denied. Democrats are sent to the
shades of private life, and old Wings and Know
Nothings are retained This is done, perhaps,
upon the maxim of parcere subjectus ct debellare
superbos. The mercifn adage is not extended to
Republicans, few of whom, having been nos
ed out in the retired corners of the departments,
have been made examples of. They were not
allowed to blush unseen. One of the unfonu-
mates is prescribed because she is friend of
Preston King, the regenade Democrat" who
wrested the purple from Scripture Dick. Mr..
King has earned the hate of the Black Democ-
racy, which is certificate of devotion to free
dom, the Constitution, and the Union.
Jefferson Davis, ex-Minister of War, has
made an impressive speech in Mississippi, in
which he dictates TO MI. Buchanan his policy
for the next three years and nine months, and
postpones the crisis of the Union until 1860,
when he thinks that unless the North shall have
previously succumbed, casus belh will have
arisen between the sections. This adjourn
ment of the closing struggle is kind and consid-
crate 1t shows at las. this, that the Democ-
racy reserves crises for Presidential Elections.
A crisis is worth at any time million Of votes.
Gen. Cass is expected to return from De-
troit about the LIST of July. The President is
quietly revising the diplomatic list. and will
probably not make any changes until the end of
June. The numerous hints given TO applicants,
have driven them from Washington, and there
never was less personal pressure for office than
now. 1t is stated, as remarkable fact, that
the President yesterday took his evening walk
without meeting an ofice-seeker.
The Consulship to Beyrout, in Syria, and
several others of from two to four thousand a
year, are vacant, and loss of salary is running
on which is causing an alarming saving to The
| Treasury, at the cost Of worthy gentlemen who
have suffered for the party in time and purse
Mr.. j. w. Forney, ex-clerk, and confden-
tal candidate for Senator in Pennsylvania, is
said to have declined the offer of Consulship to
Liverpool. This disnerestedness, unusual in
Democrat, is to be rewarded by public din
ner in Washington. If there were gratitude
among politicians, the President would retain
in the Liverpool Consuship Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, who was biographer TO Gen. Pierce
for the universal odium which Pierce incurred
| gave the nomination 10 Mr.. Buchanan as most
his opposite. Hawthorne, however, will not
ha oil g
Should he again lend his literary name to
political purpose, he would have fine topic
for another scarlet letter. The murders in
Kansas are written in blood and the treachery
of Pierce to his pledges will make the muse of
history blush
A sarcastic democrat, who has felt the hand
of rotation, supposes the following scene and
dialogue;
Executive Chamber.
Present-the President and Secretary of the
State.
Mr.. Buchdnan"Gen. Cass, ] am urged 10 re-
move Mir, Commissioner of--. Is
there anything against hint"
Gen. Gle has been four years in Of
fce."
Mr.. B.--"Ah, yes, and have declared the
| RUE O1 rOtatlOn 10 De demOcratlc doctrine
Gen. C.-"Mr. President, | am happy to
agree with you. We desire the greatest good
TO the greatest number, the most offices to the
most democrats. Public servants must fire.
quently return to the people,"
Mr.. B.-"The sentiment is worthy of you,
Gen. Cass. By the way, General, when did
you enter officel"
Gen. Cass-"Halfa century ago, under Mr..
Jefferson. have always held myself subject
to the great principle of your Inaugural. l
was first an Indian Agent. was then rotated
into Governorshp, next into the Cabinet, af-
terwards into full mission, subsequently into
the Senate, and now again into the Cabinet"
Mr.. B.-"And have served forty years,
having come into public employment under Mr..
Monroe. Gen. Cass, our experience illustrates
the necessity of rotation. The country has no
right to take hale a century out of any mans
life. shall have to give M leave of ab-
| sence."
This is the way the rule is applied by those
who best understand its true significance.
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