The Spirit Of The Age

The Patchogue Guillotine.

MOTTOES.

"I am opposed to the practice of making appointments to office the REWARD of PARTISAN service.—General Harrison's Letter to J. M. Berrien.

"Gen. Harrison will, in all his appointments, look alone to the welfare of the nation. No personal consideration—no mere party authority—no combinations of influential men, can induce him to nominate to, or remove from office, any one individual for mere party purposes. Fitness on the one hand, and fidelity on the other, are the only inquiries which he can or will make, and any effort to change or thwart this course, will receive his rebuke, and merit general indignation."—Editor of the Cincinnati Republican, the chairman of "my committee."

"It was the remark of a Roman Consul in an early period of that celebrated Republic, that a most striking contrast was observable in the conduct of candidates for offices of power and trust before and after obtaining them."—Harrison's Inaugural.

"There is no civilized country on earth in which, on a change of rulers, there is such an inquisition for spoils as we have witnessed in this free Republic. Whenever did any English Minister, Whig or Tory, go down to low water mark to make an ousting of tide waiters? When did he disturb the post offices, the mail contracts, and every thing else in the remotest degree connected with the government."—Daniel Webster in his Worcester Speech in 1822.

"The daily removal from office of virtuous and capable men, for no other reason than independence of opinion, is A PROSTITUTION OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE INCONSISTENT with virtuous principles, and true patriotism."—Governor Ellsworth's Speech, May Session, 1836.

"And the people assembled in the forum, not as in the days of Camillus and Scipios, to cast their free votes for annual Magistrates, or pass on the acts of the Senate, but to receive from the hands of the leaders of the respective parties their share of the spoils, and to shout for one, or the other, as those collected in Gaul or Egypt, and the lesser Asia, would furnish the larger dividend."—Harrison's Inaugural.

"No removals from office for opinions sake."—Gen. Harrison.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT

Wm. P. Briggs, of Richmond, Collector for the District of Vermont, vice A. W. Hyde, removed.

Levi Lincoln, Collector for the District of Boston and Charleston, vice George Bancroft, resigned.

Joseph Eaches, Collector, Alexandria, D. C. vice George Brent, removed.

Asahel Burrington, Postmaster at Burke, Vt. in place of Ora Colburn, removed.

Seth C. Wetherby, Postmaster at Jericho Corners, Vt. in place of S. M. Parsons, removed.

John Hogan, Register of the Land Office at Dixon, Illinois, vice Samuel Hackleton, removed.

Hiram Decker, Register Land Office of Vincennes, Indiana, vice A. Madellett, removed.

Jacob De La Motta, to be Receiver of Public Money at Charleston, in the State of S. Carolina—dem. removed.

Return J. Meigs, to be Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee—dem. removed.

Asher Robbins, to be Postmaster at Newport, R. I.—dem. removed.

John Chambers, to be Governor of the Territory of Iowa, vice Robert Lucas, removed.

Otho H. W. Stull, to be Secretary for said Territory—dem. removed.

Thomas B. Johnson, to be Marshall for said Territory—dem. removed.

Cornelius Darrach, to be Attorney for the Western District of Penn., Walter Forward who was appointed to said office having declined its acceptance.

Daniel G. Garnsey, Land Office Receiver, Dixon, Illinois, vice John Dement, removed.

Charles Hopkins, to be Solicitor of the General Land Office—dem. removed.

James Watson Riley, Register of the Land Office at Lima, Ohio—dem. removed.

Nathaniel F. Williams, Collector, Baltimore, Md. vice William Frick, removed.

Charles L. Porter, Postmaster at Hartford, Ct.—dem. removed.

Samuel H. Jenks, Postmaster at Nantucket, Ms.—dem. removed.

No. 1.—The die is cast, and the Postmaster of this City, Col. C. W. Gooch, is superseded. Nothing could save him. He was honest, capable, faithful in the discharge of his duties; but he must be sacrificed as a victim to the political proscription of the troubled spirits of the Whig party. The Administration was willing to lend itself to their purposes; and spite of the pledges of Gen. Harrison, and the positive assurance of his friends, whilst they were seeking to elect him, all their professions are violated, and the Postmaster-General, the Quasi Abolitionist of New York, is the first to introduce the first stroke of the Guillotine into the territory of the Old Dominion. Very different indeed is this party in seeking office and in administering its functions'—Suppose whilst the professing Orators were addressing the Whig Convention in October last from the Portico of the Capitol, some one had risen, and pointing to the Museum, which was almost at their feet, and proclaimed "In yonder building is a Federal officer, against whom no just complaint can be made, as Postmaster of your city—Yet your Whig President will scarcely be warm in his seat, before Francis Granger shall violate all your pledges, and sacrifice this man as a victim to the passions of your leaders"—what would the Whig then have said to the outrage? How vehement would have been their denial—Yet such is the fact. All their professions are shamefully contemned—and that Postmaster is the first victim to Proscription in Virginia. People of this good Old Commonwealth, what say ye to their faith, their liberality, or their justice! Shame, shame upon them.

No. 2.—Dr. L. Martin has been removed from the Department of State. Proscription for opinion's sake! The alleged reason is, that he is the author of Vindex, and other publications. As a man of talents and of honor remarked on Thursday, "I would rather be the author of Vindex without office, than retain the office without the honors of the author."

The Hartford Times says, "We understand that Daniel Webster, Jr., with a companion, crowded into the State Department, within an hour after his father's confirmation, and told Dr. Martin, the amiable and excellent chief clerk, that his father had given him that post. Mr. Webster himself shortly after entered, and requested Dr. Martin to remain till next day. Such is a specimen of Federal decency and hatred of spoil." But is it really true, that Mr. Webster's son has succeeded? We have Whig authority also for it. "The Spy in Washington" (for Webb's Courier) writes on the 6th:

"Daniel Fletcher Webster was this day appointed under Secretary of State. This gentleman, during the Presidential contest, delivered several addresses in New York, which were highly complimented."

Yet, can it be true? Can it be true that the Premier is thus early feathering his nest? Martin's is the first removal perhaps of the new Administration: and his own son's the first subordinate appointment!—Richmond Enquirer.