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»*g-I of*•hm4 4m.m,kFor Tbs Tribune.Mr. Editor: 11 Proscription! Proscription ! ” was but ashort time since the hue and cry of every Loco*Foco printthroughout the City and State, because Mr. Curtis saw fit toremove about a fifth part of (be Custom-House Officers andappoint more capable men to their places; but a general si-knee seems to have eeireipe them, all since Mr* MayorMorris commenced hi 4 tib* sweep1 throughout tlti WatchDepartment «f this c%. This worthy gentleman ea Batur-fcy last catmd to be discharged from his situation is Turn hey and Doorkeeper of the Watch-House, old Johs Pkzst-IM, who bis grown old in the service of the City, having been for thirty years a Watchman, and, when incapacitated mn further active service by a white swelling on the knee, placed in the situation which, till last week, he filled faithfully iad satisfactorily.Here is a man with a family depending upon his scanty salary for support and sustenance, and whose misfortune prevents his seeking other employment, turned out to beggary and destitution to make room for some recent convert to Lo-co-Focoism; and this, too, done by the very men who, not a month since, were so loud in their denunciations of Whig injustice ” and “ Whig proscription.” Oh shame ! where is thy blush ?Perhaps when viewed from the dunghill of Loco*Focoism, cases such as these may assume a different aspect; but to me it appears the very essence of party malice and degrading retaliation, such as the Whigs never have manifested, and it is to be hoped never will. If Mr. Morris can stoop sojow to gratify partisan indignation, what despicable meanness is there of which the party, whose head and front he is in this City, cannot be capable ? Jssticx.True, every word of it; but Justioe will lose nothing by keeping cool. As to that last query, we ca n't answer it.— We may as well allude here to a base paragraph in yesterday’s Herald, complimenting the Mayor for his dismissal of Whig Watchmen. We agree with the Herald that there is a “ want of efficiency and organization in the night-watch system,” and that “a large number of the Watchmen have been found lazy, indolent and utterly unfit for duty; ” but we carmot see how the Watch is to be improved by retaining in office these “ dumb dogs,” and kicking from office every one not like them. We are assured, on the best authority, that most of the Whigs displaced are honest, upright, and many of them pious men ; and that the worshipful Mayor, in the intensity of his zeal for an “ efficient organization,” has given their posts in some instances to shiftless, drunken louts, whom be would not tr Jst with his private papers for an hour. But high examples are often contagious; * unlawful seizures * may come in vogue, and the Mayor find reason to repent his rashness in turning from office faithful Watchmen because they chanced to be opposed to all kinds of papeMmatching. We are glad to see, by the way, that the Evening Post has the manliness to denounce this act of petty proscription. Ss far as we are aware, it is quite without precedent in our own city, though we recollect that when that noted Loco-Foco, George M. Dallas, was first elected Mayor of Philadelphia, one of his earliest official acts was to discharge every Watchman in the city against whom there was presumptive evidence of his being a Whig. The result of this step was, that those ejected sued the Corporation and recovered full pay up to the following January.
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Albany Log Cabin
Albany, New York, US
Sat, Sep 04, 1841
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