Letter of James Garland, to His Constituents (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Letter of James Garland, to His Constituents The number of subordinate officers at the discretion of the four principals. - This will be the beginning, but what will be the end none can with certainty predict; but judging of the future by the past, I augur nothing preservative of our free institutions, or beneficial to the people. I have no doubt there will be a rapid accumulation of both. In the address of the republican members of the Legislature of Virginia, which accompanied the immortal report of 1798. It is said: "If measures can mould Governments, and if an uncontrolled power of construction, is surrendered to those who administer them, their progress may be easily foreseen, and their end easily foretold. A lover of monarchy, who opens the treasures of corruption, by distributing emolument among devoted partisans, may at the same time be approaching his object, and deluding the people with professions of republicanism. He may confound monarchy and republicanism by the art of definition. He may varnish over the dexterity which ambition never fails to display, with the pliancy, of language, the seduction of expediency, or the prejudices of the times. And he may come at length to avow, that so extensive a territory as that of the United States, can only be governed by the energies of monarchy; that it cannot be defended except by standing armies; and that it cannot be united, except by consolidation." The measures of the Administration of John Adams, which tended to these ends, and which aroused the jealous enthusiasm of the republicans of that day, to determined and vigorous resistance, consisted, as they stated, "In fiscal systems and arrangements, which keep an host of commercial and wealthy individuals embodied and obedient to the mandates of the Treasury. "In armies and navies, which will, on the one hand, enlist the tendency of man to pay homage to his fellow creature, who can feed or honor him; and, on the other, employ the principle of fear, by punishing imaginary insurrections, under the pretence of preventive justice. "In the swarms of officers, civil and military, who can inculcate political tenets, tending to consolidation and monarchy, both by indulgencies and severities, and can act as spies over the free exercise of human reason. "In restraining the freedom of the press, and investing the Executive with legislative, executive, and judicial powers, over a numerous body of men. "And, that we may shorten the catalogue, in establishing, by successive precedents, such a mode of construing the constitution as will rapidly remove every restraint upon Federal power." If these objections against the Administration of John Adams, with its limited number of public officers, small amount of public expenditure, and proposed regular army were just, how much more strongly do they apply to the present Administration, with its swarm of office-holders, immense amount of expenditure, army, and proposed organization of an active militia force, general consolidating measures? If this state of things be maturely considered, we can in truth say, in the language of that address, "Let history be consulted; let the man of experience reflect; nay, let the artificers of monarchy be asked, what further materials they can need for building up their favorite system." In the report of Mr. Benton in 1826, from the committee on Executive Patronage, of which Mr. Van Buren was a member, the sources and influence of executive patronage are thus described: "To be able to show to the Senate a full and perfect view of the power and workings of Federal patronage, the committee addressed a note, immediately after they were charged with this inquiry, to each o
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