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Excerpt from The Beginning of the Spoils System in the National Government, 1829-30 There spoke the man who was a gentleman to the core of his heart. If General washington would not appoint a friend because he was a friend, nor a partisan because he was a partisan, still less was he capable of removing an enemy because he was an enemy, or an opponent because he was an opponent. During his administra tion of eight years, he removed nine persons from office namely, six unimportant collectors, one district surveyor, one vice-consul, and one foreign minister. We all know that he recalled' Mr. Pinckney from Paris because that conservative gentleman was of fensive to the French Directory. The other dismissals were all for cause. Politics had nothing to do with one of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.