6136. OFFICE-HOLDERS, Appointments.—[continued].
About appointments to
offices the rule is simple enough. The federalists
having been in exclusive possession of
them from the first origin of the party among
us, to the 3d of March, nine o'clock p. m. of
the evening, at twelve of which Mr. Adams
was to go out of office, their reason will acknowledge
the justice of giving vacancies, as
they happen, to those who have been so long
excluded, till the same general proportion
prevails in office which exists out of it.—
To Gideon Granger.
Ford ed., viii, 44.
(W.
March. 1801)
