The removal, as it is called, of Mr. Goodrich, forms another subject of complaint.  Declarations by myself in favor of political tolerance, exhortations to harmony and affection in social intercourse, and to respect for the equal rights of the minority, have, on certain occasions, been quoted and misconstrued into assurances that the tenure of offices was to be undisturbed.  But could candor apply such a construction?  It is not indeed in the remonstrance that we find it; but it leads to the explanations which that calls for.  When it is considered, that during the late administration, those who were not of a particular sect of politics were excluded from all office; when, by a steady pursuit of this measure, nearly the whole offices of the United States were monopolized by that sect; when the public sentiment at length declared itself, and burst open the doors of honor and confidence to those whose opinions they more approved; was it to be imagined that this monopoly of office was still to be continued in the hands of the minority?  Does it violate their equal rights, to assert some rights in the majority also?  Is it political intolerance to claim a proportionate share in the direction of the public affairs?  Can they not harmonize in society unless they have every thing in their own hands?  If the will of the nation, manifested by their various elections, calls for an administration of government according with the opinions of those elected; if, for the fulfilment of that will, displacements are necessary, with whom can they so justly begin as with persons appointed in the last moments of an administration, not for its own aid, but to begin a career at the same time with their successors, by whom they had never been approved, and who could scarcely expect from them a cordial co-operation?  Mr Goodrich was one of these.  Was it proper for him to place himself in office, without knowing whether those whose agent he was to be, would have confidence in his agency?  Can the preference of another as the successor to Mr. Austin, be candidly called a removal of Mr. Goodrich?  If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained?  Those by death are few; by resignation none.  Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed?  This is a painful office.  But it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.  I proceed in the operation with deliberation and inquiry, that it may injure the best men least, and effect the purposes of justice and public utility with the least private distress; that it may be thrown, as much as possible, on delinquency, on oppression, on intolerance, on anti-revolutionary adherence to our enemies.