Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-08-07

the persons best qualified for places of
trust; and therefore. in some instances,
was obliged 10 act upon the information
Of others. That information, in general,
consisted not of facts, but of opinions,
and those often formed under the inilu-
ence Of interested motives, the partially
OF friendship, personal hostility, slight
acquaintance or the spirit OF party; and,
of course, they often proved incorrect.
Recommendations and petitions in favor
of candidates for particular Offices have
frequently been made; but in many in
stances it afterwards appeared, that
those who subscribed the recommended
| tons did not consider themselves res
ponSiblc for the character and conduct
of those whom they recommended. In
| deed, instances have occurred, when
those who RECOMMENDED the successful
candidates, havebeen the first to Join the
disappointed eXpectants, in censuring
the executive for making such appoint
ments. The candidates for Office them
selves, in too many instances, not salts
| fled with PROCURING recommendations,
have personally imhortuned for office;
but have found that o6iee-Seekers were
not always the best quahfed-that they
we're usually more anxious for the
honorS and emoiumentS IF office than TO
lhromote the interest Of the hubHc--and
that men ofmodest, una8suming merit
oughtto be preferred. TO my regret,
some men whom considered well quail
fed, declined office. To increase these
endorsements, difference OF opinion,
in few instances, existed between my
self and majority of the council, re-
spectng the qualification of certain indi-
; viduas for office. When this happened,
as it was necessary to fill the vacancy, if
the council declined to agree with me,
thought myself bound to consent to their
nomination. fn such cases ] was con-
sidered by the people responsibe for APP
pointmehts which should not otherwise
have made.
During the time Twas in Office an
unusual number of appointments were to
be made, including all the judges of the
courts Of law, those of probate excepted;
the sheriffs OF four counties; most Of the
justices OF the peace, and nearly all the
militia officers of the state.
i" In appointing judges, it was my sole
object to select men, of talent, Of legal
Information, Of strict integrity, and such
as deemed best qualified for those i'm
portant trusts. And with a view to ex-
clude, as far as practicable, the Shirt Of
! har'y from the temples of justice, and
to inspire general confidence in the
courts oflaw, in which every citizen has
a deep interest, / appointed men of diff
ferent political principles.
".As o6icea are created for Mebeneft
Qfthe fseofle, and not for The honor and
emoiument otthe c6icera, end as their
unnecessary increase has a tendency to
imhair The responsibility cfthe oficer,
and render the office less respectable, it
has been my object not to increase the
number Of justices Of heace 6eyond tie
limits zvhich the hR6Ac interest requir-
cd"
Domestic I1dustry--A writer in the
City of w ashIngton Gazette, on this sub
iect, remarks as follows - .,.
| We have fine climates, good soils, a
cheap government, industrious habits,
and more territorial wealth than the same
number of people ON any other section
of the globe, and yet we are embar-
rassed; exhibiting daily more coercion
for payments and petty law suits than
any l6,ooo,0Oo Of people on earth.
i In Philadelphia, alone, 10000 per-
sons are daily begging the manuiactur-
ers for work.-The price paid there by
the Commissary General, for making a
pair of pantaloons, or shirt, for soldier,
is IL l-2 cents. Thus, woman, to earn
81 so a week, must make two shirts, or
two pair of pantaloons, each day. In
New York, the same thing exists. I
have seen 600 women at ay-light be-
fore contingencies, in Greenwich
| street, soliciting work of manufacturer
1t is much the same all over the country,
from Philadelphia eastward, and yet VIC
are told by our infatuated southern plant
ers, that no part of this nation is in a
state for manufacturing though Connec-
ticut alone presents nearly as dense a
population as England, who are more in
genious, frugal and Industrious than any
people in Europe.
A gentleman of intelligence who has
made the subject of manufactures par
ticular study, has lately given US the fol-
lowing statement, which may be regard
ed as an interesting demonstration that