Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-08-23

another, PROVIDED always, al ,ne "e'' ~
office bear his imtrimatnr. lie mas mere
Fore q right to procure assistance or hire !
clerk. as it is not otherwise ordered, during
the whole term of his Office. Besides the ma
ture of the Office held by Mr.. Stockton is
strictly ministerial and may therefore IN all
cases be delegated to constitutional extent
TO any one capable of performing its duties.
This power is at his entire risk-the resPon-
sibiity still rests upon him and cannot be re-
moved to the shoulders of a third person. al
though he really perform all the labours OF
the Office. The case is very different, tnousn,
with the register who is a judicial officer 10 a
certain extent as much as his honour the Z. J.
on the Bench. There al many acts which
no one can perform for him, and must De
done by him alone. Yet even he has right
| to employ all assistant or assistants, ana mas
done SO from time immemorial down to the
present. So that Mr.. Stockton least OF all
the public officers can be charged with NAL
feasance or neglect of office on the ground OF
employing assistance. The duties OF his Of
fee are we'll performed: All who know the
man know he never botches his work in Of
fice-civil or military. Whether he writes
every line is not the question. Qui facit fer
alum, facir her Sc, I've heard the lawyers
lsay. s'What think you of that Master
Brook" But the writer cannot conceive how
it is possible for man to hold two Offices at
the same time, l do not doubt however, he
might be taught by Mr.. Bennett to reconcile
lit to his conscience to hold dozen without
any greater difficulty than making out the
commissions. Like the man ill the play he
must have feeling demonstration OF the fact;
or as he is fond of scriptural illusions, he
: must feel before he can believe, like Thomas
of old.
The appointing power should not look to
J the number of Offices man may hold, but
rather to his capacity for the Office in ques-
F.. ton; and if he prove worthy and able Off
Ger, it is neither sound nor fair objection
that he holds fifty others, provided they are
not in the discharge of their functions and by
, the express provision of the constitution, un-
e tenable and incompatible. So that the scrip.
E tural paradox of serving two masters does
not apply to the offices of Clerk of the Peace
e and Rail Road Agent, until it be proved they
: are God and Mammon to each other. Now
t let the gentleman put this in the crucble o
: his ingenuity and venture to predict he viii
:, be able TO make neither more nor less OF it
d than that Rail Road Agent is not Clerk 0
y the Peace, or that a man out of office is not ;
IS man in office. O. E. D., as Euclid says.
: AS to the writer's hit at monopoly, hav
u nothing to do with it, The Rail Road Com
Z, pany is able to take care of itself as well a
of Of the many hundreds of travellers who dali
r entrust themselves to its delightful cars an
le luxurious steamboats,. There is great dea
le however in this same idea of monopoly
j, Surely if the most devoted attention to bus
SO ness and order and regularity in all its con
10 Germs, the utmost courtesy and politeness
e. strangers, and disposition to administer t
" the comfort and convenience of traveller.
Y can entitle the company to public favor, Sc
mt no reason why it should not monopolize a
ne the travelling between Baltimore and Philf
to delphia. As traveller l can say the Cal
ne are a treat, the steamboats, elegant, and CAY
be tans Jeffries and Chaytor as clever fellows
e. you will find between Maine and Georgia.
an STEAMBOAT.