Blue hens chicken & Delaware Democratic Whig. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1845-1848, 1845-11-21
CORRESPONDENCE.
For the Blue HENS Chicken.
No. III.


No. III.
find that " Native of Kent" is again out in
reply 10 my last Communication, and as ! told
sou should endeayor TO reply to his article, u
must comply with my promise although there
is little or nothing in it except repetition of
what he had said in his first communication
and great deal of the blank cartridge of per-
sonal abuse mot "unspent cannon balls'')
aimed at one, whom If we are to be led by his
miserable attempts at pruning, he supposes to-
be the author of the pieces signed Equal
Rights" His puns are intended, perhaps, to
draw my vigor up, but as my real name has
nothing 10 do with the question, as to whether
or not Kent and Sussex have been defnuded of
their just rights to the enjoyment Of office by
the grab-all clique, or with the question as to
whether there is need of a convention, or
whether the people desire it, shall still with
hold it from my " Native antagonist and his
coadjutors, and leave him to his coniectures.
| do not know him, nor do care TO know who
he is--one thing however, am assured of, he
has bad cause to sustain, and it is useless for
Thin to attempt by his twain repetitions" and
sarcastic personalities to uphold it. The fact
that Chancellor Ridgely was a Kent County
man, and that the present Senators were once
residents of Kent, neither of whom, believe,
were born here, nor do they reside here now
and that Mr.. McLane and Hon. A. Naudain,
3 the late Collectors &c. were natives of Kent,
Z, cannot convince the people of Kent that they
have been equally represented in the State Of
!; fees, no matter how often Native" assures us
that it does. Kentish men are too intelligent
: to be humbugged thus. They feel that they
a have been wronged---'s they know their right:
~ and lnnwin0 da ra maintain than y
But there are other amendments, besides III
{ 'ffoyision which | have advoca,ed, Of disuibu
y ting the State offices necessary to make GU
b constitution more in accordance with the tru
p spirit of Republicanism.
There is, perhaps, in no constitution, whethe
I State or Federal, always excepting the vet
one solitary feature that savors NOR
of the faint Of monarchy than that in our ow
! which gives to the Executive the power Of az
81 pointing nearly all the Offices in the State.
III | ask the advocates of the appointing systeI
=. upon what principle is it based, and what
50 the objection to making the county and Stat
~ officers electivel | have heard but one n
No Spouse to ny interrogatory which is an insu
AZ 10 the intelligence of the people of this Stat
ii. and is a fiat contradiction of the princlp
nv on which Republics are based. The onl
n. reply is that the masses have not sufficient il
in telligence to Judge Of the competency of cand
ice dates for Office and would therefore be as like
an to select bad officers as good ones. To this OIL
lection, may safely say that there is in my e
bic simaiion no people upon the globe, among who
,n- there is a more general diffusion Of knowledI
hc than among the people Of the Diamond Stat
rat Besides there is so much sociality among o
de- people, that it would scarcely be possible
Dre nominate any man for office, who is not to
frreaf n.-fanf Enotuf, hu narcnnc racidncr in :
lily most every neighborhood in the State; al
not whose fitness or incompetency for Office, won
IL not be fully understood. But again if Il
ior people are incompetent to decide in selectil
my the Registers, Prothonotaries, Clerks, &c. wi
IN should they be capable of choosing their Pr
az idents and Representatives in Congress! Is
small matter that the selection of the Oh
e Magistrate or a Representative in whose han
~ are, in great measure, committed the destin
~ oil twenty millions Of freemen, should be plac
~, .aI in the wrong hands or if the masses are
ignorant to Judge in the selection of subor
nate officers, what capacitates them to ma
L., choice of Governor, who has the select
y of all the restl If the people, on account
M their ignorance arc liable to err in the elect
inc lof a Clerk, Prothonotary or Register, h
nv much more irremediable the error if we fail
W. we have lately done) in tho selection ofo-sa
k~A 1T 5tfeaf 1hnsa fln@tnasA X ppHt AZ
rel select for US all the other officers in the sd
lsed II under the elective system we mistake in
ors, Letting the proper man to discharge the dut
ana of any particular Office, the evil is confined
that Office; il on the other hand we err in
ing. choice of Governor or President, it ramii
ous throughout all the departments of governmt
Ell But what does experience teach us2
ers. every inquirer after truth in this matter Il
FORD back and compare the Sheriiis Of either Of
me Counties with the Clerks, &c. and l will V
ines ture 10 say he will find that the office of She
in has heen as equally as well filled, as any of
0, to appointing Offices. It has been so here at LEI
TAR It is sound doctrine, / apprehend, that
be employer has the right, and is the proper |
son to select his own servants and agents
II o. Who employ the State and County Office
9een Do they transact the business of the Cover
Dc or the business of the peoplel They are
spa- public agents, and as SUCH the people ough
'en select them, and the right to do so, ought ne
. In to have been delegated out of their hands.
aS ..'. have touched but briefly on this subject
AZ Al, cause | only deem it necessary for the ma
~ to be placed before the people in order to
r their attention to it; for know that if they
|, :, only reflect upon it, they will at once see
and propriety of resuming the power Of choos
ter officers in their own hands where it prop
ana belongs. EQUAL RIGHTS