Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-09-03
The Supreme Judges--GOv. Vhitconb's
Course acknowledged TO be right by "a
WING Editor.

We find the following remarks. in relation TO the
Supreme Judges in the Brookvile American, "a Wing
pePcr,) of August 2lsl:
ave believe in rotation in Office, both from expe-
diency and Justice. If man has held an office for
one terni instead Of being entitled to for second
term he has less claims to 1t than any other citizen
in the State. We Sometimes pamper aud puff some
of our public men until they really think the govern
ment cannot exist unless they at the head Of
alTairs-and to turn them out almost creates riot or
revolution. An instance of this kind has been wit
messed with our Supreme bench. We never blamed
Whitcomb for not appointing the old Judges lie
should not have done it. They had served the State
long and faithfully. If it burthen to them,
they had sacrificed enough OF their ease end comfort
for the public good. If it was honorable and pro-
fiable station, it but poor compliment TO the
able and distinguished bar of State to say there
are none others qualified 10 FL the station We have
not word OF whisper against the old Judges. They
were GOOD and able men. But they had held the Office
one, two aud three terms and IN justice they had no
right to ask expect 1t longer. The blessings as
well as the burthens of this government: should be
equally distributed. But we object TO Whltcombs
course for attempting to make our Supreme Court a
political engine Had lie swept from the bench Judge
Blackford with the Others and appointed the best men
in the State to their places without regard TO party
it would have been one of the best aud greatest acts
of his life They, and the old Office holding hunkers,
should be taught that the Offices do not belong to them
but the people, and that the people determined
TO I'll them by turns
ave therefore hope the present incumbents will
be allowed to retire private life at the expiration
of their terms Of Office, and that good men, without
regard to party will be selected In their places"
That the doctrine here avowed by the American is
correct 10 the main, few democrats viii doubt We
copy the extract therefore, for the purpose Of
forcing the doctrine and the principle Of rotation in
Office but rather a rebuke to Wing politicians and
IF fI.o.r IL,
atty and honesty in avowing the doctrine at late
an hour as he does There is something sinister in
IT, no doubt He is guilty Of sin of omission, if not
of commission; and frequently the former is worse
than the latter it involves not only moral turpitude,
but moral corardice also lie was willing before cleo
ton, that the Wing party should have all the advan
tages which ISSUE wrong in principle and injurious
III practice, might afford them; he
mouse But now, fOrsOoth, when the Wing party are
fairly laid to the land this question well
Others the editor of the American, with great show
of magnanimity and independence, boldly admits that
the Wing doctrine is anti-republican and wrong.
From this the people infer at all times how much
Wing professions worth. According to their own
confessions they are but msy sophistrY and wreched
preexts. This is certainly the predicament of the
editor of the "American," and his present declara
TONS instead of being carried to the credit of his
honesty should only be considered as an admission
of his treachery to the rule of right At best, he
stands in no better light than that CT Estates wit
ness" against his own party. He aided and abetted
in the commission of the wrong, and now he 5erayS.