Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-15
TFor the State Sentinel.l
Rotation i'm Office.

GENTLEMEN: people of Indiana have called
Convention to amend our Constitution, and de-,
gates chosen for that purpose.
Many salutary changes were proposed and dscusse..
during the Electing Judges by the people,
prohibiting the ingress of negroes requiring home
stead exemption; establishing general banking and other
corporation laws prohibiting the sale of State bonds,
borrowing funds by the Legislature, without the
of the people, &c Sc. All of which matters will be be-
fore the Convention, and thoroughly discussed.
Concerning rotation in office, the one term system,
but little has been said Why! Because the ms always
have great influence with the mass, and candidates
arc therefore shy Of the subject.
If man at all capacitated and once gets an Office
who can deny that he has double advantage, in WELD
ing influence any other man, however honest and
well qualified he may bel
Officers necessarily have business with number of
men-county officers with almost every man--and 10y
little attention and suavity of for the time beng,
they tie the voter for another for it is evident
all who observe such things, that men much
more natered and pleased by the attention Of an Office
holder: than a more marked respect or favor by
nonoicial or And hence, You are met at
the very threshold with " LET well enough alone " He
has done very well this term and we had-better put
him in again."
"Well sir is not his competitor equally well quail
fedf
81 suppose he is, but then have never tried him"
''No, will, according to your ererLasting
doctrine. For few die, and reslgn, or decline.
Come sir he has been examined 10y the proper persons
obtained his certificate of qualification, and Is very
worthy man."
'We, know all that, but there is use in turning
0at good officer"
"There is no turning out in the case my dear sir.
The present incumbent has served his time out, been
well paid for it, and goes out by limitation"
Same thing, sir, same thing as turning out; and
can't out a tried man for never have tried
Now, gentlemen, does this too much OF aris
tocracy for democratic peopel Ii il the very dregs,
the lees of the kngly doctrine of the Divine Right run
ming into the absurd laws OF primogenlture and titles oil
nobility.
The Dukes ard Counts. Barons and Earls, Of Old
England are the 10Th generation of the elder Of
County Sherifs Clerks Of Courts, Judges Of the Kings
Bench and High Constables of olden times.
stereotype argument against the one term system rs,
that 6 the people choose reeleet, II is democratic to
permit them do But srs, have not the people, IN
all time past, made men great and then bowed down to
them They render homage to the work OF their
hands, and will do t, because it is in human nature
to do so.
Gen Jackson, when in the u S. Senate, advocated a
change in National Constitution to that eliect-be-
cause he knew the tendency the people perpetuate
power in the hands of the that be- and deprecated
its stealthy encroachments upon liberty.
'Doth tyranny always begin
With noise and pomp and deaf ming din
OF musketry and drums
All no.
In stilest times it Oft creeps in
When sword and spear no conquests win,
1 And martial strains are dumb"
Therefore we should in our new Constitution erect
such barriers those encroachments will eradicate
aristocratic principles In the very germ.
In one Of our southern counties [GreeneI the Clerk
is in his third term making Fl ycarsand although
the county democratic and he not his posion gives
him that additional influence that he is rc-chosen
He also, holds (and know not hcr under our present
Constitution the two other responsible oces oil nc
corder and Auditor.
One office and term is the true pr,nciPle Of de-
mocracy. Yours truly, hlChOhf'