American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-12
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an hydtlible Receipt By which p Q6cer
may rise to a most enuiabIe notoriety rtthout
the necessity Of trapeling the usual difficult and
ld6orrous path to fame. "
Let any public officer who may have crav-
ing ambition for distinction above his fellows,
no matter whence he comes, or for what pur-
pose he came to the Federal city, whether for a
small clerkship, and for the duties Of which
his capacity may have been inadequate, and
yet, by a strange and unexpected combination
of circumstance, instead of the clerkship he
came seeking he may have attained the honor
able post Of head Of bureau let such an one
say, 80 soon as he becomes fairly seated in his
Office, "assume the virtue if he has it not" of
great knowledge Of business in general, and
particularly an immediate and familiar acquain-
lance with every minuti@ Of his bureau, intui-
lively gained by him, where it takes others
years Of application to understand: let him
talk big Of accounts, and make his decisions with
stentorian voice, and, with determined air,
Sir Oracle like, exclude all argument upon any
matter on which he has pronounced his awful
dictum: let him in the course of time obtain
from Congress, on the score of economy, the
passage of law reducing the clerical force of
his Office, 1.-THE consequent sufferings of the
poor clerks need not be considered at all y and
increasing the salaries Of few favorites, from
whom he viii exact, Of course, quid pro quo in
some shape or other; such, for instance, as
writing letters for the press on his behalf, &c.,
SC. When the organization of his Office takes
place, under this law, let him be careful to re-
tain and promote to the highest grade two
clerks at least, who win be able to pen articles
in his praise--one to write to some central
point in the west--say for instance, Louisville,
Kentucky; the other to one of the large cities
northward, say Baltimore. The paper at Bal
| timore will circulate here very soon after pub
| LEGATION, and the august officer will very inn
medistely have the supreme satisfaction Of
smelling up the incense offered up by his
obliged fatterer. The clerk writing to the
west viii take care to have the paper contain.
ing his article, as soon as it returns by due
course Of mail transferred into the columns Of
some paper of this city--say for instance, thu
Republic and obtain from the editor thereo
his commendatory remarks about the prem
Uses, still lauding the officer in question to thu
skies as q nonpareil, and express in decided
terms the great loss the public service would
sustain il by any possibility the great individ
ual should, in despite of all persuasions, resigr
the Office for which he has accomplished sucl
great things. Is 938 fc8 Le
Thus officially strong and elevated far abov,
his oompeers, he can safely venture animadver
sion ON the conduct Of the highest officers Of tn,
Government, and censure publicly their act
with impunity. He may even venture so fal
as to denounce the President and his Admins
tration, for the alleged fatal embrace Of thei
party in New York with the woolly-hcadet
Seward men, and fear not, for he will have b,
this time arrived at such public favor and dis
tinction that the President will not dare to re
move him. As to browbeating Secretary o
War or q Commissioner of Indian Affairs, b,
will, from his high position, consider such ven
lures mere bagatellesIna ~ al3-uoH
Any officer wishing to obtain general sue
cess in his official career may safely act unde
this receipt, with the assurance Of its perfeo
! working, as it has been fully tried and prac
tised on, and its efficacy fully tested by dis
tingnished gentlemen now enjoying all the ad
vantages and privileges flowing from so soser
eign a remedy. p ta DocToR.