The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-06-28
Official Honesty.

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that are hourly taking place amongst
men, we must not lull ourselves into a
| fancied sense Of security, because the
form Of our government Is republican.
There are growing evils gradually
gaining strong hold upon the once
pure institutions Of this country, that
must (unless corrccted) throw The gov
eminent into anarchy and confusion
If not IN open war Of bayonets, for
spoils.' Not the least Of apparent
evils is 10 be found. in the want Of
official honesty and integrity Of Office
holders. mo man," as the True
Delta very correctly remarks I:
"No man, it would appear, enters
nowadays upon The discharge Of any
public trust impressed with anv inst
ifei of ha individual responsibility,
or affected by any apprehension sof
punishment. should he prove unfaifh-
fnl in the discharge Of his duty. On
the CONTRARY, he expects, no matter
what his personal turpitu1e. neglect,
or incapacity may be, to have the
whole power Of the party TO which he
ostensihlv belongs exercised in his
favor should the vigilance Of his enc
mics or the probiy ola superior official
ike hin2elf expose his Deficiencies or
proclaim his guilt.
How true this ia, we need only to
look about us to see. l. it not we'll
understood that the partizan aspirant
when he gets into place, shall use
every dollar of the public treasure,
upon which he can place his dishonest
hands, in order to help up the gamb-
ling land rata, from whose ranks he
comes? Does not this hold good
from the Presiden. of the Republic
himself, to the very lowest subaltern in
he Mayors Court of Pompeiil Do
not the "Cankers Of u long peace IN
country towns, chuck their heads to-
gether in dark corners to concoct plan
whereby each may be elevated to som
post at which each shall have author
ity to steal This is even so, and il
is a picture from which we turn Will
tears in our eyes, for the permanently
o. our institutions.
Look about You my countrymen.-
If there is any Patriotism, apart from
a piliering propensity, it should come
at once to the rescue ; for though the
s,vreignty Of the State is vested in
king people," there is no security, un-
less there IS some moral ard political
honesty TO steer clear Of the dark
clouds which gather in the distance.
What our text imports, has no ex-
istence in the 10th Century. There
is no such thing as Official Honesty"
And is it not robbing the people them
selves, when government function
AIRY, puts his hands without authority
into the money bags9
What are bonds and security 10 the
Government? Nothing. In one case
out of thousand there will be prose-
cution, when change takes place on
the political chess beard to throw the
opposition" into authority ; but this
can De silenced by the Universal pas
ficator.
The True Delta quotes as an illus
tration from a CORES pondent of the
New York Ev'ning Post.
BY way ofiIlus'raton | wish to re.
fer you to the signal case Of late
collector at San Francisco. In Janu-
airy or February last, just before the
late administration surrendered their.
keys of Office, there were *cored up
against this collector DEFICIENCIES to the
amount between eight and nine hun
dred thousand dollars The deli,-
quiut was good wing and after