Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-03-26
From the st. Louis Herald.

me as q candidate IOr mayor Oh the great city
of st. Louis? is a question every Office seeker
asks himself, without finding any answer, unless
it be to stay where he is, and do as he has done
and follow his nose around town as ne used tc
do. Most men think him born to rule, and the
time is coming when they will possess the pow
er to externiinate their race. Every benighted
fool thinks this-a man Of sense lets such things
alone. You give a child one apple, and it will
cry for another until it will have more than its
little arms and hands can hold, and all falls,
when terrible misfortune has happened, and
the child cries louder than ever Just, so with
some men of shallow minds and small quantity
of brains-they want this and that, and are new
er satisfied till they get all, and then all tum-
bles into ruin because the mind and brains
could not control all.
"a little learning is a dangerous thing.
Drink deep or taste not the pierean spring;
For shallow drhughts intoxicate the brain,
But drinking largely sObers us again.
Pretty well applied to the men of low calibre,
who think they are great, and strive to be so
without sense or reason. Such men are in the
way of good and worthy men; and keeping de-
cent men from intimating their willingness to
serve the public. As a general rule, "he that
conducts and manages his own domestic affairs
WIZ may be entrusted the management of 9TH
ers'; but he that is continually in the mud and
mire, head and heels in debt, running here and
there and everywhere, continually in hot water
and misery, 'burnt brandy will not save his ba-
con"-he should be avoided because of his
shallow brain.
Again, "any fool can make money, but it
takes wise head to take care of it after it is
made Because the man dresses well, is NOR
al and attentive to duty, does not warrant his
competency to fill an Office and discharge the
duty of mayor of so great city as St Louis.
Far from it: his capacity is too small to COM
prehend great matters. KsOp tell us the jack
daw picked up the feathers dropped by the pea
cock and stuck them in among his own, wanting
to be as great and beautiful bird as the pea
cock; but no sooner came in sight of the pea
cocks than he was Immediately stripped of his
peacocks or jackdaws afterwards, as neither
would own him. Just so with candidates for
Offices they assume amazing great wisdom and
understanding but when tested by the probe of
science and tact of art are devoid of all the
elements of qualification. 1t was the money
and some notice they desired. People did not
respect them in their low, humble station where
God had placed them, but must needs impose
their impudence upon reading and intelligent
people as sensible doings. So is silk purse
make out Of an old sow's ear" sensible. Go
away with your nonsense!
Generally speaking, men who want office are
the least qualified to fill any place; they are con-
tinually hunting up something to appease a
morbid appetite-want to get up where men of
science and judgment sit-desire notoriety
somewhat, and if they cannot get others to puff
them into notice for neither love nor money sit
,{osSn and puff themselves-tell long yarns Of
misery and afflictOn-how they have been skin
ned, and what hardships they have undergone
how many thousands and thousands they had
lost by this and that rascal, and run about the
neighborhOod telling lies on all the human fam
ily-not one ever escapes the ofice-seeker.-
Beautiful, sympathetic creature-talking non
sense all the time, and telling lies upon your
neighbors, backbiting and slandering from NOR
ming till night, and all night long. You cannot
pass an office seeker in the street but that he
has some fellow cornered up telling lies on his
neighbor because of the privacy, and if you
over hear anything, It's something after the
manner: I'll Straighten him-I'll make all sure,
then fix dead fall for him. Eternally lying
about one another, who would be a candidate
for Office and be compelled to resort to such low,
mean, device to ATTAIN an Office? none but syco-
plants, knaves and nudies-no man of any
pretensions to truth and honesty, because the
game is itself dishonest, untrue and indecent.
/ would just as soon hear little phice-6ce
dog bark as a candidate boasting of himself
and making loud speeches to tn e crowd. 1t is
insulting to common decency, good breeding,
and honorable:minded men-nOne such go to
hear rogues pirate about virtue-necessity knows
no law, DEMOCRAT.
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