Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-06-16
Correspondence o: tho ies!sburs Chronicle.
PuILADA., June l3, 1854.

Correspondence o: tho LEV !sburs Chronicle.
PuILADA., June l3, 1854.
The assertion 1 made some weeks ago,
il regard to tine feeling manifest on the
subject of trade in foreign votes-the
thrusting Of men into Office entirely Unfit,
either Us regards talents, character or
sympatbies-aud the humiliating position
Of the present administration, has been
more than confirmed in our late Municipal
election. 1t would appear extravagaut to
ssser: that the beneficial effects Of the
great change arc apparent already, but
really there seemed to ME to be vast i'm
provement in the appearance Of the curb
stone patriots who thronged the State
House Row" yesterday at the Inauguration
Of Councils. Hurrah for reform admin
istrations, say if only for that one
thing.
You have no doubt noticed in your
visits to our Courts, the pitiablc class Of
men I speak of-men who seem to have
no business on earth but that Of standing
in groups On the broad pavcments Of the
Grow" smoking bad scgars, chewing bad
tobacco, and drinking worse rum-discuss-
ing ward politics, clamoriug at political
meetings, and controlling delegate elec-
tions-those Egyptian egg-ovens Of poll
tics, whose premature aud unaedged abor-
tions are thrust upon that credulous old
hen, the public, who is compelled to
"scratch" for the dunshill breed, until
she discovers their true race by the
color Of the FIRST feather, and then sends
them back to the ranks they sprung from.
There are few old campaigners still to
be found around those haunts, who re-
member to have seen almost twenty years
ago following precisely the same business.
They arc generally men who at an early
age, cherish cOnceit that they were not
made to work, being born with aspirations
too high to be cramped at the bench or
the anvil, or even the desk. The first
step is ward politics; by degrees their
ideas reach higher, until they finally bring
sp where We began, at the 4" Row, "'when
they fret their ''biief hour upon the stage"
aud then make room for others.
If you could listen to those fellows
nen,I can not call them-talk Of the pria-
eipIes involved in certain questions, and
echo the lodging sOphistry Of Constitu-
.ionaI rights, and scruples, and then hunt
up their suffering families-they all have
families, for who would forfeit the chance
Of giving his country a; President?-the
poor wife with her babe strapped in its
chair, working for a miserable Subsistence,
.s the wash tub or the needle; the half
dozen Of elder urchins at large, uneducated
and uncared for, and all their comforts
sunk in that brutal father and husband !;
then reflect that all this misery is in a
great measure brought ty the honorable
gentlemen who, vcgetatiDg in our public
Offices, have lad constant resort to those
simple tools, in their strivings for place
keeping them inflated With hopes never to
Be realized, until they are no.longer 6t for
either daily toll or domestic duties, and
become slaves to passion akin to that of
poor Miss Elite, and the victims of the
court Of Chancery, l think you would
have . smaller opinion Of those gentry,
than any phase Of politics to oe met with
10 the country can possibly give you.
To-day the new Mayor will be inaugura-
ted, then the new machinery viii make a
tsiA trip. Public expectation is on tiptoe
b see how far the cherished reforms will
be carried out by the new government. 1t
s not presumins to prophecy, to say that
there viii be much disappointment, not
from any failure in the pledges given, but
Spm the extravagant hopes generally in
obliged in
We Ill have some right 10 Ibok for the
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