Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-08-04
A Step Backwards.

A New fOIk journal, III sudden glow at radI-
cal inspiration, has just revived doctrine which
certain character known in history by the name
Of Jack CGds attempted, unfortunately for himself
to introduce practically i'll England some four hun
dreL years ogo-namely, the prosecution and sup
preston OF EDUCATED POLITICIANS" The jour
nal TO which we are unable to name, because its
name is not given by the paper into which we find
the sentiment copied and from which we quote it
as follows:
'''The country has tried educated politicians for
the three or four Administrations last past and had
most wretchel, imOecIIe, plnmderng, retrOgreSSiye
G governments as the 1--WE think MaturaIJ cOnSeQu-
ence." alt is commended by the writer Continues
our contemporary that the people may do better
by selecting from among themselves farmers, me-
chances, and others. in preference to lawyers,
who generally Constitute the bulk of educated
politicians +"
'Dick. The fist thing we do, let's kill all the
lawyers.
'Cade. Nay, that mean to do. Is not this a
lamentable thing that OF the skin of an innocent
lambe should be made parchment? that parch-
ment, being scrubbed Ger, should undo a mani
Some say the bees stIngs. but say 'tts the bees
WAX; Tor did but seal once thing aud l was
mine own man since.
Smith. Here's to the clerk II Chatham, he can
write and read cast accompt.
'Cade. 0 monStrouS!
Smith. We took him setting of boys copies.
Cade. Here's a villain!
Smith. HAS book i'll his pocket with red let
terSint.
'Cade. Let me alone. Dost thou use to write
thy name. or hast thou mark 10 myself, like an
honest plain. dealing man?
'Clerk. Sir, thank God, have been so wen
brought up hat eau write my name.
EAll. He hath Confessed. AWAY with him. he's a
villain and traitor.
Cade. Away with him, say; hang him with
lis pen aud inklotn about his neck.'
Henry VI.
1t is not very long since we had occasion to IT.
buke the avowal of the same doctrine by no less u
parsonage than the present Governor of Tennes-
see, who. emulOuS possibly of the fame OF his
great prototype of the fifteenth century, under
took, IN his inaugural message, to cunte mn the
value of education in public men. We had no.
ped that this bright idea 1.-THE dark ages had been
confined TO his Excellency, but fluid that it is not.
Baltimore contemporary i'll commenting upon
the New York article has some excellent remarks,
but we think he has not exactly nit the point al
which the New York writer seems to aim. 1t is
not so much to lawyers he objects TO educated
men in our public councils. "The first thing we
do, let's kill all The Lulryers,' not because they
are lawyers, but because they are supposed TO be
men of education. After we have committed this
wholesome wholesale murder, let us make dill
gent search for every man who can read or write,
Tor this will show that he has had the elements oil
education, aud chang him with his pen aud ink.
horn about his neck" The most appropriate an
swer, therefore, that can be given to the iacobin
sentiment that we have 'tried educated politicians
long emough'' is that which the great master OF
human motive has furnished in his history Of
Jack CGde's rebellion. II his prophetic vision had
embodied before him the New York OF the Tennes.
see politician he could not have painted him more
TO the ltle than he has done in the few sentences
quoted above.
After the foregoing remarks were written, we
have seen, with as much surprise as regret, in
leading and influential Journal of New York, an
article recommending that the Federal Judiciary
the District, if not the Supreme Judges-shoulll
be made elective by periodical popular vote; and
Tor no other reason than because Judge KANE, of
Pennsylvania, has felt himself bound 10 obey tie
Constitution of the United States in receut case
OF abduction Of slaves, instead oil yielding himself,
body aud sould, to the behesis of fanalicism.-
Surely 'tis the very error of the moon; she comes
more the earth than she was wont, and makes
Men mad.H It is bad enuugh, in all conscience,
TO have State Judiciary elective; but If the time
is ever to come when the Sprene Judicial Tribu-
nal is 10 be composed OF men chosen by and de-
pendent on The vncilating favor of The popalace,
then, indeed, shall we have taken fatal step
bnckward.-Nat. IHteltigeneer.