The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-16

D. IN the state, speaks IN the #IoEoWnS strain
l. the present race of Office seekers:
ia APPLICATION FOR OFF1cE-seeing. aswe da
i ydo, the immense number Of applicants an
: supplicants for public employment in this coun
try, where comfortable and independent sup
II port from decent industry is so easy to obtain
TO we have often asked ourselves what must b
d tie condition Of place dispensing public men ]
.e amy of the densely populated nations Of Eu
/, rope, where the means of obtaining tie mos
!: nleagre livelihood are SO difficult, if otfic
e begging be as rife there as it is on this sid
l. of the Atlantic, In this goodly city of Ney
e Orleans alone the number of men looking for
n or living in expectancy of public employment
of some sort or another, cannot certainly fal
} short of ten thousand, or one-third the en-
; tire male adult population of the place. ,
If Where such 4 state Of affairs exists, wher
. so many live who are indisposed to create
! wealth, and only hope too to live by being
u uuartered upon the industry and enterprise 0
Il the laborious, can We wonder at the enormous
t increase of public burdens, the profigate legis
S lation of States and cities, the frightful de
= moralization which is every where apparent ii
the populous cities Of the Union Need sur.
: prise be expressed that Philadelphia is bank
rIupt; Chicago, otherwise SO prosperous, with
out dollar in her municipal treasury; San
Francisco, the aurferous, reduced to the most
equivocal financial expedients; New Orleans
creditless. when in each of these cities so tri-
fling a disparity of numbers exists between
those who labor and the irightful swarm Of
drones, who study office getting, and practice
the innumerabe shifts to which the dexterous
and INSCRIPTIONS in politics resort to change
parties, discomft or elect individuals for their
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and with corresponding
injury to the best interests of the common
wealth A.
Recently some couple Of dozen offices were
open to public condensation by the aspiring in
this city A dozen or more murders-some OF
them Of peculiar atrocity, all of them such as
ought to provoke the vengeance of Heaven
were perpetrated by office hunting harpies, or
their hired retainers, to determine the result
this way Or that. Many got permanently
manned, not few seriously injured, for the
like cause on the same occasion; perjury was
common, and law and order disappeared for
weeks together from the place. and yet all
these atrocities outrages and crimes, were sole
" and exclusively attributable to the .Swild
hunt after office, the Unsuitable appetite of
an immense number to obtain lazy bread in
land, for the thrifty and industrious, exceeding
all others for the facility with which comfort
may be obtained and independence perma
nently secured. ,.- .'.' y. '5s.zs'ss@ .e
We apply these remarks to no particular
party and faction, they are intended for each
and all, for they are alike applicable to all |
and there are, we deeply and painfully regret
to say, no exceptions.
Our readers are aware that governor has |
ranan41. hoa,, ,.1oo+aI ~ tb;c Stoto ", le.a ,,+
ronage in this city extends, probably, to the !
appointment of some fifty Or sixty individuals
to offices profitable or honorary. Among these
there are perhaps dozen peculiarly profta-
BILE. and Of this dozen, some three or four
enormously lucrative. -' pas
When we say that for these fifty or sixty Of
fees there are at least fifteen hundred persons
or remotely living in hopes of OBJ
tanning them, we may be suspected of exag-
geration, but we are not guilty oft, for we are
well satfed that fully that number aspire with
more or less sanguineness of idea. The eff
feet every way is most pernicious, both on gov
errors and governed-upon governors, because
The homage of bcggars leads them to the en- /,
of the most absurd notions of their
own Importance and talents-upon governed, ,
oy converting them into dcceitful sycophants, !
destitute Of spirit, maniness, or honor. Il +
The press is not exempt from the effect of '
he general malady; indeed, we are some r
lines disposed to think it is a primary source /
If its exstence--certainly, if not the cause, it :
$ the means Of greatly aggravating its worst +
;ymtoms. For instance, we have heard an j.
EDITOR remarksin reply to an expression Of as a
enlistment that he should have praised such
| governor. senator, or congressman, " Oh, O
know he is id drunken corrupt, or pro- |,
ligate blackleg, or fool, but you know his g
riends expect civil things to be said Of him, Il
md it is not in my interest to do otherwise" O
t is in this spirit our whole affairs are now 4
and the reason must be sought W
n the unsuitable and all but universal thirst ii
or office prevailing the country, and sapping Il
he foundations of our republican system fc
Without caring straw, who likes or dis a
kes these views, we unhestatingly declare a
hem to be true, and our convictions are, that Il
a remedy for the prevailing system be not h
peedily discovered and applied, our lease of fc
berty and equality is near its contamination. k
The Vienna Ost DeutschePost says, the d d
fficial nomination of ehevaer Hulsemann to f,
he post of resident minister of the emperor Of tt
uStiid DIT W WI, tilh IuttcdSt -
,hich has been made in the organisation four lo
lission in the United States, indicates new Z
tepin Austrian diplomacy. Up to the pre- hi
ent time the United States have been to Aus
ia a sort of scarecrow, nation of semi-civil- 81
led barbarians, with which it was wise to avoid :
Il contact A wise policy however, does not So
elieve that danger ceases because you close tt
our eyes to it. Austria does well then to pre- W
are to take her proper position in the events az
which, sooner or later the United States are ~
estned to be the scene. s-- *t@ @AsH Ii
This chevalier Hulsemann, is the same indi- in
ual whom Daniel Webster upset with his Gel p1
brated letter, and to whom secretary Marcy :"
lso administered a severe castigation.s We r.
ope that he will now behave himself 45i 70 tp
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.sGEoFFRET MoNcroN, OF the Faithless Guar p
ian,'' is the title of new romance, for COPY -,
which we are indebted to Messrs. Dewitt d N
davenport New York It is from the nan ~ til