Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-09-15


We are weary Of the sight of superanuated
politicians who have infested community with an
endurance beyond all other pcsilence. They
are more pertinacious and immortal than Italian
beggars, more pestilent TO the State than pau
perism and crime combined, more indestructbe
Than bad fame. 1t seems as though the decree oil
God couldn't kill them too dead to be started
lolt on end by hope Of office. Too lazy to work
too honest TO steal, too proud to beg for common
charity, and without talent to distinguish them
selves or TO render any important official service,
they are eternaly importunng for office, and
obstnately refuse TO be dead though eager
charity would willingly afford them a strong coffin.
They iniest Montgomery street, besiege the
Capital, cumber every considerable town, climb
on all platforms, thrust themselves in front Of
every town meeting, head testimonials to actors
issue addresses to the people, and bore into every
political dug out, no matter how small or great
It's tonnage. For every Office, from Tax Collector
to United States Senator, there are numbers OF
these antique mendicants whose brazen fronts
are eternally before the public.
In Heavens name, have we no better talent
that these obsolete, goneout fixtures should be
forever required? Do they intend to keep run
ming for Office until, in decreptude of old age
they hirpe into the grave, still asking for nom
nation? viii even the unyielding grave retain
them, SO that crawling with revelling worms,
and dripping with the horrible damps Of the
hhONl siOuuu, tUcy Will not COiHc lOIlu 10 lICSI
conventions corrupt legislatures, and disgrace
the intelligence Of an intelligent State? They
ought to know that official timber, suffered in
important place in backwoods times, will not dc
now The day is not present, and will not come
when unsuccessful practitioners of the professions
who failed Of distinctions in border country
towns, and in competition with the meanes
talent may satisfactorily represent reading
and thinking people on the bench, in the legis
lative chamber or in congress Why, there art
men in this State who have never done any ythinI
but importunc and cumber important Office who
could not inteligently state the object of a
town meeting or ascertain the qualifications Of q
dstrict school master, and who could not sue
cessfully defend an innocent hummer in a Gala.
boose court, with fifty witnesses to swear an alaJi
Yet they want to be legislators, governors, Judges
and senators, by their braZen eiirontry crowd
out capable citizens, whose intelligence would
honor our State. These are the indestructbe
vcrmin which have eaten the life out of the Dem
ccratic party, and have disgusted and turned
away hundreds who, in some new political organ
izatiQns, hope to accomplish their eXtirpation
and relieve the public from their tenacious grasp
Go to The mechanic shop, to the field of mine
anywhere, and you will discover superior intelli.
gence, better educated, more practical men, and
wOrther of the places forever infested by obsolete
presumption and Ineffective pertinacity. A
plague that would rid the country of them would
be wise and merciful providence a casualty
OF food or fire, eaying nothing but unincumber-
ed space, could hardly be estimated an irrepa-
rabe misfortune if such means were necessary
TO remove them. They won't die they can I
make living in any other country they can't
work they are not fit for any of the professions
therefore, until relieved by tardy old age, or,
perhaps, the final consnmmaton Of all things,
we shall have to keep sending them to the Legis-
lat4re, or to Congress, occasionally electing one
OF the older ones to the Presidency, or recon-
mending him 10 Cabinet appointment. But the
curse of political bummerism is on the country
the road to the capital, State and National is
lined with them every convention is besieged
by them, and gathering renewed vigor in ad-
vAneemcnt Of age, they seem to rise as they rot
-EUentng .Ntror.