The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-03-20
Aspiration.

Aspiration.
There has never been anything like thu
present crop of aspirants. Washington il
reported to have been, for weeks, inundated
ovcr-run, with applicants for position, while
it world be safe to say that there is an av
eragc Of ten applicants for every Northern
Post Office worth twenty five dollars a year
and over. In the contest for U. S. Senator
from Pennsylvania, which has just resulted
| in the election Of the celebrated 'sProyiso'
WiLMoT, IAN able man, by the way,) there
were no less than THIRTY ONE candidates
entered; how many more there may have
been whose names were modestly at the
service of their friends when propitous
moment should arrive, VIC cannot say ITO
the victors belong the spols," is an article
Of faith in politics which Mr.. Marcy recciv-
cd many curses for enunciating; but the
student of American political history, since
1882, can testify to the fact that however
the ''outs" condemn the sentiment rcver-
sal of positions with the ''ins'' always de-
velops the practice. We are not surprised
that the opposition want the Offices, but it
docs astonish us slightly to mark such a
sudden attack on the Treasury; they might
have waited a few days till "Old Abe had
got his axe ground, his gluts made, his best
timber selected, and all that kind of thing,
before they swarmed around him. The
Inaugural says: "Nothing valuable is lost
by delay" but the wide awake chaps efthe
North think they know better, aud hence
they choose an carly occasion to ''pitchin."
From hotel and boarding house reports,
POSSIBLY police reports are also included il
is estimated that for the first week after the
4th there were. fifteen thousand pap hunters
in the Federal city. This immense personal
attendance indicates corps dc reserve at
home exceeding one hundred thousand
Of this army but comparatively small
number can have a teat, and hence the
country may expect to hear q squalling
which will entirely blot out the recollection
Of the Pierce scramble and subsequent dis
satisfaction. If the Republican party had
no other element of disintcgration than
this irrepressiblc oflice-bcgging, it, alone,
would be sufficient to split it into fragments;
but there arc gravcr questions agitating the
country, and it will be but short time be-
fore there will be one Constitutional Union
or Democratic party, embodying tho re-
fecting and patriotic Of all organizations,
and a radical, feather-cdgcd, Excter-IIall
Bcecher-Stow, Garrison faction, whosclight
will be like the the baleful ignes .fatei Of our
swamps, pale or brilliant in exact proper
ton to the amount Of miasma in the Sec
ton of country which may be SO unfortu-
nate as to develop it.
In reading Of Western arrivals at Wash
ington, as noticed by correspondents of
Eastern newspapers, one is struck with the
smart style of language INDUCED in.--
Western office-huntcrs are all long, quaint,
bony, Lincoln-looking men; awkard, coarse
and ignorant; going into public offices which
they aspire to fill, inquiring of the incum-
bents what the pay is, asking the privilege
Of taking bread and cheese out of their car
pet sacks and gnawing their fill making
cute speeches corresponding with the sup
posed ignorance Of their line of longitude,
and so on and so forth.
Now most Western people who travel
East on business, were born and partly
raised in the East, and if they are dumb
and awkward, they were unfortunate in birth
or culture; there is nothing in the West cal
culated to make q fool of man, and we in
sist that Western were frost-bitten before
they left the Atlantic side Of the mountains.
1t is not true, however, that Western peo-
pie are so ungainly and repulsive as these
smart correspondents would represent
Many of them may not be handsome, ABE
for instance, but lack Of beauty never au-
gurs lack Of sensc-few Of them, are like
Clarence, designed to "caper nimbly in
lady's chamber" nor are they so CONVEX.
SAINT with the style Of official burglary
which is growing extremely popular >
among the residents Of Washington and
New York; their clothing is, perhaps, not
so well fitted to their unpadded forms, but
1t is paid for: their carpet sacks" are no,
so imposing in the baggage room as large
brass nailed trunk may be, but as they rely
more on what they are able to do financially
than they do upon what they want to ap
pear, they have no occasion to transport
large, empty trunks as security for a weeks
board at Browns or Wizards. Western
men are pretty good men. Eastern talen
sometimes beats them on trade, but FRAUD
of some kind is generally the aid Of TIL
eastern sharper: where judgment and ;
knowledge of business are depended on, thu
IIoosier, the Sucker, the Badger, and the
Hawkeye will hold his own every time
while for genuine, unaffected politencss
1--WE mean kindness, the basis of politeness
the western man is decidedly ahead. w,
are glad we have Western President, .
plain, blunt man. He may be no ornamcn
to Washington society he may be una
bic to gabblc French Or sing Chinese, bu
We venture to say he will set an example Q
social case, and demand evidences of off
cial integrity which will do tbs toadics q
the Federal city ''heap" Of good. S
mote it be. tf@
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