Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1861-10-12
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Of the many blessings which this war will
produce. Davis and Stephens will be elected
without . CONTEST and if kind Providence
spares their lives, will fill their high posts
for six years. At the end Of their term there
may be q contest. but this will be only one
in twelve years. Farewell to all those wretch
ed assemblies Of corruption and intrigue
yeIeped ~national conventions! Farewell to
Presidential plotters, cliques and political
managers. Farewell to torchlight process
ions to monster meetings, to humbug party
cries and notices, and vagabond stumpe.sl
The older and middle-.ged classes Of our cit
liens will be left to pass the remainder OF
their lives undisturbed by the violence. the
vulgarity, and rowdy excuses which have
made our Presidential elections the saturnalia
ONCE -seekers will find their vocation gone
Their clamorous demand for reward Of their
partisan services, their Iog-rolling, intrigue
ing and toadying, will avail nothing for their
promotion. 1.-THE Confederate Constitution has
crushed out those wretched heresies of q
crazed or corrupt democracy, of rotation in
Office, and to the victors belong the spoils.'
The Offices all belong to those who get then
as long as they are honest and capable. Not
even the President can remove them without
cause. The just and truly democratic theo-
~ that the interest of the people, not the iu-
terest of individuals, will be consulted IN the
bestowal Of the Offices. il consecrated in our
rew Constitution. It 10 the interest of the
people to have tried and proven officials and
agents; it may be, and alas! too frequently
10, the interest Of individuals to displace them
for untried and inexperienced p rsons. Such
changes % these are worth ten times the
blood and treasure expended in the war.-N.
o. Deta.
II i . change worthy Of our Congress and
the people Of the Contederacy. Had they
made the term for ten years instead of six, the
change would have been far better. Elec-
tions have been the curse Of the country since
the days Of Washington. Politicians, and
their ~hansers-on ruined the old Republic,
and may yet ruin ours. 'Forewarned by ex.
psriencs, let us be forearuned for the future.
So soon ~ this wal shall have ended, let the
people Of every State Of the Confederacy re-
model their several Constitutions, and oktend
oil terms Of Office to ten yean, from Cover
nor-down to the constable Of the smallest
Justice's court. This aone, the log-rollers,
wire-puilers and political schemers Of all
classes, will be forced to turn their attention
10 SOM honorable means Of gaming . liveli-
hood. So odious and corrupt had the system of
electionserine become, that few honest cspa.
bic men could be found willing TO dabble in
it, filthy pools, and the consequence has been
that almost every department of our Fede-
raj and State affairs, was = nest Of corruption
and villsiny. Politicians never cared about
what they said or did 50 long - the much
coveted prize of Office was within their grasp.
Every man, woman and child in the country
knows this fact, and can only denied With
the most brazen %ehrontery. The cloud Of
Abolitionism when it fnt appeared st the
North, was no larger than . mans hand, yet
politicians svailed themselves Of il for their
own aggrandizement, and soon IL spread, I'M
til it broke up . once happy Union, and he's
deluged the land with the blood il children.
No man can deny this. Tie facts ere as glsr-
ing a. the MONDAY sur. And how soon, in our
own Republic, may not some political aspi-
rant blow discord into our midst for bis own
selfish purposes! We have oil seen and felt
the mischie.ou s tendency of the frequency
Of elections, and no time better than the
present to profit by the example.
Rotation in Office has long since exploded
- . most unmitisated kumbug. Its advo-
Gates contend that if We ind IN officer capa-
bic We can always retain him. Good argu-
ment we admit; but when did the planter,
the moneyed man, the merchant, the mechan-
iS, etc, in days gone by, endeavor t. keep
such men in place by working against the
Vaccinations Of the politician. They rarely
lid. They could not spare time from their
respective occupations to canvas, nor could
hey spend their time about greg shops and
rum holes to log-roll with the rabble who
mainly lived from election to election upon
wbat they could obtain from the politician
or services. The consequence was that those
having most at stake 10 public affairs lost all
interest, aud politicians Don had everything
heir own way. ia
Now extend all terms Of Office to such 4
lime % will force all political hucksters and
heir ~haogers-on to follow, Or learn, some
sonest occupation for 4 livelihood. Scour
,ut such scum, root aad branch, and the boz !
y polite will become healthy aud vigorous.
Tue LANcExs-M,s Reeisests.-The New
Orleans papers inform 10 that two regiments
lancers are about being formed there for
he defence Of the city. The Iances are now
icing made, the staff will be nine feet ip
enefh. with steel lances nine in:hes l,ne.