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our r'sa.igu ;-uis morr 20 by ruazou Of
Tie iaet that ere long another biennial
Congressional campaign .han hav,
been enacted In this Territory: "ItI.a|
ooncoied fact uat the people OF no
Other country arc 70 beset with the love
OF ofiice as are the people OF our own.
Our fathers, IN framing the Constl-
tut!on, and making all men ina sense
soVereigns, never imagined that so
many Of the sovercigns would claim
The right to wear the insignia and
usurp the powers and emoluments of
public station. We do not propose 70
join In the sentiment which Is enter
tained by many-that the old times
were better than the present-yet we
cannot but recall, Notwithstanding the
advancement made in some respects,
the superior method of the beginning.
and many years subsequent, when men
waited to be called upon, when the pub
lie took the initiative, itself invited the
meritorious and able, and received their
services, with no thought on either
Side, that any individual, district or
section had any right whatever to OFF,
cial place; when, too, rings OF conspir-
ators had never been invented. and put
pie, and when no man had "friends, +"
as by happy figure of speech they are
called, to urge his claims upon the peo
pc.
In our form Of government it was
thought VIC had made sufficient Orovis-
ion against usurpation and tyranny.
And we did, indeed, go so far, by
means Of the forms we devised, the
checks and balances we invented, and
by the general education we furnished,
as to make ourselves almost wholly Sc
cure against the sword and armies of
any Napoleon. The attempt of the
Southern 'Napoleons we found our
selves, at the loss of thousands upon
thousands, able to resist. But we have
not been wise enough to provide
against cunning usulp-r-.n We heSs
not lsnd forms that cooid eNCluuc lhe
dishonorable. If we have little cause
to fear an attack from violent treason
again, we have no adequate provision
to resist smiling treason, flattering
treason, legal treason. Men, ambitious
for honor, who make up their minds
that they will have place if they can
manage to manufacture maJorities, are
simply traitors to their country, for
they mean to govern without the con-
sent Of the governed.
And what is there that is to be called
honorable in an Office secured by man
agement, by purchase Of votes, by ma
Uorities manufactured out of people
THAT know nothing concerning free in
stitutions and free principles, and are
merely tools Of designing man? Is
1t the title man wants? Pass an act
A-he shall be called Honorable, or His
Xcellency, if he will submit to the
klsehood. Honorable names get to
bean disgrace in time, when worn by
hen who have no grace. Does a man
Iwant fame? Let him write his own
history, orget the author of Abbott's
NAPOLEON to write one for him. But
what kind of honor is that that does
not correspond to a mans own con-
sciousness of intrinsic worth? Fal-
staff concluded that honor could not
set a broken leg; it could much more
easily mend the fracture than it could
patch vast holes in mans seli-respect.
In fact, men most anxious for office are
men that are to be suspected of seeking
to drown by the voice of the multitude
their own assurances of nothingness.
4fa man has any true worth it gives
him a vast content. He has no more
the itch for popularapplause; he stands
already so high that public station fails
toexalt him. A man that honorably
desires to do the people good and to be
tlo;r co,.,,ont will find ,,-o,,s Of so,.,,;,, n.
whether the people know it or not. lie
will be content with the good he aim:
at and accomplishes, without an epau.
lette on his shoulder, star on hi,
breast, title to his name, or rod Of
office to drive the people with"
THE CURRENCY LAW.
A Washington dispatch Of rccen