The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-18
The Dual Postmaster and Elcctor.

# is 4 painful impeachment in the path OF
progress that n provision of our Constitu-
ton discrimnates against the indefinite
multiplication OF Offices in the hands of
the Same individual. 1t is II great over
sight, in view of our later civil "a
ton, that while n Secretary of the Cab
met can be the head hummer OF cam
paign, humble Postmaster in the small
settlements cannot exc out his slender sti-
pend by the mileage and attendance at
the State capital TO cast his vote for Presi-
dent.
The greatest blessing to the inbred
rascal aud the congenital villain was
the decision of the United states Senate
in the case OF BELKNAP. 1t draws fine
line OF distinction between official and pr-
vate sin. After driving n thrifty busi-
ness in the profits of patronage and the
vending Of trading posts, the inculpnted
party resigns and is relieved of all guilt.
The Secretary could have been impeached,
hut the private BELKSAP stands robcd la
the garments of innocence. An this is con-
ducive to high purity OF office and clean
illness OF public life.
BY parity of construction, when a
Postmaster discovers that lac is ineligi-
bile to an elective office Ivy the fact
Of previous appointment, why should
he not cast or his disability 10y his own
volition! 1t is rs simple process a.
taking of his homcspun brecchcs when lie
courts the pillow OF his repose. Dates and
periods are of no consequence. An ante
dated resignation Will cover all that. Be
sides, that venerable relct of an early
glacial epoch, TAFT can make law with rs
easy fcrtinty of execution rs our late
rushlight of Georgia, AKERMAN, or the
extlngulshed luminary, the Oregonian
Landaulet WILLIAMS
Our Magma Charta is not yet wrought to
perfection. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments are an advance. but we are
still too complex in mechanism. Not TO
! complicatc the machinery beyond smooth
working, why not make the Postmaster
| General the head manager of all Prcsi-
genital elect ons CT o1icio, and let his
! deputies constitute tue electoral col
| legesi Let the Postmaster OF New
York aud Buffalo be our Senatorial rep
rosentation, and avert all geographical
! jeaou>ies by careful selection from
each Congressional District according
to rank and emolumentr The army
can then he dispensed with; and 1t Will
not he necessary to make the Gus
tom House at New Orleans a depot for
heavy aud light ordnance, or an arsenal
for Springfield muskets and Spencer
rifles of MULLIGAN-BLAINE royalty. OF
course the agents thus indicated can be
left In their action to the instincts of
| the OK to his master, and the inspiration
of the ass TO the tether of his CRIB.
! CHAMBERLAIN would then be IN no fear
of "hell aud Democratic shot guns -
and STEARNs would not need sentinel
at his from door, with an outlying picket
| At the opening of his orange orchard.
The lives of our heroic Governors are
! precious To the hearts OF their people. W,
must have them to keep South Carolina
IN hunt aud a howl of homicide. Florida
should be penal colony and Louisi
ana a spacious penitentiary mot made
| with hands" bounded by the water line
aud unencosed by moat or wall. Fold
up the map of Europe II need not bC
! opened again for twenty years. said
PITT after the battle Of AusterlitZ. And
we say, Pack away your Constitution un'
der the arches Of your Capitol IT is only
| ornamental and has no use.