The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-10-25
ROTATION IN OFFICE.

Men should always regard the rights
and interests of their fellow men; and
especially should men in high official
position, placed there by the generous
regard of their fellow men, and on ac-
count of their supposed knowledge of,
and tender regard for, the rights OF
others, ever scrupulously watch, and
not only regard but also protect the
rights of their fellow citizens. And
men in position usually do, for a time,
assume to think we'll of and even love
their friends who so generously placed
them in position and power, but too Of
ten, like the bad dollar, who for a short
time after the debt is created, is profuse
with his faithful promises and underta-
kings to pay the debt; but as time pass
cs, he not only forgets to pay but Tor
gets TO make promises, and when a GER
tain time has elapsed he ensconces him
self behind the statute of limitations
and pays his benefactor by having the
law to say to him-yOu have beer TOO
generous and delayed enforcing your
riggs too lOng-and now the poor debt
or is entitled to your money absolutely.
Or like the man, who by the generos-
ity of a friend has been placed in pos
session of a field, with the privilege OF
cultivating and tilling it and for the
time reaping the entire benefits oil IL,
for a short time swells almost to burst
ing with generous gratitude to his ben
cfactor, but in q short time he learns
that If he will claim said field as his
own and hold and occupy it and claim
ia adversely to his friend for the period
of seven years, that the law VIII give III
to him in fee--at once begins to talk
about It as his field, and unconceiving
to the world, as he thinks, gradually
places himself within the terms OF the
law, and after seven years have thus
expired, and ills bcnefactor wishes
again to resume possession and control
Of his field and reap its productions, he
is Quietly reminded by the grateful ten
ant that he has had uninterrupted pos
session of the field for seven years,
claiming 1t as his own, and that the
right of his benefactoY to re7enter said
field is now barred by time, and he
will henceforth hold it TO himself and
his heirs forever in fee. SO the manly
bosom of the Office holder, placed In
power and position by the generous
and sometimes unmerited vote of n free
and generous people, for a short time
swells and gushcs with grateful kind
ness to his many disinterested friends;
and he is willing to discommode himself
In WAYS for their especial comfort anu
happiness; but long before his special
term of Office has expired he learns that
the custom of duplicati ng terms Of oilice
has become almost II not entirely n po-
litical Statute Of Limitations and at
once concludes that he will repay his
generous friends by just holding on to
the Office for ut least another Term
ever If II amounts to half n lifetime.
And this has become a rule Of II dis
tinguished, grateful and noble office
hohlors, from justice of the peace and
constable to Governor of the State and
member of Congress. The hnd-heart-
cd people are told, ''you have placed
mte'in power for one term-perhaps for
eyen eight years-but you must ratify
what ! have done in the Important po-
sition, and thai can only be done by