The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-11-19
LETTER FROM w1LLIAM.
CEASrRAL TEXAS. Nov. 10. Isl

CEANTRAL TEXAS, Nov. 10, 1879.
EDITORS CLARION: The election is over
with yon and somebody is defeated. Some
one is defeated in New York and some one
in Ohio. The significance of these defeats
is said, by some, to be trifing. We shall
see.
1t is instructive after elections to see how
well every man who has been beaten, knows
how it was done, and what caused the ca
tastrophe. He sees it very clearly, and,
when he explains, you find nothing that
can subtract from his intellect or sagacitv.
The fault is laid at the door of some one
else. Oh vanity of varieties, saws Solomon.
and Mr.. Jones, and so say 1. Every candi-
date for Office thinks the office is seeking
the man and not the man the office. 1t is
vanity that produces the halueination. After
mature reflection and careful examination
of facts, Mr.. Jones is of the opinion that
the Office seeking the man belongs to some
prehistoric age or to some future period
Lambs and lions will lie down together in
peace and good fellowship-indeed the lamb
will seek the lion, when office seeks the man
to have plank in their platform against a
wild hunt after Office, but, at the same
time, every man who joined the Know
Nothings was on the wild hunt
have heard it said by a man who once
had good office, that there are few things
more more desirable than good office, and
when one loses such blessing, life is dull
thereafter. 'The post of honor is the pri-
vate station" reads pretty well and sounds
pretty well to one who holds office but the
average citizen has failed, up to date, to
appreciate the great truth of the saying,
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same frame of the average church member
when the certainty of hell is demonstrated
to him.
| 1t Is gross heterodoxy to deny the exis-
tence of a hell and the beauty of Gods
government, is magnifiej by ample pro-
vision for the wicked, yet the church MEM
Der of the period is little uncomfortable
at the idea-don't exactly, in his heart,
believe it, so far as he is concerned
thinks it quite proper for his neighbor.
The truth is, before the said church mem
Der is through his cogitation, upon the
necessity of hell for his acquaintance, he
feels no need of scripture arguments to
satisfy any one that hell is a fixed and
indispensable institution. All this is van
| ity.
| | must, however, speak more of officers
They are happy set of fellows; they are
genuine men and patriots. They keep the
affairs hot with the fires of liberty POlti-
cal principles originate with office holders,
and Mr. Jones says that, when popular
current, campaign political theories are
boiled down, they mean-put me in and
you out Mr.. Jones speaks plainly
There is another thing about officers that
is peculiar. You rarely see one of any
account, after he leaves an office that he
held for several years. Old governments
seeing this-knowing this keep a man
| always i'll Office. This last idea-fact-th
Office holding spoils citizen, should not be
overlooked, and is the best thing to USE in
| getting the good people to believe, that
''the post of honor, is the private station"
| l notice that office has been seeking Bro
David johnson again. When he was in
office before his fish trap went almost to
nothing and the effect of Bro. David was
such that am fearful if the good people of
Itawamba don't elect him he will be of no
account in the fish trap business. What is
curious to me, is, that the same Office that
! is pursuing Bro. Johnson if after Col.
Tison-another good man.
/ Whenever there is another good office
! looking after some one in your State, |
suppose Mr.. Jones, old as he is, and if he
will not serve, my next choice is Barney
Trice. These two men never seek office
and Office never seeks them, but as Gov.
Roberts of this State says, we must give
some office 1.-THE proper shoot" towards one
of the above named gentlemen.
| WILLIAM