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Offices are created for the public, not for the incumbents. They nevertheless constitute fruitful rewards to merit and, when spontaneously conferred, are among the highest honors that a free people can bestow. To deserve them is worthy oi your ambition; but to depend upon them, as means of livelihood, would be unrea- soDable and uuwise, if not dangerous. A thirst for office is almost as bad as thirst for rum. The more either are indulged the more craving they become. Every re- petition of the potion but begets new de- sires, until finally. ;he passion, in one case. terminates in delirium tremens, and, in the other, in deIirium candidatum. have known many worthy man ruined in his usefulness and in his fortune. by this latter disease, and ultimately terminate his career under the complicated horrors of both mal- adies.

 In selecting your public agents, adopt the same caution that prudence would sug- gest you in private affairs choose those who are acquainted with the business in which you mean 10 emplOy thcm.-who have an established reputation for integrity, and who have shown an ability to manage a public trust by having conducted creditably and successfully their private affairs. Such men possess civil virtues, and merit civil re- wards. But distrust the man who reiter- ates his importuni,es for your vote or your influence, as wanting either good habits or good principles. The first should render him independent. of public aid, and the las, should make him ashamed to ask for it.

 Are we then to reject, as the bane ofour happiness, the honors and emoluments of office ! No; accept them, when profered, as mandate of duty, not as source ol wealth: as a compliment to your merit, and as the requital of an obligation which you owe to society. Accepted in this spir- it the duties will not seem onerous, nor the smolumenls worthy your exclusive regard. And when you have enjoyed the hoDors. and fulfilled the duties, abandon neither | your politics nor your religion because your fellow citizens happen to discover in your neiehbor qualities and merits equal or su- perior to your own. The spirit of free government forbids monopoly. Whether they impose a duty, or confer honor OE profit, offices should be shared by those