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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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A pseudonymous correspondent mockingly seeks clarification on a clause in the Secretary's recent speech, which suggests that selecting talents indiscriminately based on intrinsic merit and abandoning political party standards of moral perfection will ensure continued national happiness. The writer feigns confusion, citing grandmotherly advice on the need for discrimination in selection.
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Perhaps some friend to the Secretary, (I do not presume to trouble his excellency with the question, may be induced to furnish an explanation for weaker heads, of the concluding clause in his last speech— "If talents shall be indiscriminately selected and rewarded for their intrinsic merit alone; and if in short the standard of political parties shall cease to be a measure of moral perfection, then we may long continue to be a happy people, &c."
Much was I confused at the bare proposition for this indiscriminate election of intrinsic merit, having always heard from my grandmother, that in order to select, I must always discriminate. Judge then of the state of my poor brain, when I came to the position that states that by ceasing to observe an important rule in life, we shall therefore continue to be happy.
Yours, with impatience.
TIMO: QUID NUNC.
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Author
Timo: Quid Nunc.
Recipient
Mr. Fenno
Main Argument
the writer satirically questions the logic in the secretary's speech claiming that indiscriminate selection of talents based on merit alone, without political party standards of moral perfection, will lead to ongoing happiness, contrasting it with the need for discrimination in selection.
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