Alexandria Gazette

OFFICE SEEKING.
N. York Correspondence of Nat. Intelligencer.

I am sorry to state that an undignified and unworthy scramble for place has already commenced in this city. We are going about getting other men to sign their names to papers requesting General Harrison to give them such and such an office! If I know the character of that well-schooled and well disciplined man, whole reams of paper will have no effect upon him in the distribution of offices, and particularly when they come from such a Babylon as this, where it is the easiest thing to copy the directory entire, or to manufacture names at will. I have alluded to the subject, because nowhere ought society to be agitated by this business of getting names—a custom borrowed from opponents and ending in no good—by which an appeal is made—not so much to men's merits and fitness, as to the word-down influences of Loco. Focoism that we have just put down. A pretty spectacle, indeed, to throw the national offices of this great metropolis into the pot-houses of the streets, taking from them what belongs to the whole republic—such as I am sure the Whig principles of a new Administration can never tolerate! The quicker the good sense of our friends everywhere puts such business down, the better. Offices are not what we have scrambled for, but a change of principles from a change of government.