Litchfield Enquirer

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The School Fund has for more thirty years been well managed by one Commissioner. His duties were not intricate, but they required vigilance and attention. He has seen the money well invested, and that the interest was promptly paid into the treasury. During the last session of the Legislature, the whigs in prowling about for office, thought, or professed to think, that the Commissioner required an Assistant. The Commissioner himself did not concur in the opinion. He well knew that he could manage the affairs as well now as he had done for the last twenty years, but all would not answer. The whigs wanted the office, and the people must contribute fifteen hundred dollars in salary and expenses for a useless, unnecessary supernumerary.

After a recess of several days, our neighbors of the Times have another period of anxiety about the action of the late Legislature, in the appointment of the Assistant Commissioner of the School Fund. This is no way surprising, as some grievance is wanted for a new burthen of the old song, and a place to stand upon, to make the attack upon the Whigs. Without something to ret about, some ingredient to throw into the caldron, to make it bubble, Locofocoism would be utterly destitute of resources, on which to feed its political action. So long as there is something to grumble at, and scold about, and inflame the passions of men, so long it hopes to keep the breath of life within itself. The attacks upon the appointment of the Assistant are of the usual class, and in the usual style. Locofocoism needs aliment, and it can sustain itself only by attacking every thing done by its opponents.

In answer to all the Times now says about the School Commissioner, we need only appeal to their opinions some time since.

From the Hartford Times, March 17, 1838.

"The selection of the Hon. Seth P. Beers as their candidate for Governor, is highly honorable to the Democratic party,-they had the interest of the State in view and their wishes and feelings are for the public welfare. * * * Having devoted the meridian of his life, the whole of his physical and mental faculties in the great and important services which have been so useful to the State, the period has arrived when he needs REPOSE."

From the Hartford Times, March 24, 1838.

"The election of Mr. Beers will be of eminent public service. His capacity, fitness and qualifications for the office of Chief Magistrate, all admit. In that office, he can induct a successor into the station he now occupies. It is obvious to all, that no individual could take the place of Commissioner of the School Fund, without some previous acquaintance with the immense property committed to his keeping. For any individual to undertake that duty, without previous instruction and acquaintance, WOULD BE ATTENDED WITH GREAT LOSS. Mr. Beers was inducted into the office by his predecessor, and had all the benefits of his advice and experience. He served an apprenticeship, as it were, for the place. Elected Governor, he could impart all necessary information to a new Commissioner, and make him acquainted with all the various, extensive, and complicated duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner. We should then have the benefit of Two experienced individuals, as Commissioners, so that on the happening of any contingency, the State could avail itself of the services of the other. Against such a contingency the State in its wisdom should provide."

We can in no way better answer the whining cant of their present article, than by referring to these extracts. They answer every point of complaint, fully; or, if there was need of repose for Mr. Beers, seven years since, if there is need of previous acquaintance with the matters of the Fund, before taking the entire charge of the immense property committed to his keeping, if, to assume the duties of Commissioner, without such acquaintance, would be attended with great loss, why not provide for such an emergency as might occur. If these reasons were so powerful in their effect upon the conductors of the Times, in 1838, have they any less weight, now that Mr. Beers has devoted seven more years, since passing "the meridian of his life," to the duties of the Commissionership. The evils of placing a man in that situation fresh from some other pursuit, without previous acquaintance, would be as great now, as then. And we are glad the Times then had such an accurate perception of the matter. But circumstances have changed, and all the former fine reasoning of our neighbors upon the subject, at that time, seems to have been forgotten. It may be very convenient for the leaders to forget these things, but their readers still recollect them: and the people will think it the merest selfish whining hypocrisy, in the editors to attack, with so much bitterness, a measure for which they gave such satisfactory reasons, 1838.

[Thus much from the Courant. In addition, it is proper to state, that the Times does injustice to Mr. Beers, when it says, he did not concur in the appointment of an Assistant. Mr. Beers has more than once, as we are credibly informed, expressed his belief, that an Assistant should be appointed. He is now far advanced in life, and cannot be expected to hold the office of Commissioner many years longer He knows and feels that somebody should be made fully acquainted with the condition of that vast fund under his care, before he leaves it ; and we are confident, he will not thank the Times for holding him up to the public, as an opponent of the course pursued by the Legislature at its late Session.]