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'So much for show - Now for effect: how stands the matter in effect? In effect, were the question put to me I should say the nominations in question are in each instance made by some one of these functionaries, nobody out of Doors knows who, without being incommoded with any such troublesome check as would be applied by his Colleagues in trust - President included - or any one of them. Check, in a word, none whatever? - check, or, as in the case of this and all other official situations I find it more adequate to the purpose to say, security for appropriate aptitude, none - appropriate aptitude, including intellectual and active as well as moral aptitude: responsibility none: exposure to the eventual censure of no tribunal whatsoever; neither to that of any legal tribunal nor to that of the public opinion tribunal. So much for generals.

Now for particulars. - States 24; Senators sent to Congress from each, 2: total, 48; majority, 25; add to these, President, one; together you have 26. In the power of each of these 26 it is by agreement with the rest to appoint in the quality of acting patron a protegé of his own choice. As for interest, benefit, use, his own is all he has any need to think about: the public’s he has no need to trouble himself with. Here then you see (to borrow a word from the astronomers) - here you see a cycle of 26, which repeats itself as many times as, in the whole establishment of this central government, there are official situations thus filled. Number, suppose, 2,600: here then instead of unbeneficial and time-consuming and contestation, amicable or hostile, on the question of aptitude, absolute and comparative, on the part of Candidates in any number for each such office, what in effect has place is a of any patronage composed of a hundred of those same official actions.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	023	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 f18 / e3 f19
Penner		Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	8027
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