Note 104 — LETTER XXV.

If I were not certain that my friend wrote this passage in the year 1827, I should take it to be a reminiscence of President Jackson’s first speech. The President proposes that all the public officers of the United States (with very few exceptions) be changed every fifth year. “Eheu jam satis!” What would our Regiérungs Räthe (Government counsellors) say to such a scheme? Entire general commissions broken up, in the fullest sense of the word, at a blow! For who knows whether, at the end of five years, they would be thought worth the money they cost, and renewed at all?—Editor.