MR. CARLETON'S POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1306, 22 January 1868, Page 4

MR. CARLETON'S POLITICS.

\ To the Editor of the Herald. '. Sm,—Either Mr. Carloton is greatly in error—selfconfessed—or he is guilty, not of political experimenting, but political ncheming. There are some people who adopt the Metternich aphorism, that all is fair in " love, politics, or war." Such mottoes sound very well, but their effect is most degrading, and no statesman of our time would suffer it to he thought that he countenanced any dishonesty in his dealings with the public, any more than he would in his dealings with his private friends. It is, I think, the redeeming feature of the present day that many of these shallow hut smart sayings are held to be unworthy, and that the very highest feeling of honor, which is adopted by first-class people in every profession, can only co-exist with absolute good faith. But we see Mr. Oarleton putting one set of resolutions on the Council paper one day, leaving them there until they are struck off, (hen framing another set and putting them on the paper, yet declining to discuss them when called upon. The only logical conclusion that one can come to is that Mr. Oarleton either does not know what he is about, or that he is about some business which concealment, trickery or intrigue can alone or together accomplish.—l am, 4c. Jacqt/abd. Bay of Islands, January 12.