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The tongue of calumny has been deeply ant conftantly employed jn villifyiiJg the Poftmafter Gene rt! for the difmiflion of poftmaften : With what! juftice the public will fee enabled io judge, when they have .tended tojthe fa&s herein ftated. On the truth of thia flatement the People rati rely j and the (enemies of the government and of the pofl. si'fler-generai are challenged to con. mdia it, or to ftate another cafe. N Before the difmiflal of a fingle officer bv nim, the correfoondence of one ot the principal officers had been freqiiently violated ; two ap pointment made by the oft-maf. tcr-Gencral had been fupprefied, and the papers never heard of, and the feal of the department had been twice broken at tome of the offices. There arc one thoufand and ninety-five deputy poft-ma Iters in the United Stites, each accountable to, and liable1 to be difmifTed, by the poft mafter-general ; of this iramenfe corps of officers, it was rare thine to find a tingle officer who was friendly to the government of the country. (The whole phalanx might be called federal, and many of them ranl.ed With the noil bitter oppo nents of the adminiftration. To them was entruded the whole cor- refpondence of the country, un der a fyflem, where, from its extent, it is very difficult to trace the fup- prefllonjof intelligence to any par-j ticular office. They too, hold the power of circulating the plans of their party with concerted fyflem into evpry eount in the Union, freefrojhi ex pence j; and at the fame time pofTeSed tbt power o fuppref fing the communication of the ad mimflration ltfelf, as vrell as of its friends. This power was certainty in fome in fiances called iniexercif though, to the honor bf the depart rnent aind tns officers themfelves.it i believ'ed, thofe initances were tiot freujpnt. The great majority i of thole in orncr are men ot honor and character, and difcharge the duties of their offices with diligence and In this ftate of things, although the poftmafter. generil juftlv con. fi lrrs the republicans as fully enti tled to their proportion of the ho nors and emoluments of office, yet, to furhifii an additional evidence of a difpoHtioh to conciliate the feel, ihgsof every part of the community i difpofition origin-ting not from fear, but a flricere deh re to allay the fervor of party fp if it, Which has ih truth charadenfed the p relent adminiftration, hehas difmifled from office but forty five poflmaflers, out of one thoufand ana ninety five. That he has not ycr reftored to the republicans an equality of office, hut trutb principally to the natural , progrefs of the departments to effeel an end fo ju ft arid defirabte, is to be attributed toafpirit of conciliation, ' nd to a wifh to avoid thofe evils, which might refult from the intro- duclion of too many new officers. ! O.if t .u- t ... c.. ! 1 cifmilTea for infanity. Une who had been aoDOinted m the fevetf of 198 in the room of one of the tnofl promifing charafters of the Union, who was difplaced for deccn though noble maintenance f his opinions at a time when "Jneten.twentieth of the officers vrfriends.to the adminiftration, difmiued, to do juftice to the Prfon whom he had lucceeded. One, becaufe he could not be afwerable on his bonds, being a nor under the age of eighteen years. 6 6 ; One, for flagrant abufe of the go vernment, and charging the execu ve with treafon, and every other crime. . 1 wo, tot navmg aidea the ene mies of the country during the i-c-voution, and maintaining to tbii the tame regard for Britifh fu premacy and royal j government : 5erfoas who ought to he permittee He free exercife of opinion, to hay lHeenjoyinenLof thei property ant juft proteftion of jthe laws 1 bu J bo, it is believed, ought not t. emoloved as officers of a govern Jent, jphich they contemn and ca I Mutate. ' 1: Two. for fuch nA:ffliffenoe aric retarded, and! the public incommo ded. 1 Threes for farming oiit their of fices for the halve.. and wholly ne gleaing to be flow their perfonal at- tendance upon them. I Four, for Wilful miiconducV of various kinds : 11 Five, becaufe their local fituations were not convenient eitner for the oubl'c fervice- or for theaccomiao dation of the people of the vicinity jc.ignr,pnntersiOT editors or newt papers: add, jji I Sixteen to give place" to fome of the friendj of the adrrfinidmiott to participate in the offices of govern, ment. JL j The feafbn for riot permitting the printers or editors of newfpaper to be poft aafters, are, that -they have a ftrong inducement to fup prefs the papers of feveral printers and to extend the circulation of their own: and an uncommon intereft in abufing the privilege or" franking; They enjoy fuperior advantages over their fello eraftmeo This pro duces jealoufiej, bickerings, and con ft ant irritation ; and however fairly the duties of the office may be dilcharged, thefe evils can never be avoided. Indeed, the propriety of the exclufion was to manifeft, that the late poft rnaftereneral had for years made it a rule, ribt to appoint printers ofj newfpapers. The wif dom of this meafure has not been doubted but by Callender, Who, having been refufed an office in the department, feels all the veitatioh of difappointment. How can it be faid,that preferring characters, Who are lead liable to fufpicion, who have the lead private intereft t6 oppofe to the regular difehjarge of their pub lie duties;', is fanftionlnga fufpteion and blaftng the chartftera of prin ters ? They? are undoubtedly valu able and important members of th community.; But does it follow that it is not the duty of an officer to fclr.a fuch perfons as are lead liable to dift ruft, i and who unite in their characters tho mod general confi dence? Or will it be forgotten that the rule applies indifcriminatcly to all printers'? And can it be be lieved that the pod-ma der-general wfh-s to caft a ftigma upon the re publican printers ? In the mad rage ef the oppofition to dedroy the fair farri'f of this officer, they haye publifhed thst this rule was applied to remove federal printers, but for gotten when an opportunity pre fen ted f appointing a republican editor; As an evidence of this pretended duplicity of conduct they point out the inftances of Mr.Blake, the editor of the Agis, and of Tho mas Perrin Smithy Efcj. of Mary land whoj they fay, is alfo an edi tor But hennas in every other in dance, their charges are malicious and unfounded Mn Blake never was appointed. Mr. Smith was ap pointed by the tate, not by the pre lent pof mailer-general. whe ther he be the editor of a paper or not is unknown. In truth, the re moval of printers or editors has been limited to cafes where there were rival prettes in the fame town, or where the jealoufies before men tioned, hid produced ferious difia ti&fa&onT There are a number of federal printers, and one , republi can printer ftill in office. Several j cafes which have arreded the public attention, and which have called forth the utmoft vio lencc of attack andbitlernels of in vittive again ft the poftroa der-general, requite a more particular invef tigation. ! i , ;,..f. i The firft is the cafe of William Hobby of Augufta, Georgia, who was difmiffed under a perfuafton that he wis the editor of a-newfpa- Thii h has ieen proL-er to deny. However the fact may be. ' I I i. in I 1... mVkm w.ftL t was 10 lunaeritooa uy madet-general; tnd after the pub lication of Mr. Hobby's leer4 Go vernor lackfbfi and Mr. Milledge offered To certify, that the Augufta Herald wasj univerfally called Hob- that he was the reel and by S paper, Cole editor, arid that they had nCver heard it de A: 'till that letter was uDiimcu. f?,irr?5tA'"i:i. ,u.s m - ukW connection With thai ,aper, wasklve H IKmiftal forfiipU? nduft wcreade again ft -hm by Several of thi Imoft?relpecUb!e cut . .ir .kit! ditel among wbom, is bly,- whole letter on this .fubjeft, Was lead on the fioor of cemgrefis. The pti ft ma ft e r- ge ff era I declined fche aecrptance of av certificate from Gov. jackfoh and Mr. Miliedge, on the principle, fhat it WoUld be improper for an oftcer at the head of any department in ne govern ment to enter with any peffon in to a nawfpaper conteft on the fub ject of his official conduct. To Mr. John Tryon, of I.rba hon, in the date of ew-Voric a fucceflor was appointed, becaufe the fuuation of the former was in codvenient. Mr. Tryon lives on the pod road from Berk fh ire to Al bany, near the Maflaehufetts -line s and1 no other rincipal road leading from any other place unites with this poft road near Mr. Tryon's. Mr.Jonesj his fuccefor,!ivrs in the centre of population and of the toWn, by the meeting houfe on the fame poft road The new turnpike ffom Hartford and the roads, lead ing to towns which depend on the Mew Lebanon officefor intelligence, unite with the road fir ft mentioned at or near the houfe of Mr. Jones. The reldence of Mr. Tryon was nearer the fp rings ; but the vifitofs of thofe waters, in their daily rides pa fs Mr. Jones's door. A number of the inhabitants of the town pe titioned that the office might be kept near the meeting houle. Mr. Tryon j who was confidsred by the poflma fter-genera! as a gentleman well entitled to the confidence of the department, discovered that the petition Was foon to be forwarded, Wrote to the poftmafter-general on the uibject, and fuggefted the pro priety of eftahlifhing two offices iq the fame town, one at the meeting houfe, and one at the fpfingsi The latter would turn off the mail, which is conveyed in a coachee; from the, poft road for a con fide ra blediftance, and make;ineceffary to p aft and re-pafs one of the ntoft difficult hills or mountains in that part of the country. On adopting thisplah, he fugrfef 'ed this readinefs to refign his office, arndrequefted the podmafter gene ral to delay his decifiort on the pe r ition. The decifion was according ly delayed. But it was ultimately determined that the centre of the town, where fo many roads united, and where it would foon be neceffa ry to open the Hartfordm.nl, was the proper place for the office ; and that it was not proper to edablifh another within two miles and an half to accommodate, for a few months in the year, thofe perfons who vifited the fprings, elpecially as the road Was very convenient, and the vifitors generally patted Mr. lones's every day. It is alfo worthy of beihg remarked, that Mr. Tryon wrote a fecond letter to the poft mafter-generaTon the fubject, contained in therfirft, offering to refign his office, aid recommending Mr. Ter.s Bofs for his fucceflor. The motives of Mr. Tryon, will be juftly eftimated by thofe who know that Mr. Ter. Bofs was his tenant. the third is the cafe of Auguftm Davis, printer of a newfpaper. This man, tho he returned thanks to the poftmafter-generat for his lib-; era! and gentlemanlike conduct, and affured him that, whatever decifion was made, he was futly convinced would be dictated by what was thought neceffary to promote the public goo4 has publifhed a long flatement of a correfpondence be tween himfeH and the poftmafter gcneral, villifying and calumniat-: fng the Cha racier of that officer. That Mr. Davis was iatisfied with the conduct of Mr. Granger he can not deny, for declarations importing his approbation were made by him at Alexandria and the Bowling gteen. The ineonfifteney of men's conduct who -are governed by a dere to subferVe the intereft of , a party, ii ftrpngly exemplified in Mr. Davis, ' Hev propoied to e vaete the rulerf!iiflg to printer, end editors of ' new I papers, by di viding "the buUnefs between himfelf J and his son, ode wasto take the pott-office, : and) the othej the print tigofficcf both' being "tinder the fame roof 3rTnis was.1 cbnfidered inadmiffiblc;4rand ,:e icfa'dingtd deitrov tne pen en t. or inq rcgutMf t The condructioWh3c -'W ufrl w.'V7TO V'jr the head of the Department in his Cafe only, three of the perfonal and political friends of Mr granger have fblicited the fameTnd haVe ttiet with dtfappointmenti: , Thefourth cafe worthy of notice, ahd which hai been, the fubject 6f public comment, is that bf Behjamm Lowndei-of Blad(snburg; A the fituatioh of Hist office was fome dif- t-nce from the poft road; and his houfe cuite reifeottj the poftmuer getieral forwarded an appointment to a gentleman of f ef pectajbil ity w hoTe fituatibn was convenient for the' 6U fieei This was done for the Ur pofe of expediting and rerirlenrig Te. cure the carriage of the maih : rdr in going eadward it leaves Waffling ton at oneo'clook in the morning and arrives at Bladen fb'urg long be. fore day light. As Mr. Lowndes's office was ai a diftance fromj the road, fome time muft 1 eceCTarilf have been ; pent in carrying the way Hag to the office. , This would have been inconvenient to the paflerigers, and, when none were in the coach, would, in the able nee of the carrier, have hazarded the main t&aii to a robbery. About the fame time,- a new road Was opened into B laden f burg which pafted by the old office; The gentleman appointed; propofed to take the office if any inconvc. nience would refult from his decline tng it. The po ft ma ftei. general hav ing receivd information of the new road, requefted him to inform Mr. Lowndes that he haji no objection to his continuing in office j fince by the opening of the new' road, his office was convenient fer the public fervice. MriLowndei declined fcrv ing any longer, and a fucceflor was appointed. 1 He never was difmiflcd, but refigned, no .objection was, ever rriide agamft him jtjf ' 1 Col. Eira Taylor of Orcfden Was difmiflcd on the Petition or the m- l habitants of New;Milford, a neigh bouring town, arid of a number of the inhabitants of Drefdcn, becaufe he lived at one corner of the The lite 'poftmafter-general latter. eftab- 1 ifhed an office at iMew Milfo: di and one at Drefden ; a id miftakitig the local fituation of Col. Taylor, ap. pointed him. Thf mail carrier was bound to carry thf mail thro both towns: but on experiment Stlwas proved that the ridltr could no ivifit both offices. TheofHcet Mlford was in conlequenc wholly neglect ed. It was alfo rlprefented lit the petition that Col.fTaylor had! occn conlulted, and did not wifti io1 rej tain the office. It was not kncjwn to which of the political parties he belonged he Was iconfidered a re putable and diftingtiifhed citizen in that part of the country , but was dilmifled, and a fuctelfor appointed to extend the benefit 'of the public mails to the inhabitants of two towns, inftead of lifniting thofl: be nefits to a lmall porfion of the c itL zens of one. , - ' h The fix th cafe to Which the jjub lic attention has becin invited thro the medium of jthe new f pa perk,; is that of Mr. Frederic AVolcott!,? of Litchfield, in the ftte of Connec ticut. His friends wrote privately for his appointment i about the i jjth of October he was appointed. ! At the time his appointment was for warded, Col. Tallmagc was in 'of fice. He was not removed, norfdid he refign ih fufrlcieht tirrie to enable the poftmafter-genefal to fill nthe vacancy. For the latter retired from office on the la ft off, October, arid Col. Tall mage's ietteaf ' refign a tilcjn of the 26th of the fame monthih Vhich he recommended Mr, Shel don as his lucceflori jcould not, 'by tHecourle of the maiS, reach trV neral poft-oce tilt the third! oT November follow tngM r. Wtii cott,'s appointmentKcclLild not there f0rcbeicg.l.; Thi not intcnjctl as 3lly jrefiection Oa th late poftmitf-ter-goneral, who, uncfoubtedlyie5: peaed Ir. Tallmage'4 -.refigntCl and did hot know thaiMrivWolCotti had been ! for years the calumniator; of Mr. Granger. vNcr, cah'we'fee It'eve, that any one I Would ;tupppUi that the latter would iiazafd his rW Dutat4on, by lciving an office in th nandt of a1 manvwho lhad, without provocation and without caqfe,' ati lemptkif W defamer arid deftibyt fcharaaarl? dZJ I- Do theleaasdeclarertKe 'berlecui vigilant bneer; ib hanrove nd reri der more uieful the department erix tne tc- fieiro- appointtneni 61 his perfdnai inetnyi be perfecutiori,' he if i percutbr But aWfier attempt hai betf tdiiih t6 deftrojr .ffifi confidence jof ihb pjbiic in th pofHafter generaf Thibai been done in a manner nQt ftccntiole 'Mm precife iniwtr. Be I caufe there nai been ho direct chafge. But . dark lnfinUitibni have bceri puhliihed io hVJ Worldv cvfden ty deffgned io impfefi upon the mind a belief; imi femotat wert fflado With a view to check a free i cor ref pondence On! the pari of the Oppo fition; ind to pply an importune. the poftmafter-eenerah With a little band offort-6ve officeri, t Weiity eaftor" the riortfi river, nineteen be tween that river and ihevrotOm'ac and fix fouth of the latter, jhas un dertaken to affect this dreadful pur pofe, and hai foridly hopei to ef tape the virilante of io& officers. of Whoni the former ao'miniftrttioa a'pproved, and many of wttQth are their rritods; and yet devoted to their politics f Tofiippofe it poC- 11 Die; betrays luch ignorant of tho fyflem as would indute rpcrfbn, wno potl?lied a derent regard for his own reu.sUon. td leal Hi4 lmi in filence, I But ffentiemen ! hafrev not long been left in :lhe Uijbil enjoy ment of! thii bafe metnoct of iniu. ring the fame of a citizen j In eve- 7 inftance they Have befen fcfhcit- ed to communicate freelv anv k owledge they poflefled refoeetihir 4byfesi ; ' n -evfcryf ftinJ they nave oeen allured thatj,ttte firilji when pofnted put, fhoId he cor- rep j and tfiie fftenacrs fubjeaed to cohdign pun:(hrnent4 j ; But they haye remained "ft tent44-rIn tho management of fuch a eparttnent9 errors will be cpmmittrd 1 i letter will be occa(iohall)f ,mifikid and loftw Newfpape rs mud unavoidably meet With mote accidents, fotf1 not with flahding the, lawj they Vrejated up wet ind: with carelefsoefs, and ill in nfeuence be I frequently" worn to pieces in the pags. But not man Iwili prefume. tb fiyrthat intelligence is tiot ;confeyed witli as :buch regularity ;ancf faretv.' as 'sit?' any other peri of he goyeriimentV f It isleeriainlvf - government. it is certain conveyed with more freducy nd wun viitry greater ditpatch.'t:ptr : This department or. gpyernment '1 has been repeatedly charged with a; wanton abufe nf itsjpowl.andfii unrelenting perfecuVion of .the op ponents of adrhiniftwticin j ViU the fads Jftated juftjffy jthe impu tation ? Will the removlar of tx-i teen poftmafterSj out of nhe' thou -" fahd and lninety.five glve louring to the) Cilumn VVjU thofe who! oppugn thelrieres pf her nrcietit ''ttoverrilhefttjfl'.t I ... . i J .- : "1 - iing r.o nave tne conduct ; of the F their Tor Mbvthe Uttr --. .i fif a; i'tv 1 - : . vr . - . "... i - Mi. ?.- -is .tCTV;.VT--?-. f-. W, opcrauori Qt Uw gornmen us commencement and by fclecon ofifriendMplit whlcti were crcatediirt! greftWsrijeclffi Duri thetexiftiSi;e eTi they opCnld 1 cu no man oUhtft oraciariwatipnwhnpb 1 were roppoleato of thiir paJtyV-fJw inatgprloris,jwhcriir piiuuipics would rel ana retain in office incy come ,1 pi the lame cciimft3 lent admintftratior perfuaded wbe the ibis dbctrine. that 1;-. t:tei-J 'pufiueineir jowrj od che'altar 3f tf every man wo; party. L Cttt thi, pointed. And i hceadilappb vo". noL. peer their owiipV fuw. determ therbceed truuea 10 nts cnarger it moval of the iimDrooef btti tytanhy; he tsl a tyrant j it t national eitabhlhment to party par poies,and to the corruption pf pub lie opinion; Will n be believed; that ceding adni iniftiai ion, teftcd by the farndpttncjlple ? TliSifloecaufe there was No neceffilSeiM 2 ; 1 f - ' .1 Attention, that the mails. wei LiiJ? 1
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