Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-04-19

FOR TIE E.vQVfRER.
MEssRs. EDIroRs: You will oblige friend by pub.
fishing the Article the enclosed slip OF paper, taken
from the "Jeiersonan and Virginia Times Of the Sd Of
April headed "The Post ofce also the article herein
written as an answer on my part, TO the same.
Yours, Respectfully.
ANDREW L. wHITMoRE
"THE POST OFFICE
tia In power Federal Government by judieious o
Enlistment OF four FIVE Country Post Offices twenty
ohadns closed aooSs IS warrant to any
''V appeal Psopsewo will state facts which we mean
use Of pIOS as We know full well Tho utter
ban ofGoysrnmen,. ofths we feel assured
to have IoSeised single complaint, 0@ subscriber to this Pa
quarter During weeks Proclamation bu, two of our
G1psI' reached rhaSePss Ia Washington CITY The
nessee, and then In Alabama, four
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Powha,an eek Ser pGGcaOn soah enreope torn
% Snd ssSeed rah dena@aes Editors and satsee"
pirate drasr Of the Post aste Be distributed he shall
did hot siS Ss oe ss sgsS s to y S Of
ceasns popularity and influence of this Journal
S's" for @ Van H% Sld" So put in
S n for 'hei, Sread' sp0 % co 1ee the four
the @ to BE- rS. the Post oi''
in ibis City W kS Se We b"ow the S 'S attention rS U "
Ss. %o d twelve months the Office here filled
packages of our Paper Fortnight after publications. aud then
made "p and se% from tbs S' s SSS ana sS" ha
destination, il is because OF the
mad dIn
In the of the orders to stop
seven eight paPehreo OF these
%snd;;sS :s,
may consider themselves, they DC Allegiance
Ss %s .Tm not. "eps s @ than r
To the Editors Of the Jefersondn and Vwginia Times
GENTLEMEN; see in your paper of the 3d of the
present month, an article which feel my duty
pond to- The article to which allude is headed The
Post Office" Although look on II an appeal TO the
people for patronage on the ground that your press
put under the ban OF government" the charges Of
such character against postmasters generally that
have resolved declare the people you have adj
dressed that nothing specified by you has my
Office Ii you had named the particular offices in certain
counties from which complaints went TO you, there would
not have been any necessity for my appearing before the
public to free myself from the odi attempted to be cast
upon me and Others officers of the General Govern
ment You ought to recollect, that there be
at all for the next four years. they be conducted by
men holding commissions under the administration that is
sued the internal Proclamation unless the States null
NY the present appointing power they secede from
the Union. Citizens, then, and some of them good
as other citizens take these Offices and care no more for
General Jackson than they do for Mr. CLAW nor for Mr.
Van Buron, than Mr.. Calhoun
think you are mistaken when you say, allegiance
bought by money sometimes than comes to-
Tor, whilst money may sometimes discldn
allegiance he will have leave the country to get clear
oil allegiance under any organized government In that
way not in the other, may cos him than comes
to- believe owe allegiance to the government under
which hold my commission, and that should endeavour
to render il reputable possible by complying with
the laws for regulating the department. whether money
was received not And canddy confess that situated
as am, although boast OF being citizen of Virginia
am too much OF American citizen take care of
and to distribute all newspapers that to my office
and would charge postage too Ordinance of the peo
pe or an act of the Legislature of Virginia the
ny Notwithstanding. have influence with the admi-
nlstraton; but if you will inform where the Office
in which the postmaster carefully deposits your paper
in his private drGtoer be distributed or not as he shall
think proper" will report him to the head of the de-
parmen and will that if he is convicted of the
charge, he will be removed from office. would do it,
NEIGh IOL
prevent reproach being thrown the society which
he is member. You ought not, them because think
owe allegiance 10 government under which hold Of
nee 10 let charge stand over it does at this time
No-to make myself acceptable TO General Jackson, |
must comply strictly with the laws for the regulation of
ahe PosIollce neparnHnt nf tho coVornment know
and 20" KNOW that am not obnoxious the charge you
have brought against POstmdSters for only one paper
bearing the of Jefersonan comes to NV Office
and the subscriber has never had cause of COMPLAINT for
the miscarriage OF that But the public does not know it,
and suspicion may be all the in the coun
y under the declaration, that in Prince George whole
packages mscarry have heard OF complaint at Tenn
pleton, at City Point where the officers were in IA
YOUR oil the election OF General Jackson There
oer olces In the county only, and fortunately, for
ADMINISTRATOR your assertion be true that whole pack
ages have miscarred they due one or the other
oil them in both of which, the post masters are and euer
hdue Oeen opposed to the present administration and
tlist is not all; believe they nuiiGers. Because
they are nuler though, do wish them from
olce-Ihey gentlemen Of hight responsibility and at
tend well the business they undertake. whether pub
lie or private nature They all that they receive
and "~boe packages mscarTy, the fault is not theirs
IL Is sui higher upet us trace the matter the be GIN
hng AS before stated, complaint has gone from pos,
oces I'm this county, that under the Of
Administration men, between the other two offices and Pc
tersburg, there is post office That (Petersburg) is
distributing office, and has in it OF the most active
industrious and attentive Post masters, saw. He
perhaps with all his attention TO business may some
hmes overlook packages, send them TO wrong off
ces In the hurry occasoned by the necessity of max
ing up great number of mails within a given time;
out he IS too honest TO destroy packages or
10 put them in his private drawer TO be used as
ne thinks proper. But is he one whose aIIegiance
mas been bought by money! | believe not. He has
acted very pTudenty in not being a parizdn but has
NOT Oeeh what Is called supporter of the Jackson am
nisrahon Between Petersburg and Richmond the
Prince George mails enter Post Office and think
more likely the nalVersation is in Richmond If ann
EheTe' thanin any other place. And why2 Because the
Host-maSers at other places their Offices and the
fos master Tor Richmond lives 200 miles from his Office
lie no doubt wishes every thing properly done, and do
not charge The gentlemen Who in the office with fail
ing 10 DO heIr duty but charge has been made by Won
against Post masters, and he shall not 90 clear because
MS "ohce is hed by persons with whom you are person
ally acquainted" You ought to recollect that vour being
acquainted with them does make them better men
than lhey would be IL you did know them; and thai
me diiheuty OF finding out what is done within closed
a0OIS IS warrant to any Gnged Post master" The
richmond Postmaster was not formerly supporter Of
the administration and have not heard of any change Of
opinion since "the internal Proclamation was issued If
however he has over and is now the friend of Jack
son and Van Buren, he is obnoxious 10 the charge
you nave made against than any of the Postssters
in this county.
do not believe that any Of the Post masters of any of
the Post-ofhces to which have alluded have committed
Tue crime you wish TO impress the public with 10 raise
the hocI Of persecution. "These things are enougb IN
he nj anu a