Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-07-23
PATTONsBURG posi- OFFICE.

PATTONSBURG POST OFFICE.
We must be excused for declining to copy an
article which appeared, as a communication, in the
last 3" Democrat relative to the appointment of
Mr. Crews as Postmaster al Pattonshurg. and To
the refusal of the Postmaster General to remove
the post office from pattonsburg to Buchanan in
both of which that officer acted in direct OPP
position 10 the clearly ascerained wishes of those
most interested. We decline copying it,-l>t,
because we are not in the hahit of IRAN iering to
oar columns, from another paper, replies,o arli-
cles which have appeared in this, when, in our opi
uion, there no " sufficient reasons" why those
replies were not sent to US in the first place
rule from which we might, however, dcH iatc, il the
ORGAN selected for the reply should first publish
the article which elected it and 2dly, because,
no fact stated III the communications which appear
ed in the NTginian, or in the editorial remark,
which accompanied that communication, is or can
be denied by the writer in the " Democrat; y and
they being thus admitted, our readers as we'll
able to draw the proper differences from then, with
out the aid of the g Democrat writer, as with it
indeed, rather better, seeing that he himself gross
" misconccves the nature OF the complaint made.
and is ludicrou>ly ignorant of at least one impor-
tant fact connected with il. We shall demon
sratc these charges, and then have nothing far
ther to do with the subject, unless circumstances
should render ii necessary.
The writer in the Democrat seems 10 snp-
pose that we personally object to Mr.. Crews APP
Pat j., ,nl, mot tl,a fact lint
expressly contrary to the fact We not only dis
claimed any such feeling, i'll our former article,
but we intimacd explicitly that personality VIC
were crati(cd that Mr.. Crews had received the APP
pointmen Oar ground Of censurc Of the Post
master General, was, not that he had selected Mr..
Crews, hut that he Ind di,reglrded the will OF the
people, in making that sclcction--a circumstance
in itself not remarkable ENOUGH to have excited
comment, had it not been done at the very mo-
mcnt that the Postmaster General WAS cn~caNnr-
inc to create an impression, by publication IN
paper on the sea-5oard, that, in the selection of
postmascrs, he intended to consult the wishes of
the people five praised the Postmaster Gene
raj for acting upon this just principle, was II not
right aud proper that we should ccnsurc him, when
upon the first occasion that presented itself, he re-
fused to conform to that principle? Our remarks
were founded ON his own voluntary deviation from
lust rule, which he had voluntarily laid down for
his government, in filling the vacancy in the Old
Point Comfort post ollicc-and yet the crndlc
and SAGE commentator of the " democrat" SAYS,
they were based on "a E" false hypothesis 70 Why,
sir YOU Yourself have admitted the truth of that
hypothesis throughout your luminous essay, and
cnicayored to defend the act itsc--with what sue
cess, we leave himself to judge, not being disfo-
sed to interrupt the self-complacency with which
he doubtless regards his ,bors
With regard 20 the removal Of the post office
from patonsburg to Buchanan, the writer in the
" Democrat" asks Us, if we are not aware " that
all post Offices are established and located by act
of Congress, and cannot be altered or changed,
except by the same authority ?" And again-ii
we do not know that as the law now stands, the
post Office in question is at Patonsburg, and not
at Buchanan p To which we reply that 50 far
from knowing any such thing, we know exactly
the reverse We do not knotr where the writer
in the "Dcmocrat' procured his information on
the subject, but this do know. that, III attempt
inc to expose our ignorance, he has only made HIM
self ridiculous Post offices are not established and
located BY act of Congress but established,
discontinued, and changed by the Postmaster &c
neral at his discretion power contded TO HIM,
not that he might g reward his friends and punish
his enemies" but that he might consult the wants
and convenience of the community, whenever he
might be called upon to exercise il. No one, ac-
ogainted with the relative situations OF Pattohs-
barg and Buchanan, will deny that the post Office
should be removed the most thoroug ll-2oing par
tizan of the administration must at once the
proprictv OF the measure. And, indeed, even the
writer in the " Democrat virtually admits it, hy
endcavoring 10 defend Amos Kendall for Ietu. mo
to comply with the wishes Of the people in that
particular, on the plea that the light 10 change the
location of post Offices is not vested in that officer
but in Congress The propricty Of the removal
ofthc post Office being then admitted it having
been shown that its removal was called for by al
most the unanimous voice oithosc interested in the
measure and the reht of the Postmaster General
to act in the premises being underlined it follows
that the determination to continue it at Pattons-
burg, IS utterly indeiensibe, to whatever motive it
may be attributable.
The President at the Rip Rips.