The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-06-19
From tic Ohio State J0nraal
C0RRUPTIoNs Or THE POST or
FIGE.

E4CE.
The attempt made 81 Amos Kendall, ii
his correspondence with tile Clerk of the
House Of Representatives. to fasien by impli-
cation on the Wing members Of Congress s
charge Of abusing the fraaking privilege, IS
likely TO prove sore Job for the adminis-
tration. II was notorious 70 every one al
all conversdnt with the management of the
Post Office Department; and the practices
Of the Government officials, The charge was
without foundation 70 any extent, So FAR as
the opposition was concerned, 10 say.
nothing Of their restraining sense Of honor,
il was impossible 10 carry on such practices
under the eyes 81 the Post Office agents,
wllhou1 certain detection exposure: That
such exposure las not been made IS sufti-
clenf evidence to clear them Of the charge
--tor no one can doubt the partizan zeal Of
Amos, and hls deputies scattered through
the coutry, whatever may be said 70 dispar
age their official capacity OF honesty. Not
SO with the heads 81 Department, Clerks,
and Members Of Congress, Of the admins
tratiOn side 81 the House. Possessing the
disposition, there was nothing TO restrain the
abuse Of the franking privilege and il Is
known that Il has been abused @ most alar-
ming extent. not only by members of Cone
gfess, but by Postmastefs, and other public
lagenls. ms Amos must have known--lhe
IpaDllc knew Ii. leltit, and saw it, then how
coul1 he plead innocence
Inc exposition contaIned il Che following
lextracls from letter 81 tile Hon. john M.
BOTS, ! Representative il Congress from
Yuginia, lays bare scene 81 inquiry which
mast startIe every honorable minded man.
FMS letter was called out 81 an attack Oh
/ Dir. Bolts, through tie cOluns 81 tie kich-
nond Enquirer, whose editor sought to Cor
rOborate the wholesale charge 81 The Post
master General, by calling il question i par
ticular act Of that genllsinan. Alter de-
llending himself, Alr Bolts carries The war
into Africa, ii i manner thai nus awaken
we'll grounded suspicion q every quarter
against the aeents Of the Post OIfice De-
partment Thai our political letters and
lpapers do nos reach their destlnati0n, IS
tue subject 81 complaint from Ill paris ii
Of the country EKhs nus i long been So !
pected can we longer doubt Read and
reflect.
aOn the second day Sc FEBRUARY last,
lsent 10 the Post Office il the several hun-
dred copies Of nv FIRST speech % the New
jersey contested election, directed t0 the
Richmond Post Office on lie i3lh Sc the
SINE month / went Is Richmond myself,
aud had many appl cations from personal
friends, for copy Of the speech lad sent
lneagly fortnight before. REPAIRED 70 the
Post Office OF Thar city, 10 ascertain Wheth-
j er those documents had been stopped III
Washington, 81 It they had been received
lin Richmond, Why they had not been dis
{ tributed. Nobody could give ne any inioT-
]. lmation % the subjects but, on booking about
the Office; observed ma baQ nndef tie
counter He'd with scmlhinq and the mouth
IIofthe bar antied as lea W6af II contained:
{ lone Of the clerks said BE didn know look
q ed il #. and found my frank oil every paper
s Il view; then asked how long that bag had
! been in the Office, 81 no one could tell;
Ton emptYing is contents twas found .
contain nothing else but by documents by
(which / would appeal hat hey Ind been
3 sepeEated from every Thing else whether il
lichmond d Washington know not.
Does any man ia iis sober senses BE,
iieve that 6 those papers bad been ranked
by political friend 0f the admin lion.
they would have been nncef enormously laid
lunder The countef e BE does lie Ia.
mentally ignorant At tha present state Il
ihing
Believed that there be no design
80 tie part Of The young .lemen III lhe
oEEcs who aIc ell young men, taking little
oF 10 paEt II politics, - arrest dsifib0.
ton 81 documents ran ed 81 me, com.
lplained IS The Post master coi Cooth
him who ssid he did mt know hos lon
they he'd been there. bill & vas 50 Ibl6 ile
might haze been del inod 81 ihs lille 81 lbs
E0ad
It's not possible eI HE g ~ how lont
hey bad been d lhat once only speal