Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1841-10-07
TO THE HON. 8. II. HOBBIE,
Acii7t1 Postmaster General.

Sir: Information having been received in
form entitled to attention that the POStmas-
tiers at *****, Pennsylvania. and ***+***+,
Ohio, have SO FAR violated the obligations
which they implicitly assumed on taking
Office under my Administration. of ahstaining
from any active partsanship, or in sny way
connecting their offices with party purposes,
stantly instituted into their conduct, and that
| if the charges against them be found to be
true, they be Immediately turned out ofofiice.
and citizens appointed in their places who
will otherwise conduct themselves.
The Post Office Department., in all its OPP
erations, should be conducted for the single
purpose of accomplishing the important OBJ
iects for which it was established. 1t should
in an especial manner, so far as is practi ca.
BILE, be disconnected from party politics. 1t
was established for specified purposes Of
equal importance to every citizen. TO con-
vert it into an engine of party. to be used for
party purposes, is to make it the fruitful
source of the most alarming evils. Ramified
as it is, and extended to every neighborhood,
the purity of its administration. and necessa-
rily of its agents, should be particularly
guarded.
For Deputy Postmaster to use his frank
ing privilege "a privilege bestowed upon
him for the sole purpose of generating him
frora oppressive charges in the necessary
correspondence Of his office) in scattering
over the country pamphlets, newspapers, and
proceedings to influence elections, is to out
rage all propriety. and must not for day be
tolerated. Let this be left to the politicians.
should be happy if one or two examples
shall be found sufficient to correct AN evil
which has so extensively prevailed.
Twill take this occasion, also, 10 add for your
=. hot fbe0 Ntnnn nj fn nIS
tinuance in the Office of Postmaster of any
one editing political newspaper is in the
highest degree objectionable. 1t involves
most of the consequences above stated-in.
PRODUCES politics into the Post Office-dihin-
! ishes the revenue-and confers privileges on
one editor which all cannot enjoy. In u
word, it is my fixed purpose, as far as in me
lies, to separate the. POST Office Department
from politics, and bring about that reform
which the country has SO loudly demanded.
September 20. ls41. JOHN TYLER.
-a UTICA, Sept. 2s-Monday night.
| The anticipated excitement of the week is
all over, and there is no expectation that the
Mcleod trial will take place before Monday
of next week. great crowd of persons
were here yesterday, and as many almost are
here to-day,-some called by curiosity mere
| W. OtnCgS as WITNESSES upon tH0 OssO otUO VI
| the other, and others because they have moth
! ing to do thaa to idle away an idle week.
| Against the prisoner there seems to be
scores Of Witnesses and an Impression pre-
walls here that much more Of feeling than
justice is likely to be- elected in much Of the
testimony. The excitement with certain
class of persons may be intense. and not a
few IshoHld Judge are as anxious for convic-
ton and execution as though murder had
been commitse6as designedly aad as heinous-
" as that upon the printer Adams IN New
York the last week. However. there is no
sort of excitement which can prevent fair
trial. The counsel for the State and the pris
oner-the character Of the Judge and the
Jurors, and the highly esteemed community
in which the Court il now in session, forbid
every thing like violence or undue excite.
ment.-N. Y. Express.
The Hon. DIXON II. LEWIS arrived at Norfolk ON
Friday, in OnssteambOst.