Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-10-16

ODSCffdoioiis III HS QGyIGQ, dltliOdSA III
writer appears to think tsere is some excuse
for Gen. De Buys LIST, because he is but {
chess-boy in the handssof the Postmaster
General ; ID, because hs is a Louisianlan
and, 3D., because he has held different Offices
heretofore.
These are powerful Spolog es, to-be-sure
In the first, there may beg it is true, some co.
gency, if the Postmaster t New-Orleans be
willing to admit that he > a mere a%utoinaton
and has NJ discretionary power to decline acts
which he knows to be unjust and absurd
that he is compelled to rob and plumber the
PEOPLE because his master, the Postmaster
General, tells him to do So.
The2 and 3D., we feaE, would be found TIC
serve but lamely the cau;e in which they are
employed, if critically examined. We see
no reason, that a LouisSsalnian should be ex.
cused for wil.ul errors, inore than a New.
Yorker, or any uther pan; and an indi.
vidual who has been lionored with office
by the people, on various occasions, shoule
know his duty better tlasl to undertake the
enforcement of a law Which circumstance
have rendered at once iaapplicable and op.
p@ressive.
We maintain that thei order alluded to is
INTENDED only for the projection Of a regularly
administered post that fhe post is no longer
administered with rcgularity between New
Orleans and Bayou sarb and consequently,
shat the order is not applicable to the route
and that in applying it AZ this time, the Post
master at New-CEeans las committed an act
Of gross injustice TO the public.
p. S.-Since writing sthe above, we have
seen i'll the Picayune, anarticle which ! it may
not be amlss to notice soIfar as to correct one
or two bold errors into which a want of per
ccption, or a wilful disposition to peryert or
misrspresent, has led tha author. The arti-
Gle Itself is near akin toithe one already no.
ticed, and emanates from HE same or a similar
source. In the outset, it states that we charge
the postmaster at Nsw-Orleaas with the ir-
reguiaritics Of the coast-;nail. We made no
such charge, as every ons who has read our
remarks knows. The pa!ade of the writer re-
lative to the law of 1925, is so much nom
sense, neither more nor Hess. We know the
history OF the law and OF IFS intentions, as well
at least, if not much better, than he does !;
and we know it can only pc enforced in places
where, and at times whcs,, the mail is regu-
larly carried.
So far as the writer pSetends. to controvert
the statements made TO lSs by Capt. Hart, an
anonymous scribbler can expect neither con-
sequence or credit for lis assertions. We
used the name Of Cap. siart as authority for
our statements, and it Is not probable we
should have to done so ~gfoundless!v.
But the most amusing portion of this ebul-
iition Of /" Justice" $50 tie libel is signed) is
where the author, in his efforts to screen the
post Office department oG New-Orleans from
one charge, exposes it to- another. He says,
In fact the coast-nall Is always closed and
sealed the night p~revioas to its departure"
Il is, is it! And how comes it, MIR. Justice,
that your dutiful maste; permits this to be
done {! Are not the mail boats detained until
ten O'Clock Cor half past;ten) in the morning,
expressly to receive the ;nails that arrive in
the city between daylight aud that hour! Do
not the boats remain un.il 10 o'clock, thai
your post-ofice gentry msy have time to pack
up the. city letters aud Newspapers destined
villages and towns On the coast! And
what right has the postmaster or his "sabS"
70 clc5e the mail in the slight, as you state?
Have you received orders from Washington
o lie a-bed 50 late in the morning that you
not-time to attend tb your business be-
the departure Of the boat? Are you not
by law to keep lpen the mail-bags
within one hour OF ahe sinc advertised
or the departure of tine bi5ata
The fact that we nevet receive papers or
from Naw-Orleans Of the date ca
fhich the mail leaves, Is here accounted for.
THE LOUISIANA LAW IoUESAL.-Mr. Bon
lecaze, agent for tie publishers in Baton
Rouge, has handed us TIE first and second
Nos. Of the Louisiana Law Journal, a work
published by Nessrs. e. ySs2hs,s q. Co, Station
rs Hall, New-Orleans, snd edited by Gus
SCHMIDT, counsellor at law.
After a careful reading of the numbers be-
3re lis, We feel that we eannot better express
ur own views OF this work, than by making
or three extracts frotA1etters appended. to
ne second number-one From Justice Story,
lie other from ChancelloI KENT. These let
ers were addressed to tha editor, after the ap-
earaneeE of the first number of the Journal in
lay aast. Judge Story says:
have Just rad the pleasure Of %feceiv-
the first number Of the Louisiana Law
oaT1aai, which YOU havp SO obligingly sent
e. ai laii 1t as an IMPORTANT addition to
ar lnrRilcial literature j: and coming from
nat partsot' the Union whose jurisprudence
resents the most Valuable means Of i'm
rowing the science Of the common law.
he number abounds with materials of
reat public utility; ard | hope you viii
low me tosay, that ths task of the editor.
y been performed with signal ability, .
aFning, candor and saaaeity. The work
serves IN every yieW, professional as well
@ ~ g. . 8#L
public patronage /; asllI earnestly hope
iat it may receive it Ii the full extent OF
merits, which give 4 very strong title
claim it. :
!" shall direct your agents, Messrs. Lit
, & Brown. of Bostoss, 10 consider the
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