Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-06-01
From the Baltimore Republican.
TO THE PEOPLE.

III lhE FEOf LIZ.
FELLOW. CITIZENS: You have seen nv
name recently published. among many
others, as one of those dismissed from the
Office of Inspector of the customs, in the
port of Baltimore. Some of you have
been sorry to see it, some hope none
but those who wanted my placo) have
been glad, and some Indifferent. | had
no right to expect it would be otherwise.
came not before you now, therefore, to
ask your sympathies or your assistance--
The sympathy of my friends already
have-lhat of strangers or enemies Gf !
have any) do not care for, and thank
God can help myself But came be.
fore you, my fellow citizens, TO do my
duty to my family and to you--to my fam
lily, by vindicaing my character from any
imputatiOu which dismissal from Office
may have cast upon ito you, by expo
sing the falsehood, the hypocrisy and
shutting meanness of some of those who,
by accident, hold high places in the Gov
ernment. am an obscure individual.
whose lot has been Cast in the humble
walks of life, and am we'll aware thai
there are those who will sneer at MY un
dertaking to address the public, and
prcsUming totalk about "my betlers,"-
am es Indifferent to such as they can
possibly be to me. In this land of Re-
publcanpOlitical equality, the right, the
feelings, and the character of the hum
blest of her citizens are as near apd as
dear to her as those of her most exalted
sons-and the honest, unbought, and dis
interested of his fellow citizens will hold
them as sacred, in The person Of an hum
bic inspector as in that OF Secretary Of
tho Treasury OF collector Of port. In
my sphere of life, have sustained as good
q character as either of them, perhaps
better; for with the exception Of my
dismissal from Office by them, there has
been no impulation on mine-while, in.
dependent Of their conduct (Which | AIN
about to expose) TO me, there are serious
impulations on theirs. Ye; these are the
persons, who have used their ''little brief
authority" TO turn me out of the humble
Office Of Inspector Of the Customs
and for what! ! have asked the question
4 OF the Collector, have asked it OF the
Secretary-nether would answer. They
have had the meanness to do the act, but
have not the manliness TO aVow it, They
shufled aud eIuivOcated--and one
or the oIhHr, probably both did more
-T-d!
On the day Of IFS date, receiv
ed the foNOwiHginote from Collector Will
Jams: =
CcLLEcToR's OFFICE,
a Baltimore, April p, l94l.
SIR: Your services, as an Inspector at
this port, will no, be required after the
a30th inst.
Respectfully, Nour Obedient servant,
79t8 N. r. WILLIAMS, Col.
To Mr.. THos. S. WILLIAMS.
| called upon Mr.. Williams, and made
the following Inquiries, and received the
following answers: ''ilas nv character
as a citizen been impeachedf' "Now-
Gam charged with being incompetent
10 discharge the duties Of my odice"-
"Nor' "Am charged with neglect Ofmy
duiiSsf" "No!" "Then sir. why am
discharged from Officer 81 do moi
know! only executed the orde'
! received from Washington; was com
PEELED 10 do it,1or be- discharged my
self" @
! told Mr.. Williams that I thought | hat
claims on The patronage Of the Govern
Inent, on the ground Of the services o
my Father in the Revolution and the las
war; that my Father had served years
in the war ofthe Revolution. and, ,hougl
nearly seventy years old, had turned ou
in defence Of the country during the wa
lof 1912; that the anxious lesson whc
my Father had taught his sons, was devc
tion 10 their country; and the proof ,ha
this early lesson had not been throw
away on them, was 10 be found in The fac
that all Of them. FIVE in number, were on
in support Of their country's cause durin
The last war;aihat I and one of nv broth
ers bad been members of the .BALTI
MORE VOLUNTEERS, aud marched !
Canada, where we served our tour, an
suffered much; that had been in the bal