Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-05-19
Post Office Department,
Appointment Oaice, Apr. IO. La:

Slr-Tou are charged with being exceed
ingly hostile to the President, and his meas
ures, and that you and Gurdon Chapman
were "at the wing meeting or caucus got up
an Newburg by the friends of Mr. Clay in
opposition to Democracy and the present
Administration Of the General Government :
at which time and place, his Excellency
John Tyler, the President of the u. S. was
denounced in no measured terms"
Respectfully your ob'dt serv't,
JOHN A. BRYAN, I'd Ass'tP. Nj. G.
SAMUEL M. DowNER, Esq, P. NJ,
Norwich, Conn.
Post Office Department.
Appointment Office, April 10, 1913.
Sir-You are charged with being at heart
opposed to the present administration and
its measures--with uniting secretly in the
plans and participating in the meetings, of
the enemies of the President of the United
States-and also with being interested in
the establishment of political newspaper
and your removal from office is solicited
upon these grounds.
The postmaster general instructs me TO
inform you of the above charges, in order
that you may have an opportunityt to explain.
Respectfully yours,
JOHN A. BRYAN.
RoB'T E. HoRNER, P. NJ, Princeton, N. ].
We invite attention to the official record
of the "charges" preferred by John Tyer's
Assistant Postmaster General against the
Postmasters at Norwich, Connecticut, and
Princeton, New Jersey. Here are two Off
GERS OF the General Government called to
account, not for any neglect, misconduct.
or maversation, but for being sat heart op-
posed to the present administrations sex
ceedingy hostile to the President" "uni-
ting in the plans of his enemies" and beino
present at a meeting where "His Excellen-
cy John Tyler" was spoken of sin no meas
ured terms! For these henous offences
Messrs. Downer and Horner were both sum
marlly elected from Office, and others sub
STUFFED IN their places who have doubtless |
furnished the requisite security, not that
they would faithfully discharge their res
pectlve duties, but that they would adhere
to His Excelency John Tyler" uphold his
administration against all ASSISTANTS, and
never mention his name save in terms of rev.
erence and respect. And this John TYLER
who proscribes honest and capable men on
suspicion of being cat heart" opposed to his
SpCdhlu9 ll8Hlly OF HIS !
name, is the same individual who sipnalized
his accession to the Presidential Chair by
the gratuitous and hypocritical declaration
that he would remove no man from office
who faithfully discharged his trust unless he
was engaged, as an open or secret partisan,
IN bringing the patronage of the General
Government in conflict with the purity of
elections. Now, active pariizanship is ex-
acted of each Federal office-holdcr as the
condition of his retaining his place, and
John Tyler himself leads and directs the
attempt to corrupt the elective franchise by
The toulest prostitution of Executive patron s
age! Is it surprising that the People, in |
their loathing and detestation of the imbe- !
Gle and traitor who now disgraces the Pres d
ldentIal Chair, should have lost all respect i
Tor an office once dignifed and made illus
Uions by the virtues of WashingfOa, the
talents Of Je6erson and the purity and :
patriotism of an Adams.-ABany Journal