Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1845-07-03
qfITRsD.aY. JtLY 3, 1915.
"oFF WIN THEIR HEADS !"

the following list. as otirally Announced BY the organ
Inf The STATE ENecuanefs:
William II Waller. Register of The Land Office at
Milwaukee Wisconsin, vice falaelete Potter.
Na,han Bardin. Snrveyof and iosfsriuf 81 tie ReVe
nne Al BRISTOL Riude l.land. vice Eltanab Fnnch.
IneIgs ! Won surveyor General ri Ohm. Indiana aud
Michigan, from 30ih June. 1915. wee William john
s. II. resigned.
Icnry llicks Collector Of the Customs for tie District
of Delaware vice Arnold Naodan.
Robert H. Merchant surveyor and Inspector Of The
Revenue at Dunfes, Virginia, vice George H. Go'k.
rrll.
John b. Guthrie, Surveyor aud Inspector II the Re
venue al fisbure, peunsy wanna. vice William H.
Mauy
" William n Friend. Postmaster Petersburg. Va
in The place ui John Minge.
Joseph NJ. Doiy, Postmaster at Ogdensburg New
York when the commission o the pr sent incumbent 81"
expire.
Whlacre O'Nea. Postmaster at Sleuhenville, Ohio,
from the 2qlh instant. when the commission ii the Pre-
sent insnnbent viii expire.
BeuBmln +. RaWls. Postmaster Al Columbia, south
Carolina from the s9th instant. when tho commission
Of the present neunbut, A II. Gladden.. will expire
W llham C. Smith. Postmaster, al Macon, Georgia,
in The place OF knreand Tyner.
George Crawford, Postmaster al Cincinnati Ohlo III
the place Of VIM. II. H. Taylor.
]. Is y. Hale, Posiuasle at Wheeling, Va, IN The
place Ut David Agnew.
Chambers Meklbnin Postmaster at Pltlsturg, Pern-
sylsania in the place ct X. NJ 4 ode.
In addition TO tie foregoing. VI, fically announ
c,d thai Joseph b. Hush Las been appointed Postm's
Ter Dsburg. Pa in Il place oi George l.. Sheare.
removed And ihe Na,it,al Ineliieencer says: "Ouf
rcedes in The Amy Who have been accustomed 10 set.
lie lhe accounts in the Second Auditors ofice during
the last forty Yeas. III be surprised To learn that the
respected and faithful Clerk Of that Bureau James Ea-
hin. Esq has been dismissed from flee
fTIp Natnpal sllircnc.r f,v dave aoo
to The great difference between the Northern ard South,
Ioeooeos in their views to The policy of proserp-
lion tor opinion sake lis remarks would perhaps have
been moe just it had referred the Calhoun aud Ian
Bncn divisions Of the Iocoioro party latter whe,
Tier in the South OF ia Tie North, generally going for
the New York doctrine HAT Ito the vciors belong the
spoIs,o bile the former lave AZ generally repudaled
essentially d,spole in lis character and demorali-
aug in lis Influences AS long ago 1889 the eloquent
and lamened Legate, of South Carolina. said Thee
/ s not anonE the NEST odious maNims OF Machay esi
sentence replete with cold>blooded and accursed
wlekcdaess-more STEPPED ~ shameless and sinful prof
! gacy mon utterly inconsistent nth the dignity 90
yerun ent the Obligations of the social state than this
TO the vctors belong The spols In no collection uf the
data Of syslfna2cd nalsniiy-.in record Of the ra
wings of those bold bad men, who have regularly tram
lfu th lHtH tloN -tl(lAHs. rs II lhfY were frutS
tined dupes and saves--is there sentence more inta
nous a" This, Which represents he po,cers and dgn
lies and trusts ola great nation as pt,der and booty
10 be wun as by camp otbandils OF prates-
Let once be adopted and carried in the nation and
who can oretell the consequences 2"
We are sometimes grav,ly told, however, by the
friends of the Administrator. that Mr. Granger remJ.
we'd vast num1er Of Pusmaslers in the brief period Of
/ bIe friin 4, Al, "a.
II he did aud was right in so doing why did the defend
ers oi the Wholesale prescription Under the present ad
mlnistralrn denounce him as blood thirsty tvrant io
! SO doing II he was wrong, ON the other hand why
do 'hey now initiate his p,rncious example How
can they in the same breath condemn Mr. Granger and
applaud Mr. Polk Let us however, look al this ri
dlculous d.tenco in another point Of view Orthe "7O1
posim0sers' said to have been removed by Mr.. Gran.
ger, very few Of them held ,fices in mich the pecnn
airy omoomenl was worthy OF Reconsideration With bu
iew exceptions. they ltte country offices which
are rather burIhen than OF profit to the incnm
bonis who are generally only induced to hold them
ior the convenience OF their respective nenhbor,
hoods In removing such men, Therefore, the idea
OF rewardlte friends OF Of furnishing enemies. BY
heslewlng upon the Grmer the ''sposn of which
the latter were deprived could moi generally hav.
entered into his brain. Nor has it ever been nro
we'd that in single CAGE individual was displaced
merely fer ''oplnon sake" 1t will be rem,mb,rtd tl,
during the campaign of $40 IL was alleged that mn
mefous breaches OF the ranking privilege were commit,
ted by Plsimasers in various sections of the Union tn
eeeloneens purposes, in favor TT the then President
VINO was candidate for election; aud If Mr. Gran
ger had thought II proper to do So we doubt moi he
could have shown, that in his apparently proscripliye
course lac Was in truth vndcating that old Republican
doeirne long since gone into dlsuse in the practice Of
Tho sc Who falsely claim be the exclusive ch,mninns
o the Republican faith that ''lhe pa ouaoe Of the poy
eminent should not he brought into conh ct with the
freedom of elections" Can Mr. POLK excuse his rro-
scnrtIve course by such plea Is ii even pretended
that Bernard Peyton OF Richmond, or Dr. A,noe of p,
teTsbnIg, or MI Taylor of Cincinnati have violated that
!elesonlan canon. that they have in any mar ocular
Jailed to discharge with fidelity and honesty the duties
OF their respective ,tlccs2 Ii is not. Their nteortv
as men and their fidelity officers are unnpe1cb,d and
peachabe We learn indeed from the las, Peters
oarg inteIlgenrer that both Wings & Democrats in Pc,
'ISonrg united IN protest against the removal of Dir.
Hlnge from the posollice in that towr: but in yain
w hat sort Of Republican is he nhn, in the anpoint.
ment OF his subordnates neither regars capaei,, and
hdry nor public opinion, in their selrction-but u IN
peNetis the power with which he is clothed far the
Phnlc good into an instrument for the Qualification of his
personal or political Vengeance Such man he bis
pre'enslons what they may. is lyrant. lie p,es as
as Tar as the law allows hun now in the exhibition of his
'"''c'Se feelings. II that law permitted him to in,