The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-05
MIR. Henry Warren, Second Assistant Psstm


MIR. FltI Henry Warren, Second Assistant Psstma
General.
| 81 appeal unto Cesar"
We are indebted to correspondent of the Baltimore Re-
publican for the high compliment which pays us in reply
10 wisconsin" Our only surprise still is that such an
article should have appeared in the National Inelgencer
Its publication, however, affect our course We
have personal acquaintance with the new Second
Assistant Postmaster General We scom to entertain
any vndlctive feelings in consequence of the very i'll
judged attack of his defender We act from higher mo-
tyes. We regard Mr. Warren as unfit TO discharge the
delicate and important duties OF the Office 10 which he
has been promoted lie stands at the fountain head of
the immense patronage which is attached to the Post
once Department We find from the last annual report
OF the late Postmaster General, of December O. 1885,
hai The number OF post Offices the LIST July last
1889, being increase during the year of 013 The
number OF Offices established 1909; the number
discontinued $685. Since this report was written other
offices of course have been established and th number
now existing cannot be far short of 1000. Estimating
even 1000 OF these as producing nett of
Sl,oOo-and, of course, subject a nomination by the
President, and confirmation by the Senae-we would
have about Is 900 postmasers in the selection of whom
the Second Assistant Postmaster General will exercise
no nconsderable influence. The officer who is thus in
vested with so much influence should not be rabid
whig under administration which claimed at first to
be party He should never have been the chairman
of the Wing State Committee of Iowa Suspicion should
have approached him He should never have been
suspected OF the ingues and coruptons with which he
has been charged His private business transactions
should have been pure, that like the Roman matron
he should not only have been chaste, but above all
plcion Is Mr.. Fitz Henry Warren an officer of this de-
scription
We have not heard any echo of the discussion, in
which we have been engaged, from the State of Iowa
His appointment has not yet reached tina! distant State
time for us to hear the voice Of her press but hear
another voice from Massachusetts, and hasten to lay
its charges before readers, and before the admnisra
ton itself We appeal to the country to know if the fate
of sixteen thousand postmasers should in any degree de-
pend upon the influence of Mr. Warren We ask these
postmasers what they expect from his dispensa
tons. We appeal "even unto Cesar" and ask whether
the selection has not been unfortunate, and whether il
ought not 10 be rescnded
We extract the following article from the Boston Post
of the I'd instant, and submit it to the impartial consd-
Grafton of the President himself:
THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GESERAL.-Some
foolish. and probably very near, friend of Sol Fz Henry
Warrep, undertakes his defence the National ntei
gencer, but the writer only shows himself blackguad,
without benetng the character OF the office holder
The circumstances of the family failure in Brimfeld
thus given the Springfield Posts
1.-THE for the insolvency of Philemon Warren,
John VI Warren, and Fitz Henry Warren issued
Sh of December 1913 The debts proved against
firm amounted about $50 900, a few of the
being held by mechanics who had earned their claims by
hard labor With the property the hands of the assignee
dividend OF four and srih the dollar de-
claed and paid In the OF the proceedings in
sovency protest, of which the following is copy,
| submitted
"'SPRINGFIELD, Jan. H. 1914.
John NJ Warren, and Fz Henry Warren, all OF Brimfeld
debtors the OF fifty dollars more, hereby sig
nifty Erasmus d. Beach, esq, in chancey,
dissent aud objection the granting of any certificate of
discharge either OF said Debtors belief and
ton that there must be properly large amount, belong
ing the said Debtors which has been disclosed and
passed benefit Of their creditors We confirmed
this belief from the following facts, viz, &c. &c.
The above protest signed by twenty three creditors
of the firm, among whom the " Toand County Bank
by attorneys, Chapman, Ashmun, and Norton 'Friend
Humphrey, Co, by their attorneys Chapman, Ashmun,
and Norton - and Isaac c. Cobb, by his attorneys Chap
man, Ashmun, and Norton" Mr.. John NJ. Warren
ceved his discharge, but Philemon Warren and Ftz Henry
Warren the latter of whom the fnancier of the con-
cen, refused their discharge, and the claims still
standing against them, there being nnety-fve cents and
ive-sixths for every d,llar OF the original claim