Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-22
FifZ Henry Warren--Tne Bristol
and Salem Post Offices.

We have no doubt that the selection of tho
individual whose name heads this article, for the
position of I'd Assistant P. NJ General, by Dix.
Collamer, (or Collier 'um, as he is sometimes
cailed) may be attributed to the necessity which
this latter individual supposed to exist for giving
the Locos fits. Mr. Collar 'um has carried OUT
this necessity, both figurativcly and really. to
the greatest possible extent; for, truly, Mr.. Ftz
Henry Warren does give the Locos as well as the
whole community, fits. 1t was an evil day for
the country at large, when the opponents Of this
functlonary drove him to the necessity of procu-
ring afhdavits to establish his honesty for in do
ing this they seem to have driven him also to a
condition savage desperation and he lays about
him indiscriminately, Ike wild beast at BAY
Like the giant Blunderbore, who had a savage re-
lish for the blood of Englishmen, Mr.. Warren
keeps mutterina,
Fe, f, 70, fun, smell Loco blood, Mr. Collar 'urn,
Dead or alive will have some,
And seems pretty evident that his relish is not to
be appeased while victim remains.
Now we have no doubt but there are Just as
good fish in the sea as have been taken from it.
and we are equally clear that there are ,vhiqs
just as capable of performing the duties of the Of
fees of the country, as the Locos who have or
who now hold them, and therefore we have no
objection to the displacement of the latter and
the substitution of the former But we have d
scr To flo, +bo 4
whole community, to CRAFTY love of proscrip-
ton. We hold it to be the duty of public off cers
to regard first the public interest, and they have
no right whatever to make changes that will con-
fct with that interest, and when they do, it is an
act of Tyranny which ought not quietly to be
borne by the people. We say unhesitatingly,
that the recent change of postmasters, by which
the location of the offices have been changed, in
the towns of Bristol and Salem, in this county,
is as wanton an act of Tyranny as ever disgraced
Il despotic government. Doubtless the men ap-
pointed are as capable as the old incumbents, and
no better, but in the name of Heaven, where is
the excuse for discommOding fve-sixths of the
whole people, to make political change in an
office not worth fifty dollars a year. In both
towns the post offices were located just where
the interests of the people required;-at point
convenient for all and where there was public
house, store, blacksmith shop, &c. They have
been removed in beth cases, from one to two
miles distant from their late locations and in the
case of the Bristol off ice, where, as we are in
formed, after the first of August, there will not
be even a public house. Where they were they
accommodated the whole community, and we
doubt whether ten men asked for the change
which has been made The people of Bristol,
we are told, are determined not to be so imposed
on. Mr.. Jackson, the late post master, will run
an express once a week from Southport, and the
people generally will have their letters and pa
pers stopped here to be taken out and delivered
by him.
The people of these towns ought not to SUBJ
NIT quietly to such acts of tyrrany. Let them
petition to man on the subject. Let Mr.. War
ron have no excuse, on the score of e lorance,
for his con duct, and if, after the matter is fully
before HIM, he refuses to do justice to those
whose servant he is let them remember him and
the party that put him where he is, at the ballot
box.