Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-04-13
Political Prescription.

DoInGs or ls2e.-All along during the cam
paien which resulted in the election Of General /
jackson, Governor Hill was diligently employed |
collecting the names Of Wing Postmasiers in this |
State who attended Adams meetings, or even
signed calls for those assemblies; and in the |
spring of 1929 tho names Of the transaressors
were forwarded to Washington, with the request |
that the Administration would make clean work |
with them. And il faithfully followed out the
Recommendation of the Governor, for from that
time TO this, with exceptions few and far be-
tween, the entire host of New Hampshire Post
masters have been Locofocos Of the most unscrri-
pulous description. II their continuance in Of.
Zee hung upon so slender thread as whether
they did or did not interfere in elections between
1899 and lSi8, scarcely soul would remain.
More than that. II the test were whether they
have or have not frctlcd, by all possible conir-
vances, the publishers Of Wing newspapers
rudely treated Wings, when they called for pa.
pcrsi done all in their power to prevail upon
I people 10 stop Wing and subscribe for Radical
Journals kept back the papogs OF our side, so
that subscribers became fractions, and finally
stopped them, while papers Of tho other side
promptly reached their dcstnaiion-we repeat,
It the above dcrclictions OF duty werr made the
test, not a few Postmasicrs in New Hampshire
would be dismissed forthwith.
The Post Office Department, in the hands Of
TEN Of France, with The n,amous Fouchc at its
head. 1t was a tremendous political engine, and
the power Of 1t, in the hands OF the Locoiocos,
almost incalculable. by it, more than any other
agency, the Wings have been kept down; and
the time has arrived when its influence should
At least be neutralized, by bringing Wings into
H. Here " New Hampshire, Postmas,ers, with
bu, very few exceptions, have been the hardest
workers for the Administration.
Very many of the Posmaslcrs throughout
New Hampshire have, MS stated above done al
10 their power TO iniure the propretors Of Why
newspapers We entertain the mistaken belief
mat such conduct will never with truth be laid
TO the charge os such Wings as will be made
Postmasters in New Hampshire; and if smnl
transgressions again occur on the part Of III,
+ Locofocos their names. and the facts, fully sub
b. sian,ia,cd, should be Immediately transmitted Il
c the General Post Office Department.
$ Concord, ". H. Siaiennan
;, There is force and truth in the above article
u We know Of no State in the Union where pros
!. crpiion Of Wings has been 80 bitter and unre
! lening as in New Hampshire. The patronsg
of the state and Federal Government has beef
: particularly and odiously directed TO the op
preston and subsection Of tho Wing party i
that State, and no class has felt il more severed
than the publishers of Wing newspapers. The
r, have not only been excluded from the slishtei
IS participation in the State and u. S. printing b.
the Posimas,ers have, in very many instancei
e made it part Of their business to impede an
of injure their circulation.
We are no advocate Of prescription for opir
L ions sake, and for tina, very reason, would ju
D. tify removals in eases where appointments har
C been made in a proscriptisc spirit and wher
the chief qualification which secured the incuu
ben, his Office was active political partizanshil
" Probably il the archives OF the Post OfIic
y Department were examined, !. would be foun
that in nearly every instance, the only recon
mendaiion on Gle, for the appointment Of Il
:. present incumben,s, was superior activity ar
!. zeal in the cause Of" Democracy" II such
!. state Of things exists, even-handed justice 7
:. quires that those whose qualifications are mac
!, up OF such materials, should retire with the A.
|; ministration which regards such qualifications
a sufficient Recommendation.