Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-02-25
PoSt-OMce Removal.

: FIhe following communication should have
appeared in our paper of last week. It was &C.
cidently mislad:
Pest-0ffice Removal.
FRIEND HARRIs:-Ere this you have heard of
the late change made in the Post. Office location
in Charlestown; but perhaps the means used to
bring about said change may not be so familiar
toyou and the readers Of your paper. There
fore, being somewhat conversant with them
purpose laying them before you. The successful
effort, was the second one made to remove MIR
Brown. The first petition was started at the
instance of a certain Doctor (he now having made
his exit from the place and not wishing to injure
the feelings of the people by refreshing the
memory of his name will not call it) This Pc
tition was graced by ALL Of THREE SIGN
ERS. Frail as it was, however, the people
hearing of the move, started q remonstrance
which in the course of few hours circulation,
received about Eighty subscribers, embracing
men Of all parties; indeed the remenstrance it.
self was based upon no party consideration. 1t
| went to Washington and had the desired effect
the will of the people ruled and the petition con
tanning the LEARNED Doctors name, together
with his two associates, was never honored, even
| with decent burial.
A few weeks elapsc and another petition is
started. And by whoma Has another member
of the ill-fated triad movedl Hot so. It wa.
one Of the first signers to the late remonstrance!
Indeed, and what can be reasons of this? Is
Brown beginning to dissatisfy the people in his
official capacityl By no means. Well, what il
the reason then? 1t is simply this: Since the
had Lawsuit before Mr.. Brown as Justice Of
the Peace and because Law and Testimony drove
the Squire to decisions contrary to the will Of
this man, he first threatens, then moves to take
the Post-office from him. Again you ask, who
is it, who having SO lately sent his name to
Washington, plainly certifying, that he was
satisfied with Mr.. Brown can have the hardihood
yea, the meanness, under such iimsy pretence
and in the exercise of such reptile passions, tc
petition against him. Be not surprised, when
tell you that we have man lat least one who
wears the human form) prepared for such emer.
| gencies, one who moves in just such an element
But being in somewhat of "a hurry, I will not
him, but will designate him by some of those
which he, in opposition to maternal gift, has
procured for himself With US, he is known as,
"Ihe Charlestoton God" (but by no means the
God we worship)-in Ravenna and other parts
of the county, as ',oould be Sheriff, but couldn't"
But STOP we are not agoing to attribute Browns
removal, all to this one, singh titleG' mans
influence. By no means, for we do not believe
his influence to extend much farther, than does
the true acknowledgement ofhis Deity: and had
the effort been made at Washington, in his or
any other name which his influence could pro-
cure, it would have proven futile, as his efforts
for the Sheriffality. But he, first moving in the
matter, through him who now holds the office,
had recourse to those in the county, who did have
influence at Washington and the removal was
made.
And thus was the will of the people set at de-
fance, by Wrestling the Office from one VINO hao
| long been their faithful and obliging servant.
| All we have to say about the new Postmaster is
| this; we shall expect him to manifest his usual
charity and all we ask in addition Is that ne may
prove himself as honest and obliging as his pred
In this removal, as well as in others, we have
an ocular demonstration Of great deficiency in
the laws by which we are governed; contrary as
they are in this particular to the great funda-
mental principle of the general Government,
viz: That the ,0tH of the people shall be the rul-
ing poper. In conclusion, the question presents
ITSELF why are not Post-nasters elected by the
people, and thus permit the people to be the
Guardians of their own interests?
A ACHARLESTOWN WHIG.