The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-07
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BY VIM. II. MERRITT.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. =, 1855
THE DUBUQUE z. M. AND THE HER
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treated to two and half columns of editorial,
upon the Post Master and Post Office affairs.-
Oat of some forty fifty letters written TO Post
Masters, to extract from them fact or opinion
derogatory to the Pos, Master in this City, we
find in the Herald farorat,e replies to eight of
them. Is it reasonable TO presume that these
eight, were all the letters received in reply TO
the large batch sent to r M's' II seems 10 US
not Why then do not the editors display their
impar,ialty and love of justice, by giving both
sides of the ques,ion-by giving the evidence
for, as well against The Post Master.
We have never failed 10 admit, when required
to speak out upon this subject, that there were
doubtless errors committed in this office, as wei
as others. There is a general complaint the
country over, which is uniformly the result of a
chlnge Of administration and the installation of
new officers, and it would be miracle, if, while
every other community is harrassed with mail
irregularities, ours should entirely escape. Mr.
Corkery entered the office without any expert
ence in the business and obliged to rely upon
green Clerks to assist hp He was compelled
10 remove his office soon after qualified. Scarce
ly had he arranged matters in his new room
when he was ordered to take charge OF, and dis
tribute the mails for the North West Inexperi
enced himself, without any one to assist him ex-
cept young man from the country with no
knowledge of business, and unable to procure
for some time any additional help upon which
he could rely, and up TO the present moment,
man Of any experience in the business, we could
not reasonably look for more faithful and eff
had. Night after night have the men in that
office, from the Post Master, 10 the Delivery
Clerk, been compelled to labor until four clock
in the morning, in order to finish up the days
work.
We are not disposed to defend any officer,
who is palpably and wilfully negligent of his
duty but being familiar with the personal rela-
lations existing between the editors of the Her
aid and the Post Master Of this Cty-the
strong personal and party hatred which they
entertain towards him-the persecution they
have heaped upon him and nearly every other
officer, who had the recommendation Of our
Senators in Congress, and not that of the Ex-
Member from Dubuque-:he pains they have
taken and the schemes they have invented to
reflect odium upon hm-the ingenuity they
have displayed in addressing letters to the coun
try Post Masters, by telling them that parties in
Dubuque, attach the blame to the country off
ces, and thereby arousng the pride and indig-
nation of the country Post Masters-and The
strong personal desire on their part TO see him
removed and an other placed in his stead-we
are the more reluctant TO credit what personal
or to give any countenance to men, whose stu
pidity and venality never elevates their mental
vision, above their own sordid ideas of gain
II they could gain temporary victory over the
Post Master, in This City, by which their per-
sonal spleen, their political anmosity and their
sordid ambition, would be for the time being
gratiied, even at the cost of losing the Distri-
buting Office and causing permanent injury 10
the place, they would leave no stane unturned
by which it could be accomplished For this
community to administer to such vile, morbid
appetite, is suacidal in the extreme.
If the Post Master is so odous to the commu-
nifty, why don't some leading members of it, and
rot his personal enemies of the Herald, take
this matter in hand? They are the men to effect
a reform. But unfortunately for the patriotic ed
itors ofthe Herald, they have nothing to say
We think this matter has gone quite far enough,
and if the vile coterie about the literary dog
gerry up town, prompted by neither good sense,
nor decency, will not control their unbridled
passions, wholesome rebuke from the citizens
should be speedily administered.