Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1856-12-27
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The members of the QuAsQuEroS In.
BRARN ASSOCIATION wild holda meeting in
the, LECTURE room over the school house.
on MONDAY Evening" Dec. a7th, 1T =
o.cloek, at whieh officers will be chosen.
and subjects handed i'll for discussion.
All interested are, invited to attend. and
members, both ladies and gentlemen, are
especially requested to be present. 10
au5HrgdBy order of the Committee.
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Not the lease among the many IN
suits and injuries which thestree senli-
ment Of the Nnrth. has suffered at the
hands Of Franklin Pieres and his syeo.
plants proselytes, has; been the mean
m~alignityy displayed by the Post Office
Department, since the opening of the lhe
Presidential canvass, towards. Republican
journals. While democratic papers, reg.
ular and campaign, were carefully dis
lrlbuted, and democratic documents were
put into the hands of every one who
would receive them, by these o6iSSing Of
i&icials, they openly declared war, through
their party organs, against ali Republi-
can papers which deyiated in any sense.
from q strict construction of the law.
The general instructions from the Post
Office Department enjoins upon all post
masters = liberal spirit in the performance
of their duties, and specially so charges
IN relation TO the distribution of news
papers. But il seems to have been re-
served for many of u present officials
10 discover that they mean one thing for
Democratic, and another for Republican
lournMaJl5s7- that they tmply a LIBERAL and
accommodalng construction, for the
former, but a strict and destructive one
for the latter.
chad hoped that now the Presiden-
tlal contestawas oyer, and the danger of
their supply of official pap being cut off
somewhatgoremoved that postmasters
would render their constructions in the
two casesea 9little more evenly balanced
and dared 10 think we might ask even
SO mach as an ordinary courtesy. I'm
der INSTRUMENTATION We sent to our ASST
Eine deputy over the way aofew papers,
with The request that he would distribute
them,a we could not, for a week or two,
make satisfactory arrangements for deliy-
cring them 1.-THE houses of those Of our
SUBSCRIBERS who reside i'm town, and be-
cause eve bad been requested by many of
them SO 10, do. But whether he has not
yet discovered that Mr.. Buchanan has
been elected, and the Democracy com
paratiYelyi safe for awhile, or whether
the two small mails which we oaght to
have daily are really as much as he can
spell through these short days, and any
additi9nM amount of laborEwould inter
fere with that somnalent repoEe into which
he so often lapsfs on cold nights, and
which'conlinues until the mail is far on
the road to independence, or whether
from some other cause, certain it is that
he has decided thai belLas no right2 TO.
place our paper into the boxes Of those
who have paid him forIsuch receptaeles,r
''unie&s 4e Ppylhm Jorftiii II ab1a :
Now we bog leaye To say 70 that aepy
ostote deputy tha.sifahe hid the : right
TO makssuch distribution when he uas
paid fu.i il, 10 had also the sameu"right'
when 4e 9asl got paid for 1t land though
there j. mo law which eoaapels him softo
do, yetthe seioit of the regulations laid
down taS his gnidance. gives us a right
TO demand it Of him. The law gives is
the privilege Of q free circulation in the
county,. and though this does not ey5
empt US from the duty of delivering cur.
paper n ma lis as Town, yet it. certainty gives
US the plr1iH yiilsegge e send nd 9 subscriber Is
paper to his box at the office, if he 50.
desires.
And among the rights which he
has antFss not let us dhumera,e one o.
Two which, probably lie has forgotten.
lie has.4feea4' figlt'Hto place a box for
ne RECEPTION 81 letters when the Office is
closed. He has not the '"right'-to lot
letters lay around on his counter while
he dealsaont ifisscandp aor his cider. lie
has notsthessrigit' 10 keep letters.in the
post Office fora vasds, n:heir there is I'M
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