Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-11-28

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the population heap error upon error,
and avail yourself of those errors in Or
der 10 supplant your employer; have
been tried by the vicinage and found
wanting; and. to sum up. they charge
you with want of principle and capaei-
ty.
Respectfully, your obedicnt,
JOHN MCLEAN.
The above letter addressed to 4 Post
m aster. contains specifications against
the capacity and honesty OF the delin-
quent which would apply with great
! deal Of force and truth to many OF the
present incumbents. We know that
there are some gcntlemanly and accom-
odating Postmasters now in office those
who have supported Buchanan but the
proportion is small. 1t somehow has
been beat into the most of them that a
part Of their duties is to keep Repub-
lican papers from being circulated, and
that they arc not under obligations to
notify Publishers when papers are re-
fused. If Custom House Office instruc-
tons have been obeyed, during the PEN
ding elec ton rather than Post Office in
structions, the election having gone by.
we hope that the Post Officc officials
will return to their duties, as defined
by the laws, and regulations of the Post
Office Department. We hope the time
will come when this class of govern
ment officials will be elected by the
people who do the business at the office
Under the present arrangement. men
+. get appointed who are totally unfit, and
i whose only recommendation are parti-
IAN services. A partizan may be a
good officer; and if we must hive such,
we hope those will be appointed who
will not think their office was created to
help the party, and to be conducted fer
that only. We knov Of some transac-
tons by few of these public functional
f ries, which we may publish yet.
Ly The Sniss mercenary who pre-
sides over the Free Press, calls US a
wretch" and thinks we shall feel fat
t red by his notice. Now we do not
feel much elated, by the paragraph be.
! slowed upon US. One does not often
have to meet such a foe; and if he
comes in contact. he cares not to say
much about it, if the lSmeu of his ea,.
ments does not tell the tale. We con
= slider it no credit, to voluntarily invite
an attack from such source, much less
to consider its praise or censure of any
consequence. When the aristocratic
Bangor Democrat turned up its nose a
e the Chairman of a Democratic State
$ Committee, and his free soil State ad
; dress in 1870, and almost ridiculed thu
I man and his principles, we thought thu
e Democrat wrong but time has proved
q its estimate of the man correct, and tina
his principles are measured by the dol
lars to be gained in their advocacy. Be
sides being mercenary politician, he i,
e acting the .'toady," and soldering JohI
/ Appleton, of the Argus, all over witt
: soft soap, hoping thereby to gain posi-
ton in the Buchanan party and retail
2 his present office.
h The Republican party care but little
If who of the sham democrats are selected
for the offices but to suppose that Blu
> chanan will pursue the policy of the re
firing administration, and buy up al
the spiss that are in the market. will
offices, is to suppose that nothing ha'
been gained from seeing this practic,
carried out by the imbecile Pierce dy
nasty