New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-28
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MONDAY MORNING, sEpTEMBER Is, lss7
Postal sIiseries.

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We have all along supposed that the arst duty Of
Democratic postmasters was to devote the time gen
orally understood to belong to their ofcial capacity
to building up the circulation and otherwise aiding in
the support and prosperity Of Democratic newspapers
and at the same time suppressng as far as possible
all political prints Of every other character In the
execution Of the latter part Of this task the important
offices they hold afford peculiar advantages. We
have also been under the impression that Democratic
editors were not altogether insensbe to the benefits
they must reap from this arrangement and that, as
matter Of course out Of pure gratitude, they would
hold themselves in readiness to defend, not only any
individual postmaster who might in their service
neglect the legitimate affairs OF his office, but the
whole Post-Ofice Department, in every branch,
should it happen to bring down upon its head the
anathemas Of long suffering people.
As general thing our calculations in this connec'
ton have proved correct. Where Democratic papers
can find nothing to laud in the management of the
postal affairs Of the country they wisely keep their
mouths shut, and when the mails happen to come
throu Ugh in schedule time twice in succession, they
illuminate laundering paan to the powers that be,
and one after another takes up the echo. Thus we
find the administration organ copying geefuly from
sundry Western journals golden opinions OF the
Postmaster General for his promptness and efficiency
in meeting the postal necessities OF the Mississippi
valley" Heaven help us! Are we of New Orleans
in the Mississippi valley" or not? We suppose we
are not; or, we are, situation is far away in
the tail end Of it that we deserve "promptness and
efficiency Whether we are in the tail end Of it in
fact Or not we know that far postal matters are
concerned we are very much down in the mouth.
We have recently become acquainted with most
hagrant case Of recreancy to the course laid down
above for Democratic editors to pursue towards post
masters and the PostOfice Department generally.
Our own conception Of the enormity Of the offence
is too tremendous for words and therefore give it
to the public as we find it, first holding up the
ofender-the Baton Rouge Advocate the reproba
tion OF every true Democrat and especially Of every
true Democrat in Office. Read
These and hundreds like them daily fill the the let
ter boxes OF newspaper publishers in Louisiana and
if indictng indignant paragraphs could put stop to
complaints, the evil would long since have been
healed but it is disease above such puny treat
ment. Our business, as well, no doubt, as that of
every other publisher in the State annually injured
to serious extent by the miserable latter-oay abor
tion known as the United States Post Office Depart
ment. From the injury to our own business, we can
imagine what our New Orleans contemporaries must
sustain by the failure of government agents to per-
form the duties which they stand pledged to do.
Have we against the causes that combine
cripple our interests and wrong the reading public
Can no means be adopted by which the Department
at Washington can be aroused to the enormities
heaped upon the people of the Southwest by incapa
BILE, irresponsible and negligent subordnates in the
service? Are the contractors postmasters or wharf
boat agents the criminals? Who will ferret out and
expose the delinquents and their delinquencies?