New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-02

| eutoi VI lHc SfCets"e t~s" f'o<cT
made himself notorious by his abortive attsnpAs
prevent the delivery Of The TRIBUNE from u,
western post-ofices Being master of an oftcsx
distribution, be has snubbed buied and cCara
oil the minor deputies within the sphere Of bis d
fiuence, and has in eye.y way endeayored to nsts
them disobhsng and unaccommodating, as the
ought not to be- and as the people who pay the.
do not expect them to be- Gray has had b., n.
ward for this scavenger service to the Administa.
ton. He has been reapponted Deputy Postmn.s,
of Cleveland. While others arc rotated" oal
! Gray is kept in. Upon this be thanks God. taxa
courage and indtes column of poor stuff to prov,
that be was perfectly right in his course and TIA.
| Democratic officials ought not to facilitate As
| formation of TRIBUNE clubs. The most important
fact in this article is that Gray's name is not jobs
(as We have sometimes called him), but Jss,,l.,
Considering the readiness with which this man hs
| yielded TO temptation, We cannot perceive "hs
peculiar propriety Of his Christian cogaonlen"
But he shall have the full benefit of his correction
We shall make very short work Of this Joseph
| Warren Gray. The people want THE TRIBUNE
| The people support the Postmasters. Not lone i,
some shilling is received by these officials except
direct cash from the popular pocket It not, there
| fore asking moro than decent reciprocity to re-
auestthese gentlemen to obge the people; dfthey
can, not merely without any trouble but with some
advantage to themselves enable their neighbDr 20
secure THE TRIBUNE or any other paper at re-
duced rate, why, they ought to do so, and haves
right to do so. But Joseph Warren Gray is Of q
different mind. His belief is that Postmaster
have no right to abet the circulation of news
papers hostile to the Administration; and wo sup.
pose he further believes that any obstinate master
who insists upon such treason to sham Democracy
ought 10 be removed. Now, the circular which
Joseph Warren Gray evoked from tho great Cir.
cumlocution Office left every Deputy at liberty 10
deliver the club TRiBUNEs, and all other papers.
He was merely informed that he was under no
obligation to deliver journals coming to his Office
without direction. He knew that well enosh
before. The semidefanct Department at Wah
ington need not have rubbed it's eyes open to ell
him that. The ukase put him in no new position
So q good many Deputies went on as before; but
they soon learned what the sOmnolent grun Of their
General meant. They were not at liberty to dc
tribute THE TRIBUNE. They were "caed back
Ito use the words of Joseph Warren Gny)
"to their political as well as official duties
Small Post Offices were abolished. Others were
removed. Sundry contumacious masters were de-
captated. The people were put to great ineco-
yenence, not only in respect OF receiving their
newspapers, but also their letters. The works
still going on An ex-Postmaster in Pennsylvania
under date Of the 9th instant, writes to US %
follows:
81 suppose the interests Of The TRIBUNE will sufx
tremendously in our place as the Democracy have
removed me from the Post-Ofce assisting the creu-
atiJh of The TRIBUNE being the main oe)tction@
me. That prioileee, horeper, can retain
Now with all due respect, we beg leave to ok
Joseph Warren Gray, esq., Postmaster Of Cse-
land, Ohio, and spiritual director and generassino
of all the country Offices in his vicinity, what, in
the name of the Constitution aud Of common sense,
are the political duties Of Postrnssterthsd duties
| to which he has "recaled' many wandering
sheep? Some of his duties we understand per-
fectIy. He is TO receive letters and newspapers
for the mail, and he is to deliver them. But what
pray, are his political duties7 Are we to be tod
that one of these is Systematically to discourage
the circulation Of opposition newspapers to inter
fere with the wishes of the people, and to suppress
if possible all printed criticism Of the sham Demo
cratic party! That is what Joseph Warren Grgs
doctrine amounts to.
We do not believe that the citizens Of the United
States will submit to any such petty tyranny. The
whole thing ia so utterly preposterous that il
not be persisted in. The grumbling against the
Department is already deep and earnest; and il all
the Postmasters were like Joseph Warren Gray,
We should soon have reform. Meanwhile, this
crusade against THE TRIBUNE is also erussds
against all journals which have or hope to hares
large circulation. Being SO, we fancy that ths i%
pudent assumption of censorship will prove Of sson
continuance.
SO much for Mr.. Joseph Warren Gray IN DIS
various capacities Of Deputy Postmaster Ssere'
Mail Agent, inspector of the morals and consersa
tor Of the politics Of his brethren in ONCE D"'
this chvalrous soul has undertaken ano'ner on"'
which, for valor intrepdity, pluck and nighV coa'
centrated chiyalry has not been equaled since tns
days of Don Quixote. His Democtauc soai sNes
with wrath at finding paper 50 hereuca'' 80 "A
| Of plausible but crazy theories a. LIE iRlS
uNr actually preferred by 80 many people to BIZ
oun lucid. learned and lively Plain Dealer. IN m
| ps,siop. Joseph Warren Gray pays US some Of mo
bandsomest compliments which We ever reee'ea
in our lives. +. g., he not only declares thai o@
manners are insinuating and seductive, bu'@
ayows in agony that:
sit was the twenty-eight thousand TRrsrsh ~
scribers and the one hundred thousand TRIBUNE 49,
err THAT gave the 5000 Fusion majority IN - ~
against US in 81 and the 10, 600 In % NJ
neiarious circulation that gave over -. aenigau,