Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-02-25
celsmbus Post Office Chnnge--
The why and Wherefore.

Gov. Grelnef, of the Gazette VINO KNOWS
all about important Columbus matters from
the big bore for water to run the General
Assembly to the steam squirt now employ
ed to fill the big kettle on the top OF the
Can;tol-makes record of the prodigious
sensation the transfer of Millef's political
head to the shoulders of Medary created in
the everyday Sabbath keeping city of Gen.
trail Ohio. Hear him:
Astonishment and indignation was pic
tured upon the countenances of all the lead
ing Democrats, and crocodile tears fell from
the eyelids and the noses of the hypocrit-
ical Black Republicans who 'taourned as
the uano doodle mourneth for its first born.
The cause of Mr.. Miller's removal, we be-
lieye to be this: He was known to be a
leading and influential friend of Mr.. Doug
las, and as it is well known that he hell a
mortgage upon the Statesman Office, it was
represented at Washington that he was the
prime mover and instigator in causing the
Statesman the leading democratic paper
in the State, to take the Douglas track up
on the Kansas question. An agent of the
Administration, as We learn, called upon
Mr.. Miller in his office, about two weeks
ago, aud presenting him paper, requested
his signature to it, endorsing the course of
the Administration upon all questions past,
present, and to come Mr.. Miller spirited
~ refused to sign any such document, and
indignantly throwing the paper from him,
he declared that he would infinitely prefer
retaining his own independence, to act as
his best judgment and conscience might
dictate, than to fill the best office in the
gift of the President. The consequences
of this bold and manly avowal is that be
is no longer Postmaster.
1t is well understood that Postmaster
Medary will once more take charge of the
Statesman, and support with all his well
known tact and energy the course of the
Administration upon the Kansas question.
The Anti-Lecompton Statesman owned
and edited by the son-in-law of Postmaster
Medsry, merely announced the charge in
the telegraph column-anothing more."-I
On Friday, however, it bravely said-"We
tread no step backward" added with
the right sort of emphasis:
We cannot imagine what has appeared
in this paper, or about it, to lead any por-
,ion Of our patrons in this city or in the
country to.apprehend any change in our
position as regards the Lecompton Consti-
tuition. We may say however once fo, all
that such thing is impossible. :
We feel bound by conviction, and by
every consideration of political consistency
and good faith, and of personal honor, to
60 on as we have begun, and by the help
Of God and the people We shall do so.
The Statesman also talks more defiant
" than ever to would -be-masters in Wash
ington and elsewhere, and shows no dis
position to surrender to the black flag of
the pirates on the rights of the people,
Its present pluek and backbone are just
what the Democratic nom Office holding and
notwithstanding masses in the Free States
iuly feel in spirit and spinal column, and
we trust the universal Strengthening up has |
been begun in earnest. James Buchanan
so far is well daguerreotyped in John Tyler
and Franklin Pierce Cleveland Leader.