The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-06-13
The Way the Governm emit Performs
its Daties.

ton, TO send memorial 10 the Post Office I
Department to prevent the reduction of the |
mail service between here and Rockport,
says:
There can be no objections TO the forward |
ing of as many petitions and memorials to |
the Department as can be drawn up-but
we doubt whether ton of them will have
much effect. The service on this and other
important routes has been reduced because
there was not sufficiency of funds to carry
on the operations of the post Office Depart
meut IL is impossible for the Department
to discriminate in favor of those routes
which are actually important amid the mass
/ OF petitions daily sent before it asking the
restoration of service in every State and
/ Congressional district Of the Union. Per-
/ sonal representations 90 much farther than
/ memorials We know Judge Niblack will
| labor assiduously to restore the service on
/ the Rockport route TO six trips week. Ii
/ was through his unceasing labors that the
service was originally secured. Ii the prop
er influence. can be brought to bear upon
other influential representatives nj Wash
ingtOn and their efforts I've united with
those of Judge Niblack, we believe the daily
service will be re established, if not before,
Immediately after the meeting of Congress.
The new editor of the Enquirer has been
long in the Postofiice, and has seen service
in the Departments ut Washington; and no
one knows better than he the manner in
which the Government affairs ase managed
in the Departments at Washington, under
this Administration. And be makes a sad
disclosure of the practices Of the times upon
which we have fallen enough is said, we
should think, to arouse the Indignation 81
every Democrat that has IL spark of the gem
uine spirit IA his heart or head The people
may send tons IF petitions to tho Depart
meut, bat they will do ny service II they
want 10 secure any attention to their most
vital interests from the administration, they
mus beg for il through certain party lead
ers and official incumbents, who hold the
ear of power and control all its dispensa-
To have our most imperative necessities
supplied in department of the public ser
vice where the government has constituted
an odious monopoly for itself, we are in
structed " appeal to Judge Niblack by pc
tition, and to bring PROPER INFLUENCES 10
bear on certain influential Representatives. at
Washington
Who is Judge Niblack that the people
should beseech his influence in their behalf?
Is he member of the Executive Govern
ment, has he any more right to control or
dictate to it than any other citizen of this
Congressional District? Does his functions
or his legal and constitutional power extend
these influential representatives ut WASH
ington to bc propitlated? What are their
positions and authority, and what kind of
Influences will reach them? Has the time
E come when the people must have ,nediators
-cuuipoSed of mercenary demagosues-
tween themselves and those they have
clothed with the powers of government p
Cannot the people approach the footstool OF
Executive authority except through the
medium of a selEconStituted clique, who
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