Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-07-27

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they will not take out Of this Office, as they
never ordered them to be sent. l hope
you will send no more until You get orders.
Yours Respectfully,
R. CHALMERS,
Asst. p. H.
We thank you, Mr.. Chalmers, for the
admonition with which you conclude your
letter, but you will permit us to suggest
that the same would have been quite as
becoming on your part, and certainly bet
ter received on ours had it, in the first
place, been solicited by US instead of vol
unteered by you. We have heretofore
fattered ourself that we understand, per-
| fectly, the manner in which our business
should be conducted, and we have no hes
itation in saying that until our mind I'M
dergoes material change in that particu-
lar regard, we shall insist upon being left
to decide for ourself as to the propriety of
sending, or not sending, the REPUBLICAN to
"several persons in your vicinity" Prom
Using you that your advice will be duly
sought when it is needed, as to how this or
any other branch Of our business shall be
conducted, we desire to have it understood
that we shall continue to make it point
to please ourself first, and, with your per-
mission, shall make the qualification of
your feelings a secondary consideration en-
tirely
But, Mr.. Chalmers, if you will be kind
enough to listen to us awhile longer, we
Will consider your letter a little further
and, by way of rcciprocation, give you
some advice before we conclude, which we
have no doubt will have salutary effect,
and be of much service to you in the fu-
ture administration of the affairs of the P.
O. at Portland. Indeed, we knoU it will
do you good. And first, Mr.. Chalmers,
let US say that you seem to be pro-
toundly Ignorant as to what your duties
are as " Asst. P. NJ; and secondly, Mr..
Chalmers, we desire to add that besides
being totally untitled for the position you
occupy, as aforesaid, you are deliberate
falsifer Of the truth In other words, Mr..
Chalmers, to bring our meaning within the
range of your comprehension and prevent
any misunderstanding that you NIL ht labor
under In consequence of your ignorance,
we will change our phraseology somewhat,
expressing ourself in plain anglo saxon,
and saying that your letter, to which we
have alluded, contains wicked and mali
cious lie. This may strike you, Mr.. Chal-
mers, as being little more emphatic than
complaisant hut that, you know, is mat
ter of no particular consequence so long as
truth is the principal ingredient of our as
serton.
You knew, AIr. Chalmers, when YOU
wrote that letter, that you were penning a
| falsehood. You knew that Mr.. Duncan
Campbell, that Mr.. Louis Henefeldt, that
Mr.. James T. Curtis, and that other gem
tlemen whose names do not now occur to
us, to nearly all of whom the REPUBLICAN
has been sent regularly every week since
its commencement, had not refused to take
the paper from your office and when you
returned several successive issues of their
papers to US, marked refused" you knew
that you were guilty of high-handed out
rage upon their rights as we'll as our own,
and that you lied deliberately and meanly
in the bargain. We have visited your
town, sir, and personally called upon
the gentlemen we have named, who all as
sured US that they had not 'refused'' the
REPUBLICAN, and that you never had any
authority from them for returningit. We
know, moreover, that one of the gentle
men had previously subscribed for the pa
| Fer, so that in has case, at least, we have
corroborative evidence of the fact that YOU
lied; for after having paid his money for
it, it is not reasonable to suppose that he
would refuse the paper. As to the other
gentlemen, We have only to add that their
standing in community is sufficient guar
antee as to the truthfulness of their state
ments, and they will not for moment be
suspected of having misrepresented the
facts of the case in the least Having said
thus much upon the question of your verac-
ity, let US, in conclusion, proffer you a
| few words of advice.
And first af all, Mr.. Chalmers, YOU
should remember that Post Offices are es-
tablished and kept for the accommodation
of the public, and that Post Masters and
their Assistants are simply servants of the
people. Then you should bear in mind,
what you seem to have forgotten, that we
live in the Free State of Wisconsin. where
Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the
Press are guaranteed to US by the laws of
the land; and that you, and others like
you, who happen to be invested with lit
tie brief authority, cannot, as is done at
the South, crack your whip over our head