New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-22
JyDGE BLAIR AND THE RATIONAL
POST-OFFYCE. /,
=. a. 90, d az n. y. Tyi6ane.

81.
SIR: The announcement that the PostmasterCe
.ral hss without cause, removed Mr.. Benedict his
on appointee aud one most accopia0etc the Kaionah
District, ard has appointed in his stead MIR. Whit
lock. liquor dealer, against whom the people 30
sirongy protested, will be received in this city and
throughout the couatry with equal surplise and re-
cret, and we might perhaps safely add indignation.
Tie equality OF right that undeglies ony Institutions
gives to every governmental Quetion that Involves a
great principle an importance hat commenGs II to all
ci1ens, However small comparatively may be the
interest that in the first instance may chance to be
effected Especially is g. the case with the Post
Office Department, which was created for the com
fort, convenience and benefit Of TIE people tbem-
eegss, and any deliberate decision of the Po.tua. ter
General that wiluy ignores these eat ends Of the
Department, and wantOuly sacrifices the interests and
rights Of the community in any district, however
Insignificant, directly thtegens the interests and
tights Of the people in every postoce district Of the
Republic. In the Kstonah case a very large ma
jory of the residents OF the district, entitled 70
voice in TIE postoice question, and more than three
fourtbs Of the Taxpayer, who appear on toe me-
MORALS, protested agains, The removal Of benedict
who had been appointed on the recommendation ct
the Hon. A. +. Dickinson, Mr.. John Jay, Mr.
Jared d. Powell and Others, with the approval OF
the member for Westcbeser as being the best Post
master they had ever had and enc of whose admiri-
DE arrangement and mana .ement they were justly
proud They objected esfe tally 10 the appointment
Of Whit,0ek as q liquor dealer on grounds Of public
polcy and private comfort; and next they objected
Go bin personally, "a having been, wh-n POST
uss,ef under Buchanan 80 regardless Il his da-
ties, according TO tie aidayits and le,iers
fled with the Department as 20 allow the
mails TO be handled by IS, with the natural
result Of moneyed letters 1eng los,, private Letters
being orened and detained and newspapers being
constantly stolen, Until tteeaferers 10 two Gates weTc
compelled 10 direct their Letters 10 another oiee. On
Che Ground Of the liquor business alone the women
q Kstouah spoke os In sUcl case women ought 10
rpeak; and Oh tie back Of their petition as ndorted
3 note 10 Judge BAR in these words, by fFsaideut
lincoln:
impressed with The belief Tbs, the's should be no
esage In The name herein aud epoc ads u q be 9e
set.d ina. b. change The ocg IS to 20 to ace 500
liquor IS regularly ID. a. LINCOLN"
Whether or not Judge Blair regards Mr. Lincoln
81 unfit to express an opinion in such a case because
be was once a Wing aud has rover voted the Demo
Blair has dore TIE very thing ha, TIE President was
Impressed with tie belief, ana the whole country
vii share tba; impression, ought not to have been
done. and to-day, IN Eatoaah, tho power end inaG-
elce of lie National Government are openly OF the
side Of Rum, aud the men and women OF lie neigh .
borhood are compelled 10 80 for then letters and
aewspapers place where liquor is regularly so'a. /
Bat the Presidents was not tie only warning 10 /
the Postmaster General. Ills lest friends IN New
Xorb-tlose TO whom lie Las been The most III
dsbted, and who had the best risht to advise him
eoid him iraDky that the effort 20 eject s1ca chaue
3; defiance Of the viii Of the negh5orhooj no matter
BY what clique Of politicians tie act was urc d, 1
twas calculated if not intended TO impair the conf
oelce Of Tie people in tie Administration" and such
zen as Mayor Opdyke, Hiram ia ney, John j. /
Cisco. John +. Butterwort1 Morris Ke.chum, Della ,
fed Smith Moses Il. Grnneil, Il. 81. Bla'chford, /.
AID Isaac Sherman eamostly recommended him as a /
natter Of light and duty and interest, % regard the
wishes and interests Of the NatOuah District, and
laye Mr.. Benedict in ONCE long he ac.
sep,abe 10 tie people, and faithful to tie Admins
traton.
Tie misplacemsnt Of loyal Republican and model
Postmaster and the reappoutncut OF q man whose
naiadnliustration Of The psst-iAce under bnchsnan
was every way worthy OF bis tsaogous chef aud
IQuor dealer 10 boot, ~ not only crime but
bluuder, and the fact viii become more and more
spparent. TIE farmers aboG. Kaonah Gre not
accustomed to submit TO detaton, sDd are now more
thaa ever impressed with the conviction thar their
own safety and the stability Of the Republic
depends upon each e0Hmuuity's maintaining
lie own rights against enroacbment The gen
tlemen who called the fret meeting 20 protect
against Benedicts iemoya-such r.on as James
Goyt, Walter S. Lyon, Marx Harris, Newmen !
c. Lyon, Rev. a c. Gaiabue, Oliver Green, /
IT,, Harvey ". Smlb, wiz. tie Powells Meade. /
Newman MiDers, Todd. Haigtt.. Puneys, Knsprs, !
and other Substantial citizens, are not likely u lie;
Tire mater rest iii this wrong is righicd and no !
sn2ef how powerful the political clique by which it
las been PERFORATED. They well know TIA. in con-
tending for their own rights, they contending for
tlose Of the people in every posi-oice district and
that from every quarter viii come a demand tia,
their rights shall be respected, and tie displaced
Postmaster be restored. TIE determined feeling NJ
ready aroused tkroughoa, Wes;chester reealls the /
stirring ballad:
Ard shsN Treswncv ss1
Ald shal Ircl-wrey del
Ineu thirty tliou,sld C-rri.h boys
Nlh know tie reason wis 90
meeting is presently TO be held 10 receive the |
report u the Committee appointed some tio aince
torresent tho protest 70 TIE Postmaster General and
We understand that their report will show, by ex
taos from letters fled with the Department. tia,