Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-03-27
aay> We have more than once felt

take pleasure IN doing 80 now.
The Office Of postmaster Is one Of
the most trying and difficult man
can undertake to gil. Few persons
stop to consider the multifarious
and perplexing duties connected with
it, and still fewer number seem dis
posed to make due allowances for
the mistakes that unavoidably occur
at times, in the sorting and delivery
of constantly accommodating masses of
mail matter. Censure is sometimes
freely INDUCED at the expense of
the postmaster, when, if the circum-
stances were fully looked into and
understood, the public would find
more cause to attach blame to the
department at Washington than to
its humble agent upon whom it inn
poses vast amount Of labor with
out furnishing him the necessary
facilities to perform those labors in
way to afford general satisfaction.
Previous to the disorganizing re-
WILSON'S brought about by the late
late war in the postal as well rs
other affairs appertaining to Govern
ment control and management, there
was much more smooth sailing than
at present in regulating and dis
charging the duties Of the post office.
But, even then, we can remember
how difficult it was for postmasters
to meet the exacting will and pleas
ure of the public. 1t was no UNI
common thing in those days to hear
the most careful, correct and obIiging
individual filling such stations
damned to all intents and purposes,
for alleged remissness. negligence or
other cause, when, perhaps, the old
gentleman who was managing the
''red tape, circumlocutory office" at
headquarters away off yonder, and
enjoying bis ''otium cum dignatate,"
was the person meriting all the cen
sure and denunciation.
In all that VIC have said ON this
topic, we trust we shall not be mis-.
understood as stepping forward in the
light of an apologist to shield any
one who, in the past, present, or at
any future time has or shall prove
himself upmeriting the public conf
dence or respect. In canvassing the
merits or dement's of public servants
we would "nothing extenuate, nor
aught set down in malice" There
is nothing easier than to criticise OF
censure, and the proverbial censori-
BUSINESS of the world, sometimes lead
men to sit in judgment on the acts Of
those who are quite as unimpeachable
as they themselves are. How i'm
portant then, it is, to guard against
the warnings Of prejudice or vague
and partial statements in matters al
fecting the characters Of our fellow
men.
Wherever fragrant wrongs and
abuses exist, it is right and proper
that they should be met and dashed
into correction. A case in point was
developed in the recent suit Of the
State as. L. Frank, tried by jury be-
fore the District Court in session
here, and to which our neighbor o.
the Advocate has referred in terms
OF strong and just animadversion
The accused was charged with being
implicated in an infamous cottor
stealing transaction. The evidence
against him was of the most positive
and conclusive character. 1t was
shown moreover, by sworn state
ments, ahat he had undertaken t.
bride a witness to leave so that b,
could not appear against him, anc
that he had offered a bribe in gold tt
Mr. Knickerbocker, the incorruptibl'
District attorney, through whom
(mistaking his man, however,, h
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