Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-05-22
The HEuntfngdon Monitor.

dicate his preposterous assertion that Mr.
Morrell wrote note to bargain with other
parties after he had knowledge that Mr..
Miller hutt been or certainly would be
as Postmaster, Or that he would
bargain in such matter for any consid-
Grafton, may be a man in stature but must
be a baby in intellect if he is monomaniac
enough to believe what he asserted. Called
upon to disprove what we pronounced Il
FORGERY, and do yet he is compelled to
acknowledge that he made a mistake Of
three days in the date, that he can pro-
ducc no such note, and his honorable wit
ness /. II. Hildeorand, itseens neither read
nor had the note but saw piece of paper
from which was read what he says he
bcijeDos It contained. Not having seen it,
how does he know that Mr.. Morrell either
wrote or signed it? Your proof Mr..
Baron Munehauscn's History would hc in
Il Court OF Justice-a copy of which book
ought by all means to be furnished to the
Monitor for the edifcation of its seven
d wills. the number usually allotted TO cop
iou.naIs in the North by His Serene
IiGhness JEFF Davis.
Whether Mr.. Miller had heen confirmed
when Mr.. NJ. left Washington we do not
know, nor is it very material; but we do
know that Mr.. Morrell addressed a letter
t. a citizen Of this place, after his arrival
home, which we did not hear read, but
r.
stating that the arrangement had been
made as published last week, that it was
the best he could do, and that he had left
of a note to that effect at Huntingdon, at
tic ccry time the .H0aitor alleges he icN Of
IT'S proIuctiOa. This shows that he had
knowledge Of Mr.. MiIler's appointment,
either through the coppcrhcad clique
who held the Huntingdon post office but
not the nan, or else through the Senate
which could confirm or reject the man
when named. He made repeated efforts
to have q republican nominated, but even
a one-armcd soldier would not answer
Johnson. Reduced to Il certainty that
the Kitchen Cabinet would suffer the
President to send iii no name except one
Of the elect" Mr.. Miller became their
choice Whether the Tyrone conclave
kept the office for sale,-which we sup
pose is the "other quarter the Monitor
alludes to-we do not know; nor dO we
know whether that paper and its witness
are particularly pleased ut Mr.. Mill RS
perhaps neither would have
l..
Politically the offices Of right belong to
the republicans, and if previous to this
other parties were endeavoring to procure
share in the post office, they Were doing
no more than the copperheads of Hun
Jingdon were doing themselves, not only
in time past, Jut IN this Ucly case, and if
we felt 50 disposed could give names that
might cause some squirming in the camp
followers surrounding the Monitor.
For anumbcr ofycars, As is well known,
Members OF Congress OF the same politi-
III faith as the administration exercised
I controlling influence in their districts
in appointments to office. This was the
case with both parties; and consequently
when Andrew Johnson sought to manu-
facture party of his own, the bread and
butter portion Of the patent democracy
endeavored to make up in t1attery all
.oadyism for their bitter assaults on him
1t the time he became President, and thus
created an anomalous state of things in
appointments to office almost unknown
in our history. Johnson had been elected
,,f
The rebellion went beyond what even a
Large portion of that party desired; in turn,
le became equally bitter against the re-
3ublicans, and in many instances placed
~ Office and sought in council the very
men who had most bitterly assailed him.
The Senate at first confirmed quite num-
Der of proscriptive nominations to impoE-
tnt offices, but finally took the undoubt-
elly correct stand that they were apart
( Of the appointing pO,ccr, and thenceforth
began to reject these MaWwOrms. The
howl raised by the hungry pack of cor
mOrants at this righteous proceeding eX-
cecded anything we remember politically,
and those papers which had been stencil
t. the nostrils of0H loyal soldiers, whether
democrats or republicans, for their advo-
/ cicy of treason and traitors, were foremost
in this hyena pursuit. Some of their
keepers had spent hundreds of dollars
perhaps thousands-in buying the empty
honor of a nomination for office, and fair
ly gnashed their teeth when they found
themselves minus both money and office.
This condition of affairs led to comprom-
ises Of various kinds, of which the Hon.
Edgar Cowan, late Senator from this
State, could 10 doubt give an accurate
history, for, from appearances, whoever
bore his recommendation, needed no other
either with President Johnson, Postmaster
General Randall, Browning and many
other officials. The result was that the
offices were frequently divided, repubii-
can Senate confirming a republican for
one office and democrat, or even copper
head for another.
In this congressional district, which is
noted for tricky copperhead politicians,
an attempt was made to secure every
office worth having in it, many of the
nominees being men as destitute of polit-
ical principle as mountebanks could well