Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-24

| The JOURNAL AND THE PosToFFIcE
LoAFERs.-The following communication
was handed us with request that we give
It place as matter OF justice. We pub
lish 1t because we believe it to be right
There is no need of the indiscriminate at
tack that is made on the police force in the
article published in the Journal of FRI
day last and but that that sheet is
pledged to tho metro political and every
other swindle of its party, it would ac-
knowledge that Columbus has as eff
cient q force as can be found in any city
in the State OF Ohio, while at the same time
it is much more gentlemanly. There NAV
be individual cases. OF neglect OF duty but
even these are rare, and are to be expect
ed. LIT justice be done though ihe Heav-
en- fall" But tie communication:
Mr.. EDIroR-Some scribbler, wishing to
cali public attention to himself in an article
b ,aded .'Great Excitement; Grand Free Ex-
hibition; Black Legs and White Legs"
&c, uses the following language, in speak
ing OF the many attempts made by the
Postmaster to keep the . long drawn out
entrance to the postoffice clear:
:" In fact some of the police are among
the most accomplished of the supernu
meraries on the corners. The manner i'm
which they bring the blush to the cheek OF
modest women is beyond all praise. Their
official position protects them in liberties
which the unofficial person, in the exercise
vi Q sound discretion. can only envy, not
emulate. This Is sometimes a source of
complaint on the part of the best of
our starers: but it is one of the natur al
advantages of Official position, and the well
regulated mind must acquiesce."
Now, sir, l ask you in all candor if the
above is not wicked and malignant lie
Did you, or any citizen, ever see any of
the police loafing about the street corners
or about the postoffice? No, sir. The police
Tend to their duties and it is not one of
their duties to run the postoffice entrance
Tor Postmaster Wood. The author of the |
blackguard article to which l refer, uses
rufdanlylanguage In regard to decent ladies,
md speaks of them in such way as to draw
he attention ofmen, as low as he Is, to them.
II they are insulted by the stare of men
with the writer of the Journal ar
;icle, at the American Hotel corner, that is |
lot Postmaster Woods business, and the
police will attend to the man pointed out |
% them as so offending. 1t they are in
suited In the Postoffice, that is Postmaster
Woods business, and he should bring his
nearer the street where the police
ian take cognizance of it.
But, he says, the police are not to be
rusted to do their duty. The public do
lot say so-the security perty in this
ity gives the lie to the assertion. The
gentleman who has charge of the force is
n honest upright man, and would do
wrong to no one. The night and day po-
Ice of this city are not surpassed any
where, and it should be the aim OF the
Journal to aid them in reaching still
higher efficiency, and not by ISLANDERS and
'ase insinuations attempt to injure and dis
ourage them.
But the whole thing is done in the in
crest OF the Metropolitan Police plan, AMI
don't think would be far out of my way
were to charge the authorship of the
rticle on one of the late Commissioners of
he Metropolitan Police.
9i Yours, A.