Litchfield enquirer., 1869-05-13
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 The Winsted Postofice : During the past two weeks we have ven- tured few words regarding the Winsted Postofice difficulty in the quieting, peace making line. Whether owing to our awk- warkness in that capacity. or to the inhe-. rent cussedness of the whole peace making business, we come in for two columns and q half of explanation in the last Winsted Herald, with the following supplemental thwack over the head at the end: 1 (PR1vATE TO BROTHER HIcKox).-The Republican majority in your venerable town of Litchfield has not hitherto greatly exceeded that of Winchester | in average verwhelmingness,-but you can un- doubtedly capture our laurels by taking the prop CT course. Get somebody with republican infiu- ence to run your post office of to Skint Lane, and your Court House to Raish Benton's, and you will see much concord on Litchfeld Hill that you won't know what to do with 1t. a
 The Herald claims that the people of Winsted have not had fair hearing from neighboring Republican papers, which have been concerned rather to avoid difficulty in the party, than to listen to their just | ing are, substantially the facts of the case:
 1st. That the people of Winsted and of West Winsted need, and for more than
 twenty years have had, post-office in each village. ei5 ..tr.,5 r...- sy5s4sag, ' !
 2d. That upon the attempted conselida- tion of post-ofices some years since, it was proved that 83 per cent. of the population of the borough, 83 per cent. of the grand list. and 92 per cent. of business paying internal revenue taxes, were opposed to consolidation. 3lisL5 silI .I.9g l 3d. That Special Agent of the Depart ment sent to examine and report the facts, advised the restoration of the two postal districts, and that those post-offices were thereupon restored. snaE-,@.t r,.. e.
 4th. That an unprincipled clique of Re
 publican boilers, after Intellectually endeav-
 bring to bring about consolidation, under
 Democratic auspices during the Johnson
 regime, have succeeded in accomplishing
 their design under the present Adminis- tration, through the revengeful agency o
 our late Republican Candidate for Con
 gress. eA@ -@f' Now, we certainly believe that there is
 much truth in the foregoing allegations.
 In the personal issue that has arisen be
 tween our friend who now edits the Herah
 and its former proprietors there could hard ly be room for doubt Even if we had no , happened to kao,D MT. Vail, we should bt
 apt to decide against the blackguard wht has to assert that an opponent !" intentioa , aly ies' when he means to charge any thing more serious than a mistaken state ment. Furthermore, we have no doub that the people of Winsted are entitled tt
 restoration of their two post-offices. Se far we go with our friend, but when i comes to asking us to believe that Messrs Ferry and Beardsley are parties to mis : erable plot for revenging the late Republi can. defeat in Winchester on innocent heads We must have better evidence than on,
 "bolting outlaw" who recants in this Her ald, and two other bolting outlaws who's : testimony is comparatively unimportant 2 Whoever may bo to blame for the trans action, we cannot doubt that the Depart 9 ment will accede to tine just demands of tn E. people of Winsted when properly brough l to their notice. Until this relief is denie, . would not it be as well for the Herald t ipractice on its own preaching, and no 8 threaten to punish the something over IA, , 900 Republicans of this district for the faul r of one. 9ei lsis1'