Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-06-11
The Presidents Plan.
Under this heading the New York Com
mercia1 saws.

Under this heading the New York Com
mercial says:
His appointment of II. NJ. Turner negro, to the Macon
tdal Post Office, together with his subsequent refusal
against the most urgent appeals TO reconsider the ap
ponment indicates the Presidents temper concerning
the nattar Of the recent outrages. Maccn has been
tants plainly 10 understand that they shall not fhe can
help it, repsnt their heels upon tie eczs of the liberated
bondsmen, put to death the lnionsts. And TO TINS
end he makes of the they would desrisc and
maltreat their postmaster-places the "ngger in po-
son where they have to ask and receive avors of him.
This is the long and short of the Macon Post Office mat
ter No number Of protests letters delegations, or rep
resentations that Turner s Il scoundre will change
Grants determination.
80, then, 1t is confessed and even boasted
by the Presidents organs that he did not
appoint the negro Turner 10 the Macon post
mastership for any oil the reasons that are
usually understood TO govern the selection
of postmasters. He did not appoint him on
account of his being tho best-qualfled man
or even man qualified at all for the posi-
tion he did not choose him because it was
thought that he would be acceptable to the
| people oh no, the negro was taken Tor the
reason that he sods negro, taken for the
reason, that, instead of being acceptable 10
the people, he was obnoxious TO them taken
/ for the reason that he was loathed by them,
| taken as an instrument TO punish them for
alleged politically obduracy, taken as q.
means OF iniicting vengeance on them for
their non-support of Radical measures and
principles. This IS the Grant rule of ap-
polntments substituted for the Jelersonlan
rule. "You don't please me In your politi-
cal action" says the President to the peo-
pie of Georgia, "and will put negro in a
position where you will have 10 ask and re-
cciye iavors of him. And is il for the
, qualification OF such base and ignoble spite
that the President of the United States is
entrusted with the distribution of the offices,
the honors, and the money, of the nationP
The New York editor says that ''no num-
ber of protests, letters, delegations, or rep
reservations that the negro postmaster at
Macon is scoundrel will change Grants
I determination" The editor does not quail
ify his assertion upon any snpposition that
the letters, representations, &c, may. be
true. No matter what the proofs may be
4 that the black official is scoundrel (and
/ the Georgia papers say that he is as villain
GUS negro as ever left his odOr upon the
gale), proof will have no effect on Grant
or, ii they have any effect at all on him, We
presume that it will be to decide him tC
8 clamp his negro all the more firmly upon
!, the necks of the Georgia people. Punish
+ meni is the ayowed purpose, and the grea
= ter the seoundrel the greater the punish
: ment.
g And how about the negro postmaster oc
y cupying IA position loher6 the people haze h
e ask and TeceiUe fdU0rs Of himI" What ar
e the ',tdo0rs" to be asked and recelved2 d
men, in bidding postmaster, black o
e, white, hand them their letters their ow
oi property, ask "a fa0Or" OF him Do they
II when they receive their letter, reeeiUe "
b; favor" ol him9 Is it a matter OF choic
ID with him whether he shall let them hav
le their letters or not? Must they approac
s. him hat in hand; like beggars asking ic
Id nickels, and, with due obsequiousness {
of air, await his gracious attention, thankful
o. they are not put of till the next day or I'll
-, next week P-LOuisUllle Courier. Journal.