Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-11-30

journalists must condemn it. We have
struggled long to lift the colOred man up ;
we cannot stand by seeing respectable
unoffending member Of our own race super
ciliously and tyrannically trodden down.
No public servant is so high that he shall
treat an American citizen in that manner,
be he ever so low. Secretary Boutwell,
must dispense with his Assistant. Such
things must not be allowed, or the people
will dispense with us all together.
made INDEPENDENTLY for the
continuance of my yitteous Indignation.
What aSere the fact? Simply that Mr..
Ware, a good, worthy man every other
way, well endowed, learned in the law,
liked and respected generally by all who
knew him, was given over to Incorporate
habits; had for long time been very IT.
regular in his attendance at the Office,
setting bad example to all the rest of
the office, especially to the less we'll paid
clerks. BY the system recently establish
ed of reporting time from the bureaus to
the Secretary's office Mr.. Wares irregu-
larity became known at Headquarters
The first month he was reported absent 9
days; the second 9 or so, and the third
month 5 on which last report it was de-
termined to dismiss him, Without regard
to his.petition. His sickness was caused
by his intemperanco The occurrence of
the dismissmal on the day the petition was
received was sheer coincidence. s lie
was an incorrigible offender He had been
talked with repeatedly. His pay wa.
stopped and he was dismissed in accord
ance with published regulations, an not
till after repeated violations of the rules
and long practical defiance Of the con-
sequences Clearly the regulations should
be enforced in such a case, if at ALL In
diligence unavoidable sickness is very
we'll; but few, believe, will contend that
a Department should be made an asylum
for inebriates. So much for Republican
tyranny
The President has promoted Rob't NJ
Douglas, son of the late Senator Stephen
A., from his asst private Sec'y to be his
private Secretary.
Mr.. Finney of Ohio, chief of a Division
Of the Bird Auditors office, Treasury Dep
a Trustee Of the Howard University, and
a leading member and high officer of a,
least three temperance societies here, ar
old and constant aboitionist-a brother
[ believe, of the Finney who was mur.
dered for the cause-and a prominent
churchmember, has recently been charged
by a woman upon her afhdavits with hav.
ing seduced her and having had repeated
Intercourse with her. Mr.. Finney hes q
wife, and at least one child grown up
Nobody, probably, would have given any
credence to the story, because the woman
condemns herself in volunteering to test.
fly that she had illicit intercourse with a
man known to her to be married, and in
allowing the matter to be published in the
papers, without any avowed object Oh
provocation save that he did not help tc
support her and her three children--chil.
dren by another man-werc it net for the
affcctionately couched letter published said
to be in his handwriting, and an entry in
hotel register in Alexandria of himself
and lady, under an assumed name, said tc
be identified also. Mr.. Finney unqualif.
eddy denies everything criminal He was,
unfortunately for himself a commiseratine
philanthropic friend to the woman. But
no letter that she publishes is published
as he wrote it. And he only asks sus.
pension of judgment until he has time to
r.futc the aTocious SANDER. Gen. o. o.
Howard and other friends retain their
confidence in Mr.. Finney's integrity, and
feel outraged. at newspapers lending its
columns to the publication of such ihfam,
Gus lies. J,E.