The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-15
CHI A RI ES TON.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE Is, 1869.
Cuffee in the Postomce.

For some time the Charleston Postoffice e
has bean q coveted -lf2 nsTrrEc crd
other colcrco poI't'-;o-s not satisfied wjtb
the dignities SUI .,;.s s s, .1S's'fE sassraity
OF offices, have looKSI asrith t. longipg eve
upon the squat edifice with .oe Oor;c COL
umns, in which the letters of the Heges of
Charleston are delivered and received. The
policy of General Grant has been about
one third smoke and two thirds negro, and
there is no good reason why an ambitious
Radical South Carolina freedman shou ould not
desire to handle the postofice stamps. The
candidates have been encouraged by the
course Of events, and by way of throwing
a tub to the black whale, two of the white
postef6ce clerks are to be removed on July
lst, and two negroes appointed in their
stead.
Well! We have already negro jurors, and
negro constables, and negro police, and no
gro magistrates, and negro legislators; and
negro clerks in the postofice will not break
our backs. 1t will be unpleasant and dis
gusting; but while negroes make our laws,
and, as jurymen, dispose of our lives and
property, it will not kill us if they inspect
the outsides Of our 6ulets dou1 and scruti-
nize the queer monarchical stamps upon
the letters Of our foreign correspondents.
And in truth, as we cannot mend the mat
ter by invective or expostulation, we may
as well take things ooolly until the time
comes for the removal Of Cuffee to q more
oongenial place.
Postmaster Trott has been rather favor
ite in Charleston. No one doubted his Re
publicanism; but it was Of mild type and
did not lead him into any intimate political
or social communion with the colored Rad
icals. Mr.. Trott attended thoroughly to
his duties and has been . faithful and eff
cient officer. 1t is not likely, then, that
Mr.. Trott has been altogether free agent.
There has been outside pressure some
where, and the Postmaster may have had
to choose between colored subordinates and
the official guillotine.- This is our,view Of
tne SITUATION, anu we think tnHJ IL Is Jusu-
fed by the uniform responsibility Of Mr..
Trott's behavior. II he has now fallen
from grace, it is because he ie determined
to retain, if he can, profitable and com
Portable position.
It may not be considered necessary to q
proper vindication Of Radical principles,
that the colored men to be appointed shall
be the most ignorant and odorous Of their
race. The color Of the skin should be
enough to quiet the uneasy party spirit. II
30, pair Of oelored men may be put ia who
do know the difference between letter list
and an election ticket; and under any cir
cumstances, we presume that Mr.. Trott
will do all that he can to maintain the eff
cheney Of his department, and to keep his
new assistants as far in the background as
possible.
We should have liked to defer the change
until the cold weather, but white men have
no control in these things, and We must try
to worry through the next three years with
as little damage as possible. The appoint
ment Of the colored clerks is another notch
in the stick. When the proper moment
comes, it will not be forgotten.