The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-08-24
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The Chorpenning Claim and the Post
Office Department..

On our first page we publish speech of
Michigan, which is clear vindication of
his administration of the Post Office de-
partment and triumphant reply to the
numberless ISLANDERS propagated by the
enemies Of the country and President
Grants administration, from high officials
down to the petty village whippersnapper.
Ex-Governor Blair, of Michigan having
placed a thousand miles between the Post
master General and himself proceeds to
retail the lies which had been handed
round since the Chorpenning business had
its first sensation, in revised and exag-
gerated edition. Mr.. Creswell did not
allow his ISLANDERS to 60 uncontradicted,
but followed the cowardly libeller to his
home, and proved him before his neigh
bors and constituents to be the basest of
falsifiers. The speech is long, but will
well repay perusal by every one who wish
es to understand all about this Chorpenn-
ing claim, concerning which so much has
been said by people who know so little about
the matter. 1t has been prolific theme
for the low grade slanderers of Elkton,
who make virtue of hating Mr.. Creswell,
solely for the reason, as everybody knows,
of their immense distance beneath him in
the public estimation. Charges We're al
legged by the enemies of the Republican
party and President Grants administra-
ton, and creatures snvious of the Post
master Generals we'll earned reputation,
that changes, which were made by him on
assuming the direction of the Post Office
Department, had been made with a view
to managing this Cnorpenning business,
when the facts in the case are that all the
changes charged to this motive were made
before Mr.. Creswell knew anything about
Chorpenning and his claims, and solely
with view to effect more efficient SER
vice in the Post Office Department, and
the wisdom of those changes is abundantly
proven by the figures given in this branch
of the government, in the speech published
on our first page, which contrasts the years
of 1868 and 1871, and shows what economy
has been practiced in the expenditures ne
cessary to conduct this important branch
of the government.
Any one who reads this clear expose of
the Chorpenning business and is after
wards heard publishing the current SLAM
ders about the affair, may be justly con-
demned in the language of uncle Horace as
a liar, knave and scoundrel."
The following in reference to the matter
is from the Washington Chronicle:
"The New York Tribune and its echoes
are still harping about this claim and the
Postmaster Generals connection with it.
1t is only necessary to allude to two facts.
The first is that the claim has not been
paid, not dollar of it, and therefore there
has been no loss. The second is that when
this charge of colluding at fraud was
brought against him, Mr.. Ereswell demand
ed an investigation. That investigation
was had. Two Democrats-prominen
Democrats-were on the committee
Frank Blair was one of them. That COM
mittee unanimously declared that Mr.. Cres-
we'll had acted bonorably and honestly, as
in duty bound. Now, did they lie? Were
these Democrats, as we'll as Republicans,
acting under the solemn responsibility of
an oath, attempting to cover up and screen
knavery? That is the meaning of the
Irabune's declaration, if they mean any
thing. 1t has come to pretty pass when
MIR. Greeley's own paper charges his own
friends and supporters as well as Republi-
cans in Congress with dishonesty, in order
to give force to a thrice -refuted SANDER
against a high official of the nation.'