The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-03-01
For he Dsn.aerasie Adreeals.


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.EpIToRs on THE ADVOCATE Having
noticed some time since how the citizens
Of Sans Greek have been treated a. sre.
CARDS postal facilities at that place, il calls
forcibly to my mind the manner Of treat
ment We have undergone. II fthere Is any
department Of our government thar should
take precedence in doing the greatest good
to the greatest number of persons It cor.
tainly is the Postofice department. From
the following il may readily be seen how
well that department applies that prinei.
pie In the beginning Of the Grant Ad.
ministratiOn we had postoifce at Pataps-
co Station, W. NJ, R. r., distributing
mail TO some four hundred citizens, and
paying the government net sum Of $50
year. Now the trouble II this: Some
ofourpoliticaladversarie thinking we were
too highly favored, or, perhaps, to be wishing
more highly favored themselves, prevailed
upon the Posmaster-Gen and had the
Office moved to CaTollton, distance Of
three miles, and had the Office supplied by
way Of Westminster, carrying our mail
matter an unnecessary distance Of twelve
miles before it could reach Us. Again
having no set off for these disadvantages,
except that Of helping to make the dis.
tributing Office at Westminster frst-class
Office, with the cost Of an additional car
rier from thence to Carrollton, leaving us to
carry it back to our station again at our
own expense.
Now this state Of Affairs still continues,
notwithstanding we have repeatedly tried
to remedyour disadvantages. We applied
for new Office, and showed conclusiyely
the necessity for its creation; and also, in
consequence Of its being on the mail route
from Baltimore to Hagerstown, il would
not cost the government farthing, but
become source Of revenue. Some Of our
good christian friends, being without the
motto, Hdo unto others as we would they
should do unto us, saved the government
by Informing the Postmaster General That
we were not loyal In the meantime the
tirm at Patapsco changed hands, We re-
newed entreaties, offering for postmaster
one Of the deepest-dyed Radicals with
which the county is graced, thinking
thereby to remove all difficulties; but,
alas in the weakness Of our nature we
forgot that his partner, young man who
had never voted for President. was dis
loyal So we failed again but, having
learned that perseverance eonquen all
things, we adopted for our motto atry
again The firm having again changed,
and now being able to present to Mr..
Creswell, for his consideration, man who
had followed the blood-stained banner Of
Ulysses through the battles Of Spottsylva-
MIA, the Wilderness, and son to Rich
mond,' we had every reason to believe
success certain. Now we see the necessa-
ry papers being made out, preparatory to
the commission of our hero, but owing to
the bad habit Of sending postofice matter
through the mails unsealed, they travelled
50 slow that il took them three weeks to
reach us, so some Of our well-wishers found
out IN the interim that our hero had be-
come disieyak
Shall we despair? / think not; the
darkest hour is just before day, and /
think ! see the prospect of psstofice in
early spring. The firm goes into other
hands soon, and as selfinterest has had
more to do with it than principle, perhaps
Mr. Creswell can be made to see that the
one hundred news journals, the thousand
and one letters, with the miscellaneous
matter centering at this point, win entitle
US to post-ofice, and with the elements
Of opposition neutralized in our favor, can
we fail? A SusscRrnrR
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