The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-28
TWO PnTTRES.


a fair sample of the reformed civil ser
vice which they would establish if en-
trusted with national power. In order
to show how radical reform has been
brought about in the post Office OF the
House of Representatives, we give the
employees of the post office under the
Forty-third Congress, Republican, and
the ones now employed under the Dem
ocratic Forty fourth. They form two
interesting pictures for loyal eyes:
POST OFFICE EMPLOYERS FORTY THIRD
CONGRESS.
Henry Sherwood, Postmaster, entered
the service in, we believe, the Second
Michigan Cavalry, early in the war. He
was in all the battles in the West, from
PerrysvilIe to the battle of Kenesaw
mountain, in 1864, and lost leg III the
fight at Lattimer's Mill, on the left of
kenesaw.
Joseph F. Wilson, Assistant Postnlas-
ter, entered the service from Illinois, and
lower jaw entirely shot away.
Francis A Wardell entered the service
in 1861, in Massachusetts, regiment, and
was totally disabled by wounds received
at the battle of Winchester. Virginia,
September 10, 1864.
J. H. Paine entered the army from
Ohio, and served honorably during the
war.
r. S. Bishop served in Michigan reg
iment during the war, and had his arm
shot away by rebel bullet.
r. S. McMichael, while in service in
Wisconsin regiment, nearly lost his eye
sight in the honorable discharge of his
duty.
Norman Crane, of Vermont, was not
in the army, but furnished the service
with two substitutes.
ID. B. Brady enlisted in a Wisconsin
regiment ip 1861, and was honorably
discharged in November, 1864.
A. NJ. Legg, from New York, served
during the war in our navy.
C. N. Thomas, Iowa; ]. II. Lytle and
w. b. Sessions, New York; J. ID. Serum
and d. F. Bishop, Pennsylvania, and
Cripti Palmoni, District of Columbia,
were appointed from civil life.
POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES FORTY FOURTH
CONGRESS.
James NJ. Stewart, Postmaster, from
Virginia, was captain in the rebel army,
and served with J. E. B. Stuart's rail-
ing cavalry.
Edgar Snowden, Assistant Postmaster,
from Virginia, was apress correspondent
in the rebel army.
G. w. Rock, Va. served in the rebel
army.
CIV. Kennedy, Va, served i'll the rebel
army.
A. W. C. Nowling, Va, served in the
rebel army.
w. H. Robertson, Va, served in the
rebel army.
J. r. Fisher, Va, served in the rebel
army.
w. b. Lowry, Va, served in the rebel
army.
&c, Glass, Va, served in the rebel
army.
The other employees are Richard AL
len, Virginia; Edwin Estes, New York,
who took the modified oath; Thomas B.
Kelly, Tennessee; i. s. Goodsell, Con-
necticut, James NJ. Taylor, Pennsylva-
MIA, and William fudge, are old employ
ees retained.
These are not only interesting, but
startling picnures.
What sad commentary these pictures
present. Patriotism and loyalty, as re-
presented in the persons of thess manned
heroes, dragged down, trampied upon,
and degraded; their bitterly earned re-
ward taken from them, and in their pla-
ces treason and rebellion elevated and
rewarded; endowed by a Democratic
House of Representatives, with the pat
ronage and power of the Government
And a like picture can be drawn from
every department to which the power of
the House reaches.
Do not these facts foreshadow as great
danger to the Republic as that which
arose from the subserviency of the Dem
ocratic party in the days of Buchanan?
Do they not prove that that party is to-
day still the plant, subservient tool of
that power in the South which has al
ways dominated over it, and which, act
ing upon the advice of JEFF. Davis, is
attempting to accomplish through the
ballot box in the Union what they failed
by secession to establish at tie point of
the bayonet in the field?