A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TW O-PENNY POSTMASTERS. From the Evening Post, August 15, 1835.] We give below the correspondence of one of the twopenny postmasters who think with Mr. Kendall, that they owe a higher obligation to the community in which they live than to the laws; or, in other words, that it is of more consequence to play...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TW O-PENNY POSTMASTERS. From the Evening Post, August 15, 1835.] We give below the correspondence of one of the twopenny postmasters who think with Mr. Kendall, that they owe a higher obligation to the community in which they live than to the laws; or, in other words, that it is of more consequence to play amiable to the south and truckle to its arrogant pretensions, than to obey their oath of office and perform the solemn duties of their station. We may expect to see many patriots now, in quarters which have not been suspected of abounding with patriotism; since, according to the doctrines of the Postmaster General, all that is required to constitute one a Sydney or a Hampden is to nullify the laws. We were aware that nullification never had any terrors for Mr. Gouverneur, and he has made this obvious enough now by the extraordinary eagerness he has manifested to play the nullifier and foist himself before the community in that character. We cannot, of course, suspect so pure a man of any intention in this matter of creating a southern interest in his favour, and of obtain, ing southern influence to strengthen the feeble tenure by which he is said to hold his office. He is quite disinte. rested in the course, no doubt He pursues it solely be. cause it is pointed out by duty; because it is incumbent on patriotism to disobey the laws. We must pause here, lest Mr. Gouverneur's patriotism should next object to our own journal, and cause him to take the responsibility of refusing to forward it by mail. Should he do Bo, however, we promise to bring his patriotism to the touchstone of the laws, and give him an opportunity of ascertaining whether a New-York jury approve this new species of nullification, which erects every hot-headed and internperate postmaster into a Censo...