Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — Impudence. [ARTICLE]

Impudence.

Postmaster-General Holt has decided against the distribution of “ incendiary” documents through the Post-Office of Virginia. This decision, though a dongerous one in itself,“and one that cannot be carried out, even partially, without violating the mails, was intended only for Virginia, and only to suit the present emergency. In that form it is well, though it can never work to any good end, should it be continued. But when the decision is made to apply to the whole country, giving the privilege to every little onehorse Postmaster of searching the mails for “incendiary” matter, it becomes high time that the decision should be limited in its action. We are led to these remarks by the impertinence of one of these same style of individuals of whom we have just spoken, the Postmaster of New Market, Middlesex County, New Jersey, who has issued a pronunciamento to the effect that for the future, he will deliver no Abolition documents, including Helper’s Crisis, from his office. Now, though we think his neighbors are much better oft’without such literature, yet do we strongly object to this constituting every ignorant Postmaster the judge of what he shall deliver and what he shall keep back. If it has come to this, no correspondence is safe, and the mails are a dead letter, to say nothing of the fact that the very means taken to stop this style of reading will be the very thing which will give it an impetus. N. Y. Atlas. {Democratic.) 0O”A justice who lately tried a lady in Cincinnati for cowhiding a gentleman, concluded his decision as follows: “If a man were to attempt to cowhide me, I would strike him dead even in the forum; but, if a woman were to attack me, I’m d—d if I know what I would do!”