. A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector . n to theFirst Assistant Postmaster General at once, as my ser-vices had been discontinued. I went up to Washingtonthat night and tendered my commission and post-officekeys to the First Assistant. The Special Agents atthat time, as are the Inspectors at present, were giventhe keys of all the different mail locks in use. I wasunable to find
. A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector . n to theFirst Assistant Postmaster General at once, as my ser-vices had been discontinued. I went up to Washingtonthat night and tendered my commission and post-officekeys to the First Assistant. The Special Agents atthat time, as are the Inspectors at present, were giventhe keys of all the different mail locks in use. I wasunable to find out why I had been removed, until Iwent to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, W. McLellan, one of the finest old gentlemenI ever knew, and asked him if he knew about it. Oh, yes, I know something about it, he said. What do you go around making speeches for in Vir-ginia against the administration? I thought better ofyou than that. I never made a speech in my life, I replied. Never tried to talk on my feet at all. Could nt makea speech if I wanted to, and dont want to make aspeech. What do you mean ? Why, he answered, did nt you make thisspeech ? and he handed me clippings from a news-paper published at Woodstock, Virginia, which President Chester A. Arthur THE NBW YOUK PUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR, LE\©X ANDT/LSEN FOUNOATIONS, RECOLLECTIONS OF PUBLIC MEN 287 Porter, the Post-Office Agent for this State, thendehvered the following incendiary harangue. Iglanced down a few lines and saw that he uttered themild sentiment that Andrew Johnson ought to be hungas high as Haman. I saw the mistake at once. Therewas a politician named Charles H. Porter, extremelyradical, not in general favor with white Republicans inthe State, who was making extreme speeches, and thenewspaper had confounded him with me. Just thenthe Postmaster General, A. W. Randall, who had ap-parently overheard some of our conversation, steppedin and offered me his hand. Well, how s the great American ra
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