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thiknoIlt;tftiSbOiefo(a8ca:are seeking ligbt and information, anahoping that you may be able to clear the mist from before our mental vision, we propound the query: There has been a petition circulated here for signatures, addressed to Hugh M’Cullcngh, Sec. U. S. Treasury, asking the removal of ono James G. Parker, ttoro keeper at the distillery in Shelbyvillo, and the appointment of David Louden in his stead. The petition goes on to say :— “In order to secure the faithful payment of Internal aRevenne Tax on whisky, ask the removal of James G. Parker as such store keeper and the appointment of David Louden, a gentleman of unimpeachable integrity in his place.”Now we are not disposed to impeach the integrity of Mr. Louden, in the least, for we know him to bo a gentleman and a sound Democrat, who has twice received the endorsement of the Democracy of Shelby county. But we don’t understand the maneanvre—there seems to be something back of all this. In fact it is as much as implied that a regular system of fraud on the Revenue has been practiced, and appears to be well known to the drawer of the petition.— Are the District officers and their assistants aware of these frauds having been committed ? Do they wink at them ? * Are they confederates and sharers in the spoils ? Certainly as imich as this is implied in the petition. Can yon give us light ? Wo would like to befriend Mr, Louden by giving him theuso of our names, but are loth to put them to a petition of this kind, in which a gentleman, a stranger to us, and for what we know the soul of honor, is indirectly charged with conniving in defrauding the Government. SEEKER.ilStlfsPbPtitliaI1'bti8r«aI•£3TDon Piatt, a loading and inflncn-tial Ohio radical, says, in a recently published letter, that General Grant can’t go into the presidency with his
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Shelbyville National Volunteer
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1868
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