He didn't travel to his post in Central City from Denver until 1862 and immediately proved unpopular there, with citizens petitioning the government for his removal.
Of Armour, the newspaper wrote: This man, with a full knowledge of the law and constitution, has nevertheless so far yielded to that love of meanness which has always disgraced his character, and which has rendered him a moral and social stench wherever he is known, as to utterly refuse to register any one unless he votes the Radical ticket.
And, in order to drive away all others has invented a system of badgering, brow-beating and overbearing conduct, of which the vilest man on earth should feel ashamed.
[5]In 1868, he was reported as being one of the speakers at a Radical convention in Pennsylvania, delivering a speech that was "full of abuse and brag", and "seemed to be boiling over with rage towards the Copperheads".
[6] Armour died following a sudden stroke in October 1903,[7] and is buried in Saint Paul's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Leitersburg, Maryland.