Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-03
MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1926.
Post Office, alexandria, d. c
April /, 1926.

Gtntlemen-A prevailing mlsapprehensioi
in relation to the subject embraced in the fol
lowing clause of the Post Office Law, ,chich TN
obligations of my oath bind me 10 enforce, makes II
desirable that my duties on this point should
be better understood.
With view to this object, therefore, l re-
quest that you will be SO pbligiug as 20 transfer
the annexed article to the columns Of the Ga
'zette. Very respectfully, your obd't. serv't
DANIEL BRYAN.
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ter, or other thing, or any memorandum In wri-
ting, in newspaper, pamphlet, or magazine,
or in any package of newspapers, pamphlets, or
magazines or make any writing or memoran-
dunn thereon, which he shall have delivered in
to any Post Office, or to any person for that
purpose, in order that the same may be carried
by post, free Of letter postage, he shall forfeit
the sum of five dollars for every such offence;
and the letter newspaper, package, memoran-
dunn, or other thing, shall not be delivered to
the person to whom it is directed, until the "a
mount Of single letter postage is paid for each
article Of which the package is composed.
See Post-Office Law, Sec. so.
ident otthe u States ofthe 3oid uH.
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Extracts from the general Instructions Of Mr.
Clay, Secretary OF State, TO Mr.. Poinsett, APP
pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary TO Mexico, dated
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON,
25M March, 1925.
The mission on which the President wishes
you with all practicable despatch to depart,
would at any time be highly important but pos
sesses at this moment peculiar interest Eve
ry where on this Continent, but the side Of
: the United Mexican States, the Y. States are
touched by the colonial territories Of some SOW
ereign authority fixed in Europe. You are the
first Minister actually leaving the United States
TO reside near a sovereign power established
and exerted on this Continent whose terrific
ries are conierminous with our own. You will
probably be the first Minister received by that
power from any sovereign State, except from
those which have recently sprung out Of Span
ish America. The United Mexican States,
whether we regard their present posture, or
recall TO our recollection their ancient history *
for times, are entitled to nigh consideration In
point Of population, position, and resources,
they must be allowed 70 rank among the first
powers of America. In contemplating the pro-
eress in them towards civilization, which the
aborigines had made at the epoch OF the Span
ish invasion, and the incidents connected with
the Spanish conquest which ensued, an ire
sistable interest is excited, which is not surpas-
SD, if it be equalled, by that which is awaken
ed in perusing the early history OF any other
part Of America. But what. gives, with the
President, to your mission peculiar Importance
at this time, is, that il has for its principal OBJ
n C., o. al, ~
an intercourse of amity, commerce, navigation,
and neighborhood, which may exert a power
full influence for long period upon the pros
perity of both States.
In more particularly inviting your attention
to the objects which should engage it on your
mission, will in the first place refer you to the
general instructions which were given by my
predecessor, on ,he 9th May, 1898, to Mr.. An
derson, the Minister Of the United States a, CO.
lombia, Of which copy is annexed, and which
are to be considered as incorporated in them.
So far as they are applicable alike to the con-
dition Of Colombia and Mexico, and shall not
be varied in this or subsequent letters, you will
view them as forming a guide for your con-
duct, In thai letter of the 9th May, the prin-
ciples which have regulated the course OF this
government in respect TO The contest between
Spanish America and Spain, from its origin, are
clearly stated, explained, and indicated, and
the bases of those upon which it is desirable to
place the future intercourse between the U. s.
and the several governments which have been
established in Spanish America, are laid down
So that although that letter was intended to fur
nish instructions for the American Minister
deputed to one Of those governments only, it
should be contemplated as unfolding system
OF relations which it is expedient to establish
with all OF them. From that letter, as well as
from notorious public facts, it clearly appears
that the people and the government of the U.
States have alike, throughout all the stages of
the struggle between Spain and her former
colonies, cherished the warmest feelings and
the strongest sympathies towards the latter.
That the establishment of their independence
and freedom has been anxiously desired, that
the recognition of that independence was made
as early as it was possible, consistently with
those Just considerations of policy and duty
which this government felt itself bound to en-