Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-22

with the managers OF all the railroads on the line
whether finished not with view TO ascertain whether
any reasonable arrangements could be made with them,
present prospective, for the conveyance Of this inn
potant mail Although the agent performed the service
with distinguished zeal and ability his efforts al
most wholly iruitless.
The company owning the railroad between Washing
aud Baltimore, demanded $4,000 about $3.50
per MILE merely haul daily mail from depot To- de-
pot without other responsibility, and $d OOJ For two
daily mails.
The companies owning the several rail roads con-
sructing from Baltimore to Philadelphia, demanded
900, or upwards of $3.50 per mle to haul ono daily
mail from city to city.
The company owning the Camden and Amboy road,
demanded $4,000, $500 per mile, for one daily
mail, and $50, 900 for n second.
The companies composing the upper line through New
Jersey, demanded 1913 Goo about $3.50 per mile for
the conveyance of one daily mall and $4,000 for
cond
Aware tia, the Committee on Post Offices and Pos;
Roads of the House of Representatives had had the sub
)ect me transportation OF the mails on rail roads, I'M
der consideration the last session. and had unanimous
ly proposed to restrict the Department seventy five
dollars per mile for tho services und moreover consi
derng the sums demanded disproportionate 10 the
vice, and wholly unreasonable the undersigned deter
mined not 10 accept any of the propositions To leave
unessaycd however TO form satisfactory ar
rangencnt. he offered contract for merely hauling
box containing the mall from depot to depot, daily TO
the Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, a,
SiOo per milc, which they promptly declined.
The undersigned does notntend pay the prices de-
manded by these companies, unless directed do by
those who have fight To control him. He will
put post Coaches OF maii.wagons the old roads and
run them there until public opinion, the voice Of
perior authority induces the associations which have
been permitted to monopoize the of speedy
veyonce these routes to abae in their terms TO ena-
bie you to present the whole subject tho legislative
body copy of the instructions the agent and his cor.
responsiveness with the companies and the subsequent,
correspondence OF the Department with them here
with submitted.
The undersigned is happy to state that indications of
spirit more in accordance with the great object of pub
lie accommodation, which has induced the Legislatures
OF the States to sanction the construction of these i'm
provemen's by private companies, have manifested them
selves i'll other quarters The Boston and Providence
Railroad Company have minated willingness car
ry two daily mails between those cities, embracing the
the New York steamboat mail, for $4,000 year being at
the rate of about S25 per mile for single mail, and
contract has been authorized
The New Jersey Rail. Company whose road
when completed, will extend from Jersey City TO New
brunswick, have offered to carry the great mail from N.
ork along their road year at 500 per mile four
years at SSloO, and to carry two mails for 5000
The company owning the Portsmouth and Roanoke
road, have contracted TO carry tho mail three times
week, from Norfolk Halifax, n. c., distance of
ninety miles for the compensation paid the former
tractor which is equal TO about 26 per mile the ma
to be conveyed on their railroad far completed
The Tuscunibia, Courtland, and Decatur Rail Road
Company, have offered TO carry the mall three times
week, on their road, at the lowest of post-coach
transportation in the Southern States which amounts to
about $40 per mile.
IT is conceded that the mails carried ON all these roads
except the New Jersey road, much less than the
great mail between Washington and New York; but
they probably bear greater proportion To that mail than
the compensation asked for tile former service docs TO
that Offered by the Department for the latter
referring 10 the instructions given his Agent for
Rail
the undersigned submits the question your disposition
and Will await the instructions CONGRESS as to the
course hereafter TO be pursued with these companies and
other monopolies of like character in contracting with
which the Department is unable to avail itself of the
spirit of moderation supernduced by an active eompc,
ton, Indeed the Post Office law so far as il relates 10
the advertising and making of contracts is predicatcd up
pom the expectation that there would be general conpe
on Tor Them and does not provide for where the
Department has TO deal with monopoes no such state of
things having then been anticipated
new question has arisen in the administration of
this department number of individuals have esab-
ished an association ia the Northern and Eastern States
and raised large of money for the purpose of eff
tecting the immediate abolition of Slavery in the South
ern States One of the resored has been the
printing OF large mass of newspapers pamphlets tracts
and aimanacs containing exaggerated and in some in
stances, false OF the Treatment of slaves Illus
trated with cuts calculated operate passions of
the colored men, and produce discomfort assassination
and servile war These they attempted 10 dsseminat ~
throughout the save-holdng States, by the agency of
The public mails
As as ascertained that the mails contained
these productions great excitement arose particularly
in Charleston, S c. and to ensure The safety of the mail
in its progress Southwark the Postmaster al that place
agreed to retain them in his Office until he could obtain
instructions from the Postmaster General In reply
his appeal he Informed, that it was subject upon
which the Postmaster General had legal authority TO
instruct HIM The question again up from the
Postmaster at New York, who had refused to send the
papers by the steamboat mail TO Charleston S c. He
also answered. that the raj nossess
ed no legal authority TO give instructions the subject
but as the undersigned had doubt that the circustan
ces OF the case justified tile detention of the papers, he
volved in this question: and il merits the grave consde
ration OF all departments of the Government.
~ Is universally conceded, that States united
only Tor certain purposes There interests res-
ton to which they believed be MS indepe ndcnt of
each other as they before the Constitution was
formed. The interest which the people of some of the
states have in slaves, is Of them No State oh.
tanned by the UnoE any right whatsoever over slavery
IN any other State, did any State lose any of its
power over it, within its borders. On this subject
therefore, 1t this view be correct the States still in
dependent, and may fence round and protect their ine
rest IN slaves by such laws and regulations their
sovereign will they may deem expedicnt.
Nor have the people Of one State any right 10 in
ercrr with this subject in another State than they have
to Interfere with the internal regulations, tights proper
ty, domestic police, Of foreign nation. lrthey
were TO combine and send papers among the laborinT
population OF another nation calculated to produce dis
content and rebellion, their conduct would be rood
ground OF compliant on the part of that nation and.
IN case II were not repressed by the United States
might be, If perseveringy persisted in Just Of
war The mutual obligations of several States 10
suppress attacks by their citizens each others re-
served rights and Interests would Seem to be greater
lost the right of redress which belongs 20 nations
wholly independent. Whatever claim may be sol uu
or maintained, 70 right OF free discussion within their
own borders, Of the institutions and laws Of other COM
nuniiics, which They have righlfui control few
VIII MAINTAIN that they have right unless ii be obtain
ed by compact or treaty, 10 carry such discussions
within those communities, either orally or by The dsri.
button OF printed papers, particularly If be violation
OF their peculiar laws and the hazard Of their peace
and existence The Constitution Of the United States
provides, that the citizens Of each State shall be cnf
ted 10 all privileges and immuntes of citizens in the
several States but this clause cannot confer on the c
tzenS Of one state higher privileges and lnmunities in