Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-03-13


any Post road for Post Coach service upon IT,
thereby incidentally aiding in the establishment
and maintenance Of travelling lines. That
much the Department is ready TO do on
this line. But, if the people upon the line
expect the Department to do more Ill
they expec, 1t to maintain Post Coaches on
tie line, cost whatit may, when they are not
! needed for the conveyance Of the mail, they
expect it 10 transcend its legal au horty and
! to furnish carriages for the accommodation Of
! travellers, not at their own expense, but by
tax on the people.
! They have right to ask, that whatever The
Department is justified in giving for the con-
ueyance of the mail, shall be given towards sus.
! tanning line of Post Coaches and Htat the
Department is now, and ever has been, willing
to grant. But it may we'll be left to their owl
sober reflection to say whether the Depart.
mcnt ought to maintain a Post Coach line
not for the mail, but for The accommodation Ct
| travellers if half the means 10 support it must
be drawn from other sections of the country.
| Would they think it right, that half the
p,stages they pay, should be applied 10 keep
up lines of Post Coaches in Massachusetts, or
Louisiana. not for the conveyance Of the mails,
but, for the people of those States to ride in!
But there is no danger Of the withdrawal OF
Post Coaches from this line, unless it be fx
short time. The propr"tors of the line now
running from Raleigh 10 Fayetteville have
directly informed the Department that they
shall continue to run that line mail or no mail
They have even declined pledging themselves
that they will not run in Opposition 10 mail
line in Post Coaches OF the same roads. The
Department has ALSO been informed upon
undoubicd authority, that the line will be con-
tinued to Columbia in Post Coac!es. The
people will not, therefore. be deprived long, II
at all, of Coach line. And, cannot this line
which will be ruin, mail or 10 mail, afford to
car,y small mai! cheaper than large one
Ifit can run without mail pay, can it not run
more proftably with it If it can run with
no NAL pay at all, can it not run more proi'a-
bly, with a reasonable mai! pay! lift could
carry halfa ton Of mail at SS2 per mile, can IL
moi carry hundred pounds at $50! The
Department is willing to i've this line the
highest mail pay which can properly be applied
70 the route ; but it has little expectation OF
beino able to establish Post Coach Inc in
opposition to it. It is hoped that the mattel
may be adjusted satisfactorily to the people or
the line, when the proposals under the new
advertisement are acted on AT any rate, The
/ Department has no desire, and can have noae
to deprive them of any convenience they have
enjoyed; and is now, as it always will be-
ready to apply the mail pay in aid OF travel
ling line of Post Coaches, by whomsocrer con-
Quoted. It objects only TO the increase Of that
pay beyond what can be properly applied 10
transportation Of the mail on that route.
This statement is made by authority Of
the Department. which holds itself bound in
every proper manner to administer 10 the con.
vcnienee and comfort Of the people, and is ever
anxious when il cannot do all they desire, to
satisfy them that it is not from Indifference e
their interests or to their good opinions.
26:h February, 1889.