The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-06

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recommends that all tEour efforts should be di-
recled,n although he has not designated the il;
dividual on individuals, otherwise than as those
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From he Portland *aygass,
S4s:.# Posi- OFFICE DEPAIT AiEsNF.
publish to-day the circular OF the Hcstmaster
General to the owners Of railroads and steamboats,.
The New York Evening Post, always able and can
did, and generally correct, in article commenting
on and disappearing the ground taken y Mr.. Wick
! life closes with the following paragraph:
g Meantime we do not regret to the circular OF
The Post Office Department This question should
be brought TO an issue, and we care not how soon
There doubt in minds to what the result
will be. Something better suited to the wants of the
people than Government post Office will grow out
of it, The Government may keep IFS machinery for
sending dispatches if it chooses but in the thicky
settled parts of the country, and with the new acl-
ties for rapid conveyance, we shall have something
expeditions, more exact, more safe, and more
dependent upon It's own good management for the
favor of the public, than Government post Office"
We do not agree with the Post that there can be
any thing better suited to the wants of the people
than Government post Office There may be, and
doubtless is something better suited to the wants Of
the people, the thicky settled parts Of the country,
than the present Government post office, and that
something is the system of private expresses that has
grown up within the last ten years But the Govern
nlent post Office may be, and we hope will soon be,
adapted to the wants (the necessities in fact of the
commercial public, growing out of railroad and
steamboat communication. But this will never take
place till the post Office laws rigidly executed
We, in common with our brethren Of the press at all
the principal commercial points in the country in the
present state Of things, should be greatly benefited if
we could send out letters and papers achen and by
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taken by the Postmaster General in his circular and
hope he will not hesitate in the course he has adopted
He is EXECUTIVE officer and it his duty TO ere
cute the laws, let who will be injured or benefited
If post office laws better adapted to the present condi
ton OF the country, can be made Gas they certainly
can be) the execution of those now existing will lead
to their enactment
The Constitution gives to the Government mo-
nopoly Of the war-making power, the power to tax
| foreign commerce, Of coming money, and to estab
lish post offices, post roads, &c. and all this for the
generalgood. These, and the other powers bestowed
upon the General Government, are essential to oul
national existence. The laws passed in accordance
with the Constitution may not always be the BEST ano
those that the best al time, and under certain
circumstances, may operate badly at another anC
ton. The present Post Office laws should be modi
fed not abolished. The Government should carry
letters and papers cheaper, sar and expeditions
ly than they can be carried by any private company
aDu having power fnOnOpOllZe, could easily
do il. Let the postage medium sized newspapers
be reduced TO one half OF cent for any distance
within the State in which they printed, and one
cent for any distance over one hundred miles anC
out Of the State, and all other periodicals in the
proportion. Let all irregular or single newspa per-
be subjected 10 three or four times this tariff Lee
the postage on all single letters, be reduced to three
cents for any distance short Of fifty miles and sil
cents for any distance fifty miles ard under on,
hundred miles, and TO ten cents for any distance
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fifteen cents for any greater distance Rates Of post
ages somewhere in the immediate neighborhood o
these prices, would, we believe, put end 10 Snug
CLING, and yield much better revenue than those
now levied.
Government expresses, under the supervision Of
first rate business men, (bavng interest by the al
lowance of per cenage in addition to their regular
salaries on the amount of business done) should be
employed in connection with the transportation OF
the mails and the Post Offices on all the great tho
roughiares oil the nation The energy Of private en-
terprise thus associated with the government mono
poly would soon put down all private competition in
the transportation Of " mail natter" on all short
routes, with as much ease il is now done between
Maine and Arkansas
We have observed that the Journal Of Commerce
for some years past has advocated free trade in the
transportation Of letters, papers, sc. We hope the
Journal and Post will not 90 far to carry their
free trade principles into the coming Of money! &c Sc
rlously we hope our good friends IN New York will
90 for reform, and not for destruction. How wall
they communicate with the vast interior alter they
have succeeded in combining the Government 10 its
machinery for sending despaches" How will they
send their papers and letters 10 the extremes of this
vast country at an expense merely nominal after their
private expresses shall have been put into operation
"in the hcky settled parts Of the country, and the
Post Office Department, except for government pur-
poses, abolished We hope our New York frien, $
will not insist upon killing the goose that lays the
golden eggs