The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-02-03
NtW Fork Correspondence
New Yonk. Feb. /. 1874


Somebody, kLow not who, OF on what occasion
he said it, ayowed in moment of excitement that he
woud like to roll back the tide Of time for thou
sand years, that he might behold two things namely
Cesar amid his uiumphs in, The Eternal City, and
ST. Paul. in thu. pulpit at Rome. do not know that
this is exactly what The said but be this as il
may oppressed by the desire of any such e1or-
btant ambition. have lived TO see Mr. John Gossin
throw one hundred and ten somerscts, in "Tynn's
Independent Amphhheare,' and TO learn that Mr.
Lysandcr Spooner and Governor Dorr have flourish
ed and put in The shade the lusne OF Jack Cadc.--
That is enough for me- and have desire to gaze at
the Promised Land, from Mount Pssnh.
Lysander Spooner is now the lord of the ascendant
md issues mis- manesiots after the fashion Of the Au
lpcrat Of the Russas and Doctor Francis the defunct
Dictator Of Paraguay.
Tie New York Commercial Advertiser Of yester-
day contained the following ukasc, from Lysander
Spoonnrs PEG, and in sublimiiy aud Importance, it
rivals every thing Of the kind that has been given to the
world-to coin an elegant expression from Colonel
Benton-snce the days of Queen Anne and Sir
Roten Waipolc. And here you have it.
AMERICAN Posr OiFIcE,
New York, January ~, 1914.
have seen TO day, for the first time, rumors in
two of the Baltlmoc papers (the Patriot and Ameri-
can) Of Friday last, that of the carriers Of the
American Letter Mail Company, between this city
and Phladephis had been stopped by agent Of the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Company.
This rumor is utterly untrue. Our carriers be-
tween this city and Philadelphia have passed over
the road four times every day, except Sunday, since
Tuesday last, which was the day of our starting and
In no instance has one OF them been stopped. And
think the public ought to presume that the propre-
tors of that road, and all Others understand too well
the law and the rights Of passengers, TO assume Tho
responsibility OF stopping passenger, without legal
process, merely to crafty the Post Office Depart
ment when the Department itself has yet chosen
to accept the issue We have rendered To test
ing the constitutionality of the Post Office laws
is also somewhat unreasonable to suppose that the
railroad corporation would do high handed and H.
legal an act for the sake Of getting rid Of passengers
who paying them fare nj the rate Of five thou
sand dollars year.
Whether the Letter Mail Company are violating
any constitutional law, is question between our
selves and the Post Office Department and not be-
tween and the RAILROADS. No candid man can be-
iieve that the mail company suppose tney acting
in violation Of law. What they do is not done
done in a corner. They lave published the legal
grounds which they stand and anxious TO have
them known and read of all men. They think they
are contending for great principle Of civilization,
economy, liberty, and law. Whether this principle
shall be su tanned with the public aud the eg
tribunals, and not With any railroad agent, az any
such there be, which do not believe who may be
ready to espouse the OF the Department, by
means OF fragrant violation of law.
Respectfully, yours
l.. S. Will the Baltimore Patriot and American
please copy
This manifesto il will Ike perceived, is issued by the
Letter Mail Company" very heavy and important
concern and 1t is the from the fact that the
iIlus,rous Lysander Spoonsr Is President, Directors
Stockholders, and Secretary, OF tina, modern South
Sea aud Mississippi scheme for delraudrg the public
revenue and violating the laws.
Mr. Lys ander Spooner, presume, is lawyer, and
is that there is such thing msprsion of fe-
lony; and fhe has rrad all the books from SelJen,
PuGendoif, and Lord Coke, and the rest down 10
"Lovc ON Water Courses he may know, fittings lie
tortured, such thing sprision of misdcmcanor
though the offence may be called by another name
And lawyer he is supposed 10 he, think he ought
to be OF the fact that if any railroad company
assists him, by loaning him the of their engines
and cars, 10 defrsud The revenue, such Company is
accessory 10 the deed before the fact.
Be this as il may, il may be useful to give 10 the
renowned Lysander title episode from history. In
the year 1885, whilst Mr. Amos Kendall was Post.
master, the Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia
Railroad Company demanded a most cxorbitan, price
for transporting the mailsa price that the Posimas
ter General forbidden TO pay by an act of Con-
gross. The consequence was a suspension of the
mails between Washington and Phadephi or they
were to be carried by the roundslou, way Of Yoit
Pennsylvania,) by stages.
The affair created great difficulty, and the Post
master General abused by the press for com
plying with the demands Of the Railroad Company,
and paying price that he forbidden to pay
To overcome the difficulty and expedite the mails,
Mr. Kendall employed special agent, who was pro-
vidcd with two long black leather trunks into which
the letters for Philadelphia, New York and Boston
were deposited. These trunks the agent or carrier,
called his luggage, and Tor days he passed over
the road unmoles,ed. But, when it was discovered
that the long black leather trunks contained let
tiers, the Directors Of the Rail Road decided tina,
they were not "luggage,n but mails, !" and fnali,
elected the agent and his trunks from their cars.
am no, goiog TO argue the point with so profound
jurist as Mr. Lyssnlcr Spooner; but ! mean 10
say, that il the Baltimore, Washington and Phade.
phia Rail Road Company had right 10 stop Mr.
Postmaster General Kendslls carrier and mails the,
! have a right TO stop the carr er and mails OF Mr.
Postmaster General Lysander 8 ooner. Aud further
| than this at this time Of writing ] have nothing "a
add.
| ID day or two, all the present ice bound channels
| ot commerce will be opened Yours, &c, r.
SUPREME COURT UNITED STATES.
! SATURDAY February 3, 1874.