The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-19

line Of service were established on that great route"
Merchants and other OF business 10 insure regqaT
" and expedition, send and receive Their letters and pa
pers BY private hands Nothing is more common Than
Tor editors oil newspapers along the Mississlppi--and
particularly al New Oneans-o acknowledge The receipt
Of letters and papers by private hand Two days IN al
Since made thai statement, have received commu
nicalion from an editor, who is OF the most nie
gent and reliable IN the Mississippi valley, in which
ne says:
.From the debate the Senate which you sent me, and
which shall publish, rejoice 10 thai you understand
Tie subject thoroughly. begin TO have hopes that
.hat ultimately succeed in getting mail suppose
Congress Il is pretty clear, think that the OF pres
deniial election hopeless time Tor such great reform
reasonable aud proper in itself thai it would be doing Con
Rres nuseoio believe il can be ageat while before they
viii permit IL % be contaminated"
'sYou estimate the proportion of matter which passes
through the mails one-ienth OF the whole which
aud received along great river am satisfied, from
long and careful observation and nqnry that not
than twentieth part pays postage "A part Of that which
goes by private conveyance, might go through the
ina bugs, II the present arrangement, miserable in itself,
were made work well Is capable OF working
But with an arrangement which is radically wrong and
badly administered, good results impossible.
Herein lies the cause of small revenues Men Of bust
are driven from the mails by the miserable misnan-
agement OF that important and, when well managed most
useful branch OF The public service. Make the mails
regular and expeditions as may be easily done, and the
convenience and interest of all men will induce them,
especially al the present low rates OF postage 10 the
mails at all times IN preference TO any other channel OF
correspondence; and, az natural and certain conse
quence the revenue will be increased from twenty
fold, and be far more than sufficient to pay twice
100000 per annun necessary, Tor the service, which,
indeed, be procured for less than $50 000
But, even in view Of all this The head of the Post
Office Department either cannot appreciate IFS truth,
will not perform the duty imposes. This, however we
who live in the Mississippi valley, and dependent
upon the mails on that river as The great trunk from
which all our smaller streams OF mail service drawn,
have been long subjected to and yet enduring Sup
pose, suchinlusce inflicted attempted for
single month, upon any section OF the Atlantic coast
ulac nv pft ha Eaafn Nnrfl ran-
lure 10 say that we would not be permitted IN peace TO
give days attention to any other business here until
that injustice redressed. Memorials and "lobby
gang" would pour in upon us, and wind their folds about
us, they have in the case of this Collins line mill
passed law in their behalf. Yet here is the whole
Mississippi valley, which, IN extent and importance TO
the real welfare OF this Union swallow up your whole
Atlantic coast, and all your seaboard cities has no mail
line at ALL and, IN consequence, Is subjected to nconve
nence and injury OF which northern and eastern find
IL difficult to conceive This we have endured Tor years
We have made no great noise about IT, much as we have
whether would have been listened TO. Months
consumed, and the business of the whole country
pended, in considering the interest Of single mail from
single Atlantic city TO single British port, while few
inmates begrudged while briefly recite the wrongs
and nmy feeble way assert the rights OF the great heart
OF this Union.
that have 10 bring this matter before the Senate.
know that The law already authorizss, and that the
public interests OF at least eight sovereign States OF this
Union demand of the Post Office Department TO do all
that now ask in this connection, and have made that
demand repeatedly upon that department. l have made
il in vain. will longer dance attendance upon any
executive officer be disappointed by his stupid incom
potency 10 understand the law, be longer delayed by
his culpabe neglect OF duty. have come now before
the representatives OF those eight States, assembled with
tier conederates in council, and appeal alike TO their
enlightened lf-interest and OF justice. Shall our
passage OF bill which lately introduced here, TO compel
the Post Office Department 10 do that act OF justice which
has been long and so inuriousy withheld And that IS
merely place the Mississippi valley, and all its great in
The general SYSTEM and upon tooung oil equality
with the other portions Of oY common country ask for
ourselves only what othershave desire no inequality
in favor | would accept none, II II were offered
Oar bill is before the Committee The Post Office aud
Post Roads, and has been there Tor some time. call
upon my honorable friend the chairman OF that commit
eo for report upon II at an early day, and submit to
his Of right, il we, who have suffered this MUS
long, shall be still postponed, while this single
Collins line shall overshadow the whole land with It's
monopoly, and rde paramount over all other business
and every other interest.
Mr. RUSK ] will give the senator a report in a very
short time.
Mr. BoRLAND. My opposition, Mr.. President, TO
this Collins line not sectional only ask that all cltl
Zens all companies all interests, and all sections shall
stand alike before The law and that the principles
Of public justice, and the considerations Of public
policy shall be observed in taking OF the interests
OF every section OF the Union VIVA, my
when the senator from Louisiana MI SouLEl intro.
duced bill here short time since Tor mail line from
Net0 Orleans 10 Vera Crust That bill proposed line
Of steamers suabe for purposes, &c, to carry the
mail between those two Cities at a small amount OF com
pesaUOn, Tue contract 10 gwen 10
ual That was for southern por-ihe seaport for my
State. And yet, sir, the record will show that
spoke and voted against the proposition IN that form.
And ! was happy TO find that the views ! then ex-
pressedihe views have since expressed in respect
10 the Collins ne and based upon the same principle OF
equality-were concuued in by the Senate and acted
upon for while the mail line established the bill
was so amended as to require the Postmaster General TO
procure the service under the general law, by public
advertisement from the lowest and best bidder Thought
that right then for New Orleans ! think the
principle and the right now for New York
| ask the same laws and equality under them for all.
81 DO unto others We would they shall do unto YOU,
the injunction OF Holy Scripture for the regulation OF
intercourse as individual men; and no man dsre-
CARDS IL without making himself cnlpable IN the sight OF
The God who created hun. So IL imbodies the principle
upon which our political government formed, and
none OF us disregard il in the administration OF that
government without violating the constitution il inspires
hy whose virtue exist a Union, and by whose
tlority alone we are here 10 legisate.
A few words upon other argument which has been
urged by certain senators in favor OF this Collins line
and have done with IL.
AT the conclusion OF a long and eloquent disquson-
almost an epic poem--upon the wonder working powers
oil steam-he changes il has made, and is still making,
10 the business OF the world, in arts and dstin
guished senator gavely tells that must maintain
this Collins line OF steamers their present Foundations
as the OF maintaining equal footing, any safe
relations with the other maritime nations OF the world
such conclusion, from ssch premises, in view OF the
facts before Us, strikes me pal able sqiit0
Without repeating what before adduced $ unanswera
bic, and which certainly far remain nsweredacs-
To prove the utter fuy OF regarding these ships
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