Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-11
From the Nat. Intcligencer.
Reduction Of Postage.
BY JOSIAH noLBRooK.

A cENT-AN.oUNcE" system Of postage
for all matter at all distances would give
great progress TO the "DEMuRAcY OF Scr
ENCE," and an immense revenue in the Gov
ernncnt The Post Office is the peoples
deparimuetO Of the Government; more direct
| ly, intimately, and deeply affecting tie great
| ly-vnricd interests Of every citizen than all
tile other departments united, coming home
10 the intellectual, social, moral, business,
and reciprocal relations of every man, wo-
man, aud child in the community.
No other agency but the post Office is in
any measure adequate TO the diffusion among
all places, of the light of science and Of The
soul No service capable of being rendered
TO our citizens by this agency is so high or so
pcrvading as this same diffusion of liglt.-
u is The only agency fitted for the work. aud
the highest work within the power of the
agency. There is n dignity, majesty, n
suhlinty, glory in the thought of twenty
thousand Repositories aud agencies for recciy-
ing aud distributing, among twenty or thirty
millions of citizens, members of the same
fraternity, light which eliminates the mind
aud lifts up the soul 10 the source from which
il emanated.
a system Of postage ut once simple, lib.
ernl, and enlightened, would he no less ellcc-
tive and powerful in multiplying aud invig.
Grating the wheels Of huincss Ihnn in the dif.
fusion ofknowledgc. Ii would sci in motion
thousands aud millions of new wheels never
contemplated or dreamed Of while il would
| give grea,ly y-incrcascd energy to the whole
machinery of business. Transmitting 6ranl-
pies Of goods for determining business trans
aclious, aided by the Telegraph for executing
II, would add 10 the economy, the dispatch,
and the energy of business operations, TO an
extent beyond the reach of calculation. In
| simplicity, uniformity, certainty, aud safety,
no carrying agency for small packages can
equal The National Post Office; nff6rding
business facilities for which nll would cheer
fully aud gladly pay NJ higher rates than to
Expresses or amy other Transporting ngcn-
| ces.
A cent an ounce is sixteen dollars n hun
lred pounds, s 1920 ton. Al that rntc--
forming an estimate OH The ground that the
mails on the six or seven thousand routes
would average one hundred pounds each
passage, three trips n week--thc receipt to
the Government would be more than thirty
millions of dollars yenr. Looking at the
American Post Office as business estab-
lishmeut, conducted upon the simple princi-
piles of business for carrying freight at one
cent an ounce, and what intelligent business
man can come to any other result in a cal
culntion but vast resources2
By railroad conveyance freight is carried
from N. York to Cincinnati for one dollarnnd
one dollar fifty cents n hundred pounds I'm
der the proposed plan the Government would
receive sixteen dollars hundred from New
York 10 Brooklyn, passage of fifteen min
utcs; aud from each of the twenty thousand
post offices TO its nearest neighbor, be il ten
miles or half mile.
Not to speak of tho numherless new
springs of business, with vastly Increased
power 10 all, in moving commercial opera
tons, il would add TO the interest of ngricul-
lure and the mechanic arts increased ener-
gies aud greatly multiplied facilities. Roots,
seeds, scions, plants, samples of wheat,
tobacco, aud other products, and numerous
articles interesting TO farmers, could he sent
hy process simple, direct, aud certain, from
any place 10 any place in the Union.
Whether viewed in It's mighty and pervad-
ing energies for the promotion Of knowledge
social relations, general, kindly intercourse,
patriotism, commercial operations, agricultural
and manufacturing interestst, or Government
resources, no intelligent mind, under full,
careful, aud candid investigation of the sub
I.ject, can probably come 10 but one couclu-
sion on the result of n cENT-AE-oUECE"
system Of postage for all matter safe TO be
carried at all distance, except across the
Rockey Mountains,