New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-14

enterprise builds them; for moment doubt that the
cost Of carrying letters is twice great when Government
u the carrier it would be they carried by indiydu
ais and small associations Bat u his work is thrown
open TO unlimited competition, then al experience IN
Ike proves the cost of the work Will regulate the
pay e1scted IL; other words the Of pOs1g
letters viii be according 20 the expense Of carving
them. Ii safe say that in such the Of post
half the single letters would exceed one cent
On portion Of the remaining half would be cents
on much smaller portion, two three times two cents
and on comparative few part Of whom. IL be
remembered, are not reached by the pressM POstOcs
accommodations, three or four even five times
two cents.
Iti- argued that The rates Y postage should be Uniform
throughou, me whoe eng'h sna presatn o. ne nsgn
expense Of great and glazing innsce. Two brothers
reside in New England One Of them says " will cor
tDue TO reside in New England II is true that my rent
and fuel, and bread dear but my merchandise y
cheap because it Is subjected to Fight charge OF
transportation; and, ere long the postage on is'.ers
through every part Of ralroad-sced NewEngiand WIZ
be very small The other brother says; VIII re-
inove to Nebraska 1t is true that home IN new
country has its disadvantages and tTas ba, iano ana
CD eap because shall soon grow IT, AS 10 merchandise
tos, who knows but Government WILL ere long, be 80
all over the country, and az the charge for all
dista short long T. Now, would it be right for
Cove realize this anticipation OF the Nebraska
brother and to carrier OF merchandise well as let
tiers and on such absurd terms, too No-al admit
fiat would be wrong, very wrong very oppressive IL
t,poIe to- ssLingon so cents from Btimore to P.burg
one dollar from Baltimore to Chicago, and three dollars
from baltimore 10 Nebraska Now, it would be bad
enough for Government TO moDOpoize the caryingt of
nee; but far worse to have only one price.a mean or
average price, and to charge one dollar for carrying
the barrel to Washington and Pittsburgh az wei as to
Chicago and only dollar for carrying 10 Nebraska
Such bringing O prices to level would be oppressive
to the people Of Pittsburgh far to the people Of
Washngtcan; and it would be doing favor TO the people
of Nebrask the expense Of Gil equity and justice And
yet if Government requires The Nebraska brother to pay
no higher Of postage Nebraska letters than re,
0uires the England brother TO pay New-England
letters Why in the name Of consistency, should not
make the transportation Of other property cheap to tue
Nebraska ito the NewEngland brotherl Can any tell
laid omar the Nebraska brother should be favored
because he ihas to encounter the hardshps of making
home in the wderpessl anticipated and replIei 10 bs
objection IN my REFERENCE TO the advantages weras
Disadvantages Of such home and in my reference to The
disadvantages As well as advantages Of home in long
settled section of the country Moreover was because
he that the Disadvantages of his home would be
lie advantages that he concluded exni-
CRATE Hence he il not object for partality 10 eHpend
itself uponcertainy not for the Partially Of Govern
ment tovernunept 10 be impartial always, and with
all. Government has no gifts TO make-even to the most
needy no vs 70 bO oen To c om O ts re &
densey peoped asst TO the poor and thnly pcOped West
But ii il not due from Government. 1t is due from to
their fellow and is TO be paid without the ineryen-
ton of Government The deep of such obligation
has been already expressed in the bestowment of MILLIONS
upon schools md churches.
Twond add nn.ler fis head that it IL far from certain
Tint were the carr, ing Of the mails left 10 private enter
prise the people of settlements would hayet0pay
higher rates oil postage than they VIII have to pay Gov
ernment continues TO lie the macarrer. For, first we
s,e 10 continue TO have unfit and so expensive Garner
OF the mail the postage must necessarily De m
creased and greatly increased second the constantly
and rapidly swelling deficit in the PostOfee Department
already SO great as to make necessary to refuse to es
tabish pos-ofices which will not, In all PROBABILITY Do
selfsupporng Third, if the delivery oil letter nalea
to or from our inaccessible settlements should COST
20 unsuitable carrier Government twenty Genus, H.
nevertheless would not cost suitable carrier ten cents
There is another objection 20 my argument against uni
form rates of postage 1t s that such uniformity operates
much in favur Of the defs ypeopled EGst ms of the
spafsely people Westss wch, for instances In favor
the New Eng and tie Nebraska brother. 1t will be
said that if tn Nebral BROTHER pays but three cents on
the letter he receives DIS New England brother the
England brother, IL tam has to pay but three cents
the letter receives frer his Nebraska brother II
trvs that his only correspondence were with his Ne
baska bro ler the Nov gland brother would not be SC
rhuch wrozged by uniform rates of postage. But as
general Dg than treefourths on the correspond
ence of New England nan is with persons OF New
England and hence The charges the great mass of his
Etters "a ould &c regulated, not by what il may cost 70
carry letters through the wilderness aDt upon the bad
roads of Nebraska hut the good rosds OF cultivated
New.Epgland-
Is honest % oOmpelone man to pay another mans
postage Is II hops rorfpel one Sse tn pay another
States postage Dho rtenn S'a,esseo to great ex
pay the postage Of the southern States Slavery
said 10 be the oause,cf this wrong. avn aware that
Slavery is fruitful of * rongs Perhaps, this is
them. | will pass "epinon on this point just now
will eave each eto axe up his own opinion upon IT
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especial reason why tdoes not become me TO be finding
fault with Slavery. For, if may believe the newspa
pers and we all know, that newspaper is only another
name for trvth, Iemc pro-Savery man. My going to
bed as calm sasusl that night when the final vote on
| the Nebraska hill TO be STAYED off by ceaseess
rourd of cunnngly der sed yeas and nays was fatal to
all s,y Abolition fame. My former hcnors are now worn
by othesby others Who kept awake for liberty during
all the long and wesry hours of that memorable night
Surely surely If ha the newspapers say, become
"a good national ard am on the eve of embarsng in
The purchase OF negroes, | ought TO be chary of my
words againss Slave y. Laughter- Very unseemly,
very unnatural woad be for young convert to speak
reproachfuy of the idol of his fan. But, TO return
from this dgrssson was saying that northern States
have TO paw much of the postage of the southern.
While the free portion of the nation the postage e1
ceeds the expenditure, in the slave poson the exPendi
ture exceeds the postage and that too the great sum
of 81 ,3ll 907.T ,.
office shin has run lahore. As my ameRtment shows
am willing ~ lave far patched up that may I've kept
at sea couple of years longer while ether ana NJ craft is
made ready take lie place. Alter that let the pco,
broken thi,g he left - lie shore wreck tn sdmonsh
the people 80 long shall lie rotng there. of the folly
of permitting TO be the career OF Their letters
and papers Now the time Tor the Peets 10 uelerene
10 take into their sands their own work OF carrying
their own lcttex and papers Am asked how-by what
means-tbe people DO this work answer, that is
none of oar busxness 1t is more our buslness-the
busnes. o5 {oyernmsltto make this INQUIRY, than IL
wopld he IN rre how the people could bald their rceds
and canals and mans their schools and churches wEh
out the intervention o. Government Government IL 10
leave the people do er own work IN their own way te
that way the best or the worst That the peoples way Nr
carving their own lete and papers would hewever goeo
or bad be far better than the way IN whls meddilng
usurping 0overRment has done 1t, there not the ieas'
reason 10 doubt TIN -. u...,
10 nav in apy cases higher rates of postage thar they now
pay-no not if they are reconf<nseu ios<oiu of IL
by less rates of postage the great majority 'o cases
Perbapa shall be told Sha rather than have NE rates
distances, for any othef