The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-11-04

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at this place. who sses receipt therefor and At the
time draft for te amount minus small coinHis
Zion in BIS favor the postmaster at Cincinnati, who
requires IL with bankers and brokers' refer
to identity and signature the draft where is
the risk TO the person who sends r. none
next TO none and perhaps might occur where
inconvenience would result from ii, in the you
have stated the receipts Of the Office at Cincinnati being
ample 20 pay the drafts But this does meet the
igency you present Suppose on the other hand '.Ai
was In Cincinnati aud wished to send 800 to "B' at
Camden, and should obtain draft from the postmaster
there you for the amount how many such drafts
would the gross proceeds of your ee enable you pay
annually apprehend Tot many and II not as many
as should DO dran where would you get the means Of
payment Unless the government sent to you special
deose you would not have the money to pay WITH and
protest would follow, and would have to hawk his
draft about In market and sell II best he could,
return it to Cincinnati for payment. In this way the
government would be protested often throughout the
country that the costs of protest would greatly oyerbal
ance the commissions to say nothing Of the injury to its
credit Besides by the adoption OF your system, every
postmaster would be virtually discount broker, and
every post Office government bahk hot OF issue, but
bank of depos;tes and drafts. 1t seems to me that, on
reflection you will not desire to 1t involved in such
hterminable compexy. There is another objection to
your plan of no uncomfortable force The money reeev
ed at tho various post Offices especially at those not To-
Gated in large cities is constantly taken up by orders
given by THO General d Oce Department tocontractoIs,
and II Is therefore needed just where it is and If used
convenience both TO the government and the contractor
Again, country is as yet but sparsey settled, and
is emphatcally agricultural in its character Her present
population being only about twenty-five millions, and
scattered as the inhabitants are through nearly twenty
FIVE degrees of latitude aid more than fifty seven OF ong
tc the receipts at most of the post Offices are small
and while at such offices drafts could be given ON Others
more lucrative in tho instance you present, they could
not be paid if drawn on thcm and it would be just
such Offices located in the newest portions OF the coun-
try into which emigration pouring, that drafts, in
most instances would be wanted. In century or more
from now, when countless human beings shall people this
republic and large number Of commercial cities shall
spring up they WILL your plan might be the source OF
convenience but should then doubt its policy and
question still the right of the government to embark
in IL under its present organization. The great object OF
its formation was foster and protect national interests
leaving the individual citizen and his private business as
much alone possible.
The objection have stated to the feasibility of your
plan in this country, growing out OF its population being
dispersed over extent of territory does not apply
with equal force to Great Britain That kingdom only
contains within its limits ll6 700 square milesbut
county in of the States in comparison with the ter
ritory of the United Sateswhie Its population IL great
er than ours so that draft drawn there by post
master another would not have to travel for payment
it might here distance of two thousand five
hundred miles in direct line stretch along frontier
outline of upwards of ten thousand miles Besides that
government is older than ours its existence dating back
many hundred years. while but yesterday, speaking COM
paratvey, America wilderness, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific ocean, untouched by the hand Of improve
ment Consequently, 1t has had time to provide
facilities of INSTRUMENTATION for its inhabitants In
London alone owing to the number Of its people, be-
lieye some thirteen post Offices are in operation
But sir will not pursue this comparison this sub
ect further Perhaps have already said too much upon
tmore than you will be willing to read AS however
differed with you in opinion and entertained for yon per
sonay, and your intelligence, high respect deemed it
my duty say frankly what have, that you might not
misunderstood me- especially you express desire that
our (mcaning MYSELF representative should be tho a'-
thor in Congress Of the measure you propose.
A word or two more, sir, upon another subject, and
have DONE You have been pleased to refer in the fore
part of your letter to my having interested myself n
postal arrangements of local nature 1t Is true, sir
have and while it docs not become me to speak Of what
have DONE trust shall be pardoned for saying hope
have already accomplished good in this respect,
but am entitled to credit for It, for it my duty
What shall be able to effect in the future time only
determine. promise, however, to accomplish whatever
unweaed attention and assiduous labor will do and if
fail to get all my constituents entitled TO, shall at
least get all it possible for to obtain The great
difficulty in the way to induce the proper officers In tho
Post Office Department to realize the increasing wants OF
the great West for additional mail facilities They have
been in this section of countyneyer further west
than Washington ciyand have lived in region where
century has been expended in building up village Of
five hundred thousand inhabitants, or peopling
county and If you tell them the same result il produced
here in few years. they too apt to regard the story
fabulous While they gentlemen, and are faithful
the discharge of what they conceive to be their duty 1t
hard to them Of the unreasonable distance
between the East and the West in point of advancement
There society is established and but few changes In,
additions required to the mail service Here
unpeopled territory in year becomes the of dense
mass of human beings, demanding additional mail ac-
comInodatons and the department does not keep
with this demand It is to be hoped however, it will do
in the future There is doubt but the West should
be suitably represented in the General Post Office but
she will be- either in TINT any other department
Of the government until her representation in Congress
take bold and united stand in defence of her rights and
them and only them will they be respected they should
be- did not accept seat in that body generously
bestowed upon me- but to be useful to those who conf
ded the trust and shall not m to battle for their inter-
ests If defeated over and again, that shall be
encouragement and should be to any representa-
tive but rather an additional incentive to renewed
ton.
In my new position, as ever have through life,
SHALL in political sense, represent the principles of the
great democratic party to which have always been at
tached and which entirely harmonze with my views. In
local and business sense, shall represent the entire
body of my constituents and shall always bo happy to
serve those who may call on need my aid.
have the honor to remain your friend and fellow
citizen, i. N. MORRIS.
JoHs w. PoTTER, Esq, #&3 Htrf15st{ssiIA
Postmaster, Camden, Illinois.
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