The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-03-09
NJ Our mails are the source of daily vex'

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alton; instead Of bringing home to us sense
Of the blessings of an active, efficient an pa
rental government, they serve only to remind
us of its expressions and burthens. IL makes
itself the exclusive medium of social and COM
mercial intercourse by correspondence; taxes
the country enormously for it and then per-
forms the service in a manner that makes It
worthless. or worse than useless. All the
efficient mail service throughout the West is |
done by the private express companies; to
avail ourselves OF which we must first pay the
government for its stamps and then pay the
express for the service; the government is
collecting tax from the people without any
adequate service in return. No branch OF the
government needs so radical reform. 1t is
the first and most important subject to which
the new administration should give ITS atten-
ton, and by its reformation, make The people
sensible Of the benefit Of the change in the
men at The head Of affairs. While the govern
ment is troubled with its pethoric treasury,
the people Of the interior States, are denied
on the score Of expensc-the mail facilities alb
solutely necessary for their commercial and
social intercourse. The only participation
we can have in the expenditures Of the reven
ues of the government, to which we contribute
as largely as the people on the sea coast, is in
the mail service; and it is an outrage and an
insult, when We ask for mail accommodation
that will cost $4,000 or $4,000 TO be told in
reply that the government cannot allow such
expenditures for our districts, simply because,
the revenues We pay the government, are not
in the shape Of hostages, though they be in
other forms, thousand times the amount we
receive in any shape from it. Our own dis
trict, the Pocket, has the worst mail service
of any section Of the country in proportion to
its population, trade and relative Importance.
Oar facilities are far inferior to those enjoyed
by the people on the opposite side Of the river,
though their necessities are much less than
our own. We need and should have at once
daily mail up the river to Newburg. Boon
vile, Rockport, Troy and Caanelton on to
New Albany. A daily mail is also required
to Henderson, NJ Vernon and New Harmony,
and a regular mail service up Green River
These Just claims for mail accommodations
can be had if the demand be insisted upon
with the spirit with which our rights ought ia
be enforced. If our members Of Congress will
forget the interests Of their party for while
and attend to the imperative wants of the
pcople, there will be no difficulty in getting ouI
necessities supplied. An extra expenditure Of
$1,000 additional, will give us all We demand
The sum which the members Of Congress,
voted themselves as an increase OF pay, anC
for books would give the whole Northwest
most complete system OF mail routes; the sun
taken from the public treasury, and put into
the pockets OF three hundred members Of Con
greSs, without any corresponding service
would have conferred the inestimablo bless
ings OF a complete mail service upon sever
millions OF the people in this Western c0un
try, to whom all the benefits Of the govern
men. are doed out with a nygardiy hand, a
If they were pensioners upon its bounty, in
stead Of equals in rights. Now is the prope
time for Us to make the movement with q nev
administration, and with Western Postmaste
General, who has some appreciation Of on
wants, and a knowledge Of the general negec
tn, West has suffered our remonstrances vii
b. listened to- and our petitions granted.