Speech of the Hon. E. J. Shields, of Tennessee, on the bill to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof
Subtitle: delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, May 20, 1836
Contributors: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: National Intelligencer Office
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Postal service; Censorship; History; Antislavery movements; Government and the press; Freedom of the press; Slavery
Other titles: Speech of the Honorable Ebenezer J. Shields, of Tennessee, on the bill to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof
Notes: Cover title.

"The bill to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof; and an amendment thereto, offered by Mr. Shields, to prohibit the tranmission of incendiary publications, through the mails, into the southern States, with the intent, &c. to excite the slaves therein to insurrection, &c., being under consideration in Committee of the Whole": p. [3].