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THE AMERICAN POSTAL NETWORK, 1792-1914 EDITED BY Richard R. John VOLUME 1 Administration CONTENTS General Introduction vii Introduction: Administration xiii Select Bibliography xix Provenance of Pamphlets Printed in this Set xxv Timothy Pickering, Instructions to the Deputy Postmasters (1792) 1 John M'Lean, Post-Office Law, Instructions and Forms (1825) 11 Francis O. J. Smith, A Letter Relating to the Administration and Present Condition of the Post Office Department (1835) 61 Arthur W. Austin, A Memorandum Concerning the Charlestown Post-Office (1835) 87 Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates... on the Subject of the Location of the Post Office [In New York City] (1836) 111 'Cincinnatus', Freedom's Defence: Or a Candid Examination of Mr. Calhoun's Report on the Freedom of the Press (1836) 129 Lysander Spooner, Unconstitutionality ofthe Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails (1844) 151 Seven Years in the Boston Post Office, By an Ex-Clerk [ 18 54] 177 Nahum Capen, Correspondence Respecting Postal Improvements, and the Removal of the Boston Post Office (1858) 185 J. D.Westcott, Exposition of Facts and Law in the Case of G. G. Westcott, Esq., Postmaster at Philadelphia (1859) 193 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Report ...on the Condition ofOur Postal Affairs (1864) 231 Oliver Wood, Eleven Months as Special Agent in the Postoffice Department (1868) 255 The Legality of Wells Fargo's Letter-Carrying Business 273 Post Office Department, Wells, Fargo & Co's Letter-Express (1880) 275 Horace F. Page, The Origin, Methods, and Important Public Uses of the Letter Service of Wells, Fargo & Company [1880] 293 vi The American Postal Network, Volume 1 Abraham D. Hazen, The Post-Office Before and Since 1880, Under Democratic and Republican Administrations (1880) 313 Thaddeus B. Wakeman, The Unanswered Argument against the Constitutionality of the So-Called Comstock Postal Laws (1880) 345 Richard Henry Dana, The Appointment and Tenure of Postmasters (1895) 377 Charles Emory Smith, Greatest Business Organization in the World: The United States Postal Service (1899) 389 Louis F. Post, Our Despotic Postal Censorship (1906) 405 James M. Beck, Constitutionality of the New Federal Law Regulating Journalism (1912) 423 Explanatory Notes 435 THE AMERICAN POSTAL NETWORK, 1792-1914 EDITED BY Richard R.John VOLUME 2 Contracting CONTENTS Introduction: Contracting vii I. Steamship Subsidies and the Overland Mail Edward Mills, Statement... in Relation to his Mail Contract with the United States Government [1850] 1 A Few Suggestions Respecting the United States Mail Steam Service (1850) 13 W. C. Templeton, Proposals for and Advantages of a Regular Mail Communication ... by Steam Packets between New Orleans and Vera Cruz (1851) 31 E. K. Collins 45 E. K. Collins, Memorial (1851) 49 Anon., Competition [1851] 55 Patriotic Speculations: How to Get Your Foot Out of It [1851] 61 Robert B. Forbes, On the Establishment of a Line of Mail Steamersfrom the Western Coast of the United States on the Pacific to China (1855) 71 E. K. Collins, The Ocean Mail Service (1857) 91 B. B. Meeker, Overland Mail Route from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound (1858) 103 John Roach, Letter... Suggesting the Experiment of Advertisingfor Proposals of the Lowest Rates (1876) 121 Pacific Mail Steamship Company, The National Advantages of Government Aid to American Commerce (1877) 133 II. Railway Mail Controversies 147 George Bliss, Reply to a Late Letter of the Post-Master General (1842) 149 Executive Committee of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies, Report of a Committee of the Joint Board of Directors (1847) 165 vi The American Postal Network, Volume 2 Cave Johnson,Letter ...in Answer to a Publication Made by theJoint Board of Directors ofthe Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies (1847) 179 Executive Committee of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies, Reply (1847) 193 Railroad Coventions 211 DuffGreen, Circular to the Presidents of Railroad Companies [1851] 213 Proceedings of a Convention... on the Recommendation to Reduce the Pay for Mail Service to Rail Road Companies (1854) 231 The Civil War 247 Statement Made by the Railroad Companies Owning the Lines Between Washington and New York (1864) 249 Correspondence Between the President of the Virginia Central Rail Road Company and the Postmaster General in Relation to Postal Service (1864) 259 Payment to Railroads for Carriage of Mail 285 Isaac Hinckley, Postal Cars or No Postal Cars? A Question to Be Settled by the Action or Inaction of Congress (1874) 289 George S. Bangs, Railroads vs. Postal Cars (1875) 315 George S. Bangs,Discussion ofthe Proper Method of Compensation to Railroads for the Transportation of the Mails (1875) 359 The Contest between Post Office and Railway 379 W. W. Baldwin, The Railroad Mail Pay: A Memorandum [c. 1904] 381 C. S. Mellen, Correspondence Between the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. and the Post Office Department Regarding Carriage of the Mail (1909) 387 Explanatory Notes 415 THE AMERICAN POSTAL NETWORK, 1792-1914 EDITED BY Richard R. John VOLUME 3 Reform, Part I: 1792-1861 PICKERING & CHATTO 2012 c CONTENTS Introduction: Reform, Part I: 1792-1861 vii Jeremiah Evarts (ed.), An Account of'Memorials... Praying that the Mails May Not Be Transported, Nor Post- Offices Kept Open, on the Sabbath (1829) 1 Jeremiah Evarts, The Logic and Law of Col. Johnson's Report to the Senate on Sabbath Mails (1829) 53 "The Virginia Society' for Promoting the Observance of the Christian Sabbath, To the People of the United States [c. 1830] 85 Barnabas Bates, An Address... on the Memorials to Congress to Prevent the Transportation of the Mail, and the Opening of the Post Offices on Sunday (1830) 93 Edmund Charles, Suggestions upon the Nature and Disadvantages of the Present Post Office Tariff (1844) 103 'Franklin', An Examination of the Probable Effect of the Reduction of Postage (1844) 115 Amasa Walker, Cheap Postage, and How to Get It (1845) 133 Cheap Postage Association, Constitution of the Cheap Postage Association (1848) 151 Joshua Leavitt, Cheap Postage: Remarks and Statistics (1848) 157 Barnabas Bates, A BriefStatement ofthe Exertions ofthe Friends of Cheap Postage (1848) 235 New York Cheap Postage Association, Cheap Postage: A Dialogue on Cheap Postage (1849) 271 Lysander Spooner, Who Caused the Reduction of Postage in 1845? (1849) 285 Cheap Postage 317 New York Cheap Postage Association, An Address of the Directors of the New York Cheap Postage Association, to the People of the United States (1850) 319 Report ofthe Committee on Literature ofthe Senate of New York, on Postage Reform, Made to the Senate, Feb. 19,1850 (1850) 333 vi The American Postal Network, Volume 3 Elihu Burritt, Ocean Penny Postage (1854) 345 New York Postal Reform Committee, Proceedings of a Public Meeting (1856) 353 Explanatory Notes 389 THE AMERICAN POSTAL NETWORK, 1792-1914 EDITED BY Richard R.John VOLUME 4 Reform, Part II: 1861-1914 PICKERING & CHATTO 2012 6 CONTENTS Introduction: Reform, Part II: 1861-1914 vii I. Postal Telegraphy Gardiner G. Hubbard, Postal Telegraph (1869) 1 Leonidas Trousdale, The Postal Telegraph System (1869) 23 7he Postal Telegraph. Statement of a Few Facts Showing What has Been Accomplished in Europe, and What the Development Might Be in America (1872) 43 S. R Covington, The Postal Telegraph (1875) 53 Charles A. Sumner, The Postal Telegraph (1879) 77 F. H. Giddine s, Railroads and Telegraphs: Who Shall Control Them? (1881) 113 New York Board of Trade and Transportation, A Postal Telegraph and Telephone: What Has Been Accomplished in Great Britain (1882) 127 The Business Practices of Western Union 145 J. A. Price, Postal Telegraphy (1882) 147 Some Serious Considerations Concerning a Governmental Telegraph (1883) 163 E. B.Vedder,A 'Postal'or Government Telegraph Would be Unconstitutional, Inexpedient, and Dangerous (1888) 181 Gardiner G. Hubbard, Postal Telegraph: An Address Delivered... Before the Chamber of Commerce ofthe State of New-York (1890) 209 II. Parcels Post James L. Cowles 225 James L. Cowles, A Parcels Post: A Cent a Pound (1894) 229 James L. Cowles, The Post-Office the Citadel of American Liberty (1899) 239 New York Postal Progress League [1903] 253 C. A. Hutsinpillar, The Parcels Post (1904) 257 vi The American Postal Network, Volume 4 George H. Maxwell, Perils of Parcels Post Extension: Centralization of Trade {1908) 265 S. R. Miles, The Menace of a Parcels Post [ 1909] 289 Charles William Burrows 331 Charles William Burrows, Further Thoughts on Parcels Post (1908) 333 Charles William Burrows, One Cent Letter Postage: Second Class Mail Rates and Parcels Post (1911) 345 The Widening of the Debate on Parcels Post 361 W. P. Bogardus, Post Parcels [1911] 363 Emma Frantz, The Parcels Post: The Mail Order House and their Effect upon the Future of the United States [1911] 371 George Hoy t Allen, I Want a Parcels Post [1911] 377 Debates over the General Parcels Post 391 World Postal League, The Public Service Post Office (1914) 393 Merchants' Association of New York, Against Further Extension of the Parcels Post Service (1914) 399 III. Second-Class Mail John J. Hamilton, A Plea for the Business Freedom of the American Press (1906) 409 Wilmer Atkinson, Inquiry into the True Meaning and Intent of the Postal Laws Relating to the Public Press (1908) 429 Wilmer Atkinson, Guessing and Figuring Having Failed Try a Few Ounces of Common Sense (1911) 447 James J. Britt, Second-Class Mail Matter: Its Uses and Abuses (1911) 469 Frank E. Noyes, Zone Rates for Second-Class Mail (1913) 483 Explanatory Notes 493 Index 527 .
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