That your Petitioners intreat your Honourable House to give speedy effect to this Report. And your Petitioners will ever pray.
MOTHERS AND FATHERS that wish to hear from their absent children!
FRIENDS who are parted, that wish to write to each other!
EMIGRANTS that do not forget their native homes!
FARMERS that wish to know the best Markets!
MERCHANTS AND TRADESMEN that wish to receive Orders and Money quickly and cheaply!
MECHANICS AND LABOURERS that wish to learn where good work and high wages are to be had! support the Report of the House of Commons with your Petitions for an UNIFORM PENNY POST. Let every City and Town and Village, every Corporation, every Religious Society and Congregation, petition, and let every one in the kingdom sign a Petition with his name or his mark.
THIS IS NO QUESTION OF PARTY POLITICS.
Lord Ashburton, a Conservative, and one of the richest Noblemen in the country, spoke these impressive words before the House of Commons Committee—"Postage is one of the worst of our Taxes; it is, in fact, taxing the conversation of people who live at a distance from each other. The communication of letters by persons living at a distance is the same as a communication by word of mouth between persons living in the same town."