[44] Jefferson’s Anas in T. J. Randolph, Memoir, Correspondence ... of Thomas Jefferson, vol. iv, p. 506.
[45] Pomeroy, Constitutional Law, p. 264.
[46] See Brown, The Commercial Power of Congress, p. 132.
[47] Elliot’s Debates, vol. ii, p. 406.
[48] See Moore, American Eloquence, vol. i, p. 349.
[49] Art., “Postoffice,” Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, vol. iii, p. 310.
[50] 1 Stat. L. 70.
[51] This act was limited to August 12, 1790. On August 4, 1790, it was continued until March 4, 1791; on March 3 until February 20, 1792, when Congress passed “An Act to establish the postoffice and postroads in the United States.” 1 Stat L. 178, 218, 232.
[52] For example, Gideon Granger, postmaster general, wrote in 1810: “From the nature of our government it becomes a matter of the highest importance to furnish the citizens with full and correct information, and, independent of political considerations, the interests of society will be best promoted, particularly in the interior, by extending to it the facilities of this office. Nor can the seaboard complain as it puts a profit on all that the interior produces for exportation, and on all it consumes from foreign countries.” American State Papers (Postoffice), vol. xv, p. 42.
[53] Williams, The American Postoffice, p. 20 (61st Congress, 2d Sess., Sen. Doc. No. 542).