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35© CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
momentous question of a general government was to come
before the people. I have seen no good apology, not even
in Mr. Hazard's publication, for deviation from the old custom of permitting printers to exchange their papers by the
mail. That practice was a great public convenience and
gratification. If the priviledge was not from convention an
original right, it had from prescription strong pretensions
for continuance ; especially at so interesting a period. The
interruption in that mode of conveyance has not only given
great concern to the friends of the Constitution, who
wished the public to be possessed of every thing that might
be printed on both sides of the question, but it has afforded
its enemies very plausible pretext for dealing out their
scandals and exciting jealousies, by inducing a belief that
the suppression of intelligence at that critical juncture was
a wicked trick of policy, contrived by an aristocratic junto.
Now, if the Postmaster General (with whose character I am
unacquainted, and therefore would not be understood to
form an unfavorable opinion of his motives) has any candid
advisers who conceive that he merits the public employment, they ought to counsel him to wipe away the aspersion
he has incautiously brought upon a good cause. If he is
unworthy of the office he holds, it would be well that the
ground of a complaint, apparently so general, should be
enquired into, and, if founded, redressed through the
medium of a better appointment. It is a matter, in my
judgement, of primary importance that the public mind
should be relieved from inquietude on this subject. I know
it is said that the irregularity or defect has happened acci-
dently, in consequence of the contract for transporting the
mail on horseback, instead of having it carried in the stages,
but I must confess, I could never account, upon any satisfactory principles, for the inveterate enmity with which the
Postmaster General is asserted to be actuated against that
valuable institution. It has often been understood by wise
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 3 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000385 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 35© CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. momentous question of a general government was to come before the people. I have seen no good apology, not even in Mr. Hazard's publication, for deviation from the old custom of permitting printers to exchange their papers by the mail. That practice was a great public convenience and gratification. If the priviledge was not from convention an original right, it had from prescription strong pretensions for continuance ; especially at so interesting a period. The interruption in that mode of conveyance has not only given great concern to the friends of the Constitution, who wished the public to be possessed of every thing that might be printed on both sides of the question, but it has afforded its enemies very plausible pretext for dealing out their scandals and exciting jealousies, by inducing a belief that the suppression of intelligence at that critical juncture was a wicked trick of policy, contrived by an aristocratic junto. Now, if the Postmaster General (with whose character I am unacquainted, and therefore would not be understood to form an unfavorable opinion of his motives) has any candid advisers who conceive that he merits the public employment, they ought to counsel him to wipe away the aspersion he has incautiously brought upon a good cause. If he is unworthy of the office he holds, it would be well that the ground of a complaint, apparently so general, should be enquired into, and, if founded, redressed through the medium of a better appointment. It is a matter, in my judgement, of primary importance that the public mind should be relieved from inquietude on this subject. I know it is said that the irregularity or defect has happened acci- dently, in consequence of the contract for transporting the mail on horseback, instead of having it carried in the stages, but I must confess, I could never account, upon any satisfactory principles, for the inveterate enmity with which the Postmaster General is asserted to be actuated against that valuable institution. It has often been understood by wise |
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