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Petition to Congress for Cheap Postage.
The undersigned, inhabitants of Massachusetts, respectfully petition Congress to pass a law establishing the rate of postage at two cents on each pre-paid letter of half an ounce for all distances, and one cent each on all papers above the superroyal size and half a cent each on all papers below that size, and for Penny Postage across the Atlantic Ocean: and your petitioners will ever pray
A. G. Spalding
S. Willard Saxton. A. J. Spalding
Adin S. Ballon. Adin Ballon
Abby S. Ballon. Lucy H. Ballon.
Henry Fish Saml S. Brown
Wm. W. Cook Jerome Wilmarth
E. D. Draper William Rich
Almon Thwing Noah Jackman
David A Mundy Horatio Edson
E. C. Smith Wm H. Humphrey
Wm Stacy B C Bicknell
Gilbert. F. Cass. Wm. H. Fish
Samuel W. Adams. Nathan Harris
Chas. R. Rollins Henry Newcomb
Louisa A Fish S B H Rich James McAdams.
Henry Lillie Samuel Colburn Nathl E [?]
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Will Congress expend millions yearly to keep up an Army and Navy, which contribute nothing to the moral elevation of the People, and then refuse to the country a cheap Postage system for fear it will not yield a revenue sufficient to support itself? Shall the brute force of military power be the security of our Republic, and not intelligence and virtue, which cheap postage will promote?
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Mass
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S Willard Saxon ^& 30 others^ citizens of the State of Massachusetts praying for a reduction of the rates of postage
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Jan. 8th J.G. Palfrey.
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Committee on Post office & Post-Roads.
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January 8. 1849 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Autograph Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,