The undersigned citizens of Goshen, Elkhart County, and State of Indiana, respectfully represent, that, notwithstanding the vigilance of the Post Office Department, frequent depredations are committed upon the Mails, to the great injury often of the poor and necessitous, until in many instances it has been considered unsafe and hazardous to transmit valuable matter through their medium; And Further, That the stringent regulations of the Post Office Department, designed for the suppression of private expresses, have had the effect to impose an unjust and onerous tax upon those who are most deeply interested in the internal trade and commerce of the country; They Therefore pray, inasmuch as the general government has reserved to itself the exclusive and sole monopoly of all postal arrangements, that congress enact a Law guarantying the safe transmission and delivery of all prepaid mailable matter, thereby placing the United States under the regulations and conditions of a common carrier. And your petitioners will ever pray &c