Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Southern Mail
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Secession and the U.S. Mail
Author: Conrad Kalmbacher
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481744127
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In Secession and the U. S. Mail: The Postal Service, The South, and Sectional Controversy, Conrad Kalmbacher tells the little known story of over fifty years of dissension between the Post Office Department and the South, culminating in the departments role in the events leading to secession and the Guns of April 1861. Severe reductions and retrenchment in mail service throughout the South and on Mississippi River steamboats during the administration of Postmaster General Joseph Holt, 1859-1860, angered southern senators and congressmen against the federal government. Deploring the postmaster generals policy, southern leaders called Holt our bitter foe who, by a mere stroke of his pen had curtailed mail service in the South to such a degree as to render it no service at all. Because of this bitter anger, one Pulitzer Prize-winning historian characterized Holts policy as one of the less tangible factors leading to secession. Drawing on House and Senate documents, postmasters general reports, and Congressional debates, as well as personal letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapers of the time, the author makes extensive use of primary sources. The book details how antagonisms between the Postal Service and the South had their beginnings early on in American history: Continual debates questioned whether the South received its fair share of federal dollars for post offices and post routes. Southerners defended the maintenance of unprofitable mail routes in remote areas. Negro postriders caused resentment among Southerners. And years of controversy inflamed the South over the distribution of abolitionist literature through the mails. Today, when the role of government is a central issue in American politics, it is revealing to consider the ominous signposts of 1859-1860, as the Post Office Department - at that time the principal political agency of the federal government became embroiled in overheated debate, partisan bickering, and failed compromise.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481744127
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
In Secession and the U. S. Mail: The Postal Service, The South, and Sectional Controversy, Conrad Kalmbacher tells the little known story of over fifty years of dissension between the Post Office Department and the South, culminating in the departments role in the events leading to secession and the Guns of April 1861. Severe reductions and retrenchment in mail service throughout the South and on Mississippi River steamboats during the administration of Postmaster General Joseph Holt, 1859-1860, angered southern senators and congressmen against the federal government. Deploring the postmaster generals policy, southern leaders called Holt our bitter foe who, by a mere stroke of his pen had curtailed mail service in the South to such a degree as to render it no service at all. Because of this bitter anger, one Pulitzer Prize-winning historian characterized Holts policy as one of the less tangible factors leading to secession. Drawing on House and Senate documents, postmasters general reports, and Congressional debates, as well as personal letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapers of the time, the author makes extensive use of primary sources. The book details how antagonisms between the Postal Service and the South had their beginnings early on in American history: Continual debates questioned whether the South received its fair share of federal dollars for post offices and post routes. Southerners defended the maintenance of unprofitable mail routes in remote areas. Negro postriders caused resentment among Southerners. And years of controversy inflamed the South over the distribution of abolitionist literature through the mails. Today, when the role of government is a central issue in American politics, it is revealing to consider the ominous signposts of 1859-1860, as the Post Office Department - at that time the principal political agency of the federal government became embroiled in overheated debate, partisan bickering, and failed compromise.
Saint-Exupery
Author: Stacy Schiff
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805079135
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Traces the life of the French author and pilot, depicts his complex personality, and looks at his contributions to the war effort.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805079135
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Traces the life of the French author and pilot, depicts his complex personality, and looks at his contributions to the war effort.
Transportation of Mail
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Postal Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Railway Mail Pay
Author: United States. Commission to Investigate the Postal Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railway mail service
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railway mail service
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Reports of the Majority and Minority of the Committee. Together with the Documents Accompanying the Same, to which is Prefixed an Index of the Principal Matters in the Reports
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
History of the Railway Mail Service
Author: United States. Railway Mail Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The New York City and Co-partnership Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description