Author: Wesley Everett Rich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Postwesen ; Postgeschichte ; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika / USA ; Geschichte ; Postverkehr ; Finanzen ; Organisation.
The History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829
Author: Wesley Everett Rich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Postwesen ; Postgeschichte ; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika / USA ; Geschichte ; Postverkehr ; Finanzen ; Organisation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Postwesen ; Postgeschichte ; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika / USA ; Geschichte ; Postverkehr ; Finanzen ; Organisation.
The History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829
Author: Wesley Everett Rich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829
Author: Wesley Everett Rich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Guide to the National Archives of the United States
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Secession and the U.S. Mail
Author: Conrad Kalmbacher
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1481744143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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 department's 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 general's 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 Holt's 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: 1481744143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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 department's 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 general's 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 Holt's 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.
The History of the United States Post Office to the Year 1829
Author: Wesley Everett Rich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674431690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674431690
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guide to the National Archives of the United States
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Forests and Sea Power
Author: Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ships, Wooden
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ships, Wooden
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Harvard Economic Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Evolution of the English Corn Market from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century
Author: Norman Scott Brien Gras
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description