Excerpt from An Account of Memorials: Presented to Congress, During Its Last Session, by Numerous Friends of Their Country and Its Institutions; Praying That the Mails Not Be Transported, Nor Post-Offices Kept Open, on the Sabbath This number does not include a few duplicates sent to the Senate, having the same signatures as were sent to the other house. The whole number of petitions presented to both houses is 467. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

By covering both administrative and non-administrative aspects of the postal network, this four-volume reset edition shows how this system was part of a larger network which included different modes of transport and communication (steamboats, railroads, telegraphs) as well as political parties (the Democrats, Whigs and Republicans).