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 | | The power granted to Congress, on the subject of mails, is, both in its terms, and in its nature, additional to, not destructive of, the pre-existing rights of the States, and the natural rights of the people. |
 | | The idea, that the business of carrying letters is, in its nature, a unit, or monopoly, is derived from the practice of arbitrary governments, who have either made the business a monopoly in the hands of the government, or granted it as a monopoly to individuals. |
 | | If individuals voluntarily send letters enough by the government mail, to pay the expenses of the establishment--well--if not, the establishment must go down, or be sustained like all the other departments of the government, by general taxation-and not by restraints upon competition. |
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