The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private...
A Significant Challenge to the U.S. Postal Service Spooner, Lysander [1808-1887]. The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails. New York: Tribune Printing Establishment, 1844. 24 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Negligible light shelfwear, light toning and foxing. A well-preserved copy. $500. * First edition. Adams describes Spooner as "an American anarchist who had a genius for opposing government. He considered the postal rate of 25 cents from Boston to Washington exorbitant & the result of government monopoly. He founded his own American Letter Mail Company. The government overwhelmed him with injunctions to which he replied in the present pamphlet. He abandoned his scheme but his efforts resulted in an act of Congress reducing rates." A second edition was published in 1851, the year Congress compelled him to close the company through an act that granted a monopoly to the US Postal Service. Adams, Radical Literature 48. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 9358.
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