The Post Office And Slavery

ccordmg to the Report ot the f. M. General for the year ending June 30, 1843, it appears that the cost of the mails in the Free States was $1,329,067. Revenue $1,952,574. Cost in the Slave States $1,618,874.- Revenue, $1,005, 026. Thus it appears that the free States :aid $'623,507 over thé cost of their own ost offices and mails, while the slave States paid $613,848, less than they received. The North, therefore, paid $623,507 in 1842-3 to carry the Southern mails; and while they paid nearly doublé the amount raised in the South, they receive $289,807 lessl The North paid more than one third more than its own necessities required; lence it is obvious that, in view of the ncreased amount of mailable matter consequent on a large rèduction of postage, the free States might bear a rèduction of at least one half the existing rates. Such is the effect of Slavery on the North through the Post Office Department, and it is for the people to say whether they