Note 60 — Chapter II · The Power of Congress to Establish Postoffices
Reading edition
Bassett, Life of Andrew Jackson, vol. ii, p. 413. “... in introducing the postmaster general into the cabinet, Jackson began a practice that probably tended, in the long run, to invigorate the workings of the postal establishment, notwithstanding the fact that Barry, successor to McLean in the office, made a conspicuously dismal record.” Learned, p. 250.