Note 52 — Chapter II · The Power of Congress to Establish Postoffices

For example, Gideon Granger, postmaster general, wrote in 1810: “From the nature of our government it becomes a matter of the highest importance to furnish the citizens with full and correct information, and, independent of political considerations, the interests of society will be best promoted, particularly in the interior, by extending to it the facilities of this office. Nor can the seaboard complain as it puts a profit on all that the interior produces for exportation, and on all it consumes from foreign countries.” American State Papers (Postoffice), vol. xv, p. 42.