Note 334 — Chapter IV · Limitations on the Postal Power

Rev. Stat. Secs. 3890, 5471. But is this illustration on all fours with the question of illegally excluding La Questione Sociale? Mr. Bonaparte mentions the fact that while the article “constitutes a seditious libel and its publication, in my opinion, is undoubtedly a crime at common law,” it is not an “offense against the United States in the absence of some federal statute making it one.” U. S. v. Hudson & Goodwin, 7 Cranch 32 (1812).