Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Dangcrous Power. [ARTICLE]

Dangcrous Power.

The Postmaster General says any Postmaster has a right to t urn whatever matter he finds in the mail which he deems “ incendiary.” In speaking of this singularly threattening decision, the Albany Preening Journal says:—“This is imposing very onerous duties upon .these gentlemen, and rather dangerous powers. In the despotism of the world, the Censors of the Press are generally intelligent men; but a great many Postmasters at the South (and at the North, also for that matter) are profound blockheads. And yet they are to decide upon what should and what should not, go through the mails! Extracts from the writings of Washington, Lafayette, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry would be tabooed; and no man, who exercises his guaranteed right of speech, however mildly in protest of wrong, is sure that his utterances can not find conveyance south of the Potomac. The Censorship of despotism is mild compared withthatof our glorious Republic.”