If the sphere of government is to be determined upon principle, and it is the true principle for the government to conduct the postal service, to the end that the public welfare be subserved, then the same principle determines that railroads and telegraphs should also be conducted by government to the same end.
Woodhull argues for government control of essential services to promote public welfare.
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It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.
It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.