Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
318
The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
113
Whether
this
argument
is
cool
or
arbitrary
I
have
not
time
nor
inclination
to
analyse,
but
having
been
removed
from
this
ancient
district
of
road,
and
given
my
uniform
opinion
upon
the
merits
of
the
alteration
itself,
I
have
no
desire
to
fight
the
memorialists
to
all
eternity.
Before,
however,
taking
final
leave
of
this
contest,
and
of
a
memorial
said
to
be
unanswerable,
I
consider
myself
in
duty
and
honour
called
upon
to
vindicate
the
late
Mr
----,
as
well
as
myself,
from
the
vindictive
terms
of
'ignorance,
arbitrary,
and
oppressive'
implied
in
the
memorial,
and
which,
if
admitted
sub
silentio,
might
not
be
confined
to
the
mismanagement
of
the
Post-office,
but
to
every
other
department
of
civil
government.
In
order
to
this,
I
shall
as
briefly
as
I
can
follow
the
general
track
of
the
memorial,
as
of
a
long
beaten
road
in
which,
if
there
is
not
safety,
there
is
no
new
difficulty
to
encounter.
It
is
needless
to
go
over
the
different
distances,--I
am
ready
to
admit
them--they
have
not
formed
any
material
part
of
the
question,--and
the
supposed
ignorance
of
the
surveyor
here
is
not
to
the
point.
The
alteration
neither
did
nor
should
proceed
upon
such
mathematical
nicety.
The
idea
of
posts
is
to
embrace
the
most
extensive
and
most
needful
accommodation.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
