[B] Extract from Regulations respecting Post Offices.—­“At Post Offices where the mail arrives on Sunday, the office is to be kept open for the delivery of letters, &c. for one hour or more after the arrival and assorting of the mail; but in case that would interfere with the hours of public worship, then the office is to be kept open for one hour after the usual time of dissolving the meeting for that purpose.”

A very large meeting of citizens of New York, opposed to the
proposition to discontinue the mails on Sunday, was held at New
York this week.  A similar meeting has also been held at Boston.

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SABBATH MAILS.

SALEM, (Mass.) Feb. 9, 1829.

To the Hon. Richard M. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee on the
Post Office and Post Roads, Washington.

SIR:—­The subscribers, a committee appointed at a meeting of the inhabitants of this town, on the 3d January last, to take such measures as they may deem expedient to oppose any attempts to interfere for religious purposes with the transportation of the Mails and opening the Post Offices on Sunday, have read with pleasure the report of the Committee of the Senate on that subject.

Previous to receiving that report, they were about petitioning Congress—­and the public sentiment in this place is so universal against an interference for religious reasons, that a very respectable and numerous subscription could readily have been obtained.—­But the report from the Senate represented the subject in so powerful a light—­demonstrated so clearly the want of power in the government to legislate for the reasons given by the petitioners, and showed so conclusively, that if they had the power, they certainly had not the ability to determine for all the people of the United States, what God’s law was—­that we have concluded it would not be necessary at the present session of Congress to take any further steps in the business.  We have thought, however, that tho’ constituting but a small part of the United States, yet it might not be uninteresting to the committee, to know how much in accordance with our views are the sentiments expressed in their report and to assure them for ourselves, and those whom we represent, that we shall at all times consider them engaged in the highest and most momentous acts of legislation, whenever their efforts shall tend to prevent an interference of the religious with the civil power—­all union between church and state—­all attempts of religious zealots to enforce by law, what they may term divine truth.

     You will please to convey to the gentlemen of the committee, our
     sense of their proceedings, and for yourself, sir, accept the
     assurance of our respectful consideration.

     GEORGE CLEVELAND,
     GIDEON TUCKER,
     DUDLEY L. PICKMAN,
     WILLARD PEELE,
     PERLEY PUTNAM,
     NATHANIEL FROTHINGHAM.