Juries the Bulwark of Civil Liberty--Suspicion Not Evidence--Brief
Statement of the Case--John M. Peck, John W. Dorsey, Stephen W. Dorsey,
John R. Miner, Mr. (A. E. ) Boone (p.p. 150-156)--The Clendenning
Bonds--Miner's, Peck's, and Dorsey's Bids--Why they Bid on Cheap
Routes--Number of Routes upon which there are Indictments--The
Arrangement between Stephen W. Dorsey and John R. Miner--Appearance
of Mr. Vaile in the Contracts--Partnership Formed--The Routes
Divided--Senator Dorsey's Course after Getting the Routes--His Routes
turned over to James W. Bosler--Profits of the Business (p. 181)--The
Petitions for More Mails--Productive and Unproductive Post-offices--Men
who Add to the Wealth of the World--Where the Idea of the Productiveness
of Post routes was Hatched--Cost of Letters to Recipients in 1843--The
Overland Mail (p. 190)--Loss in Distributing the Mail in the District
of Columbia and Other Territories--Post-office the only Evidence
of National Beneficence--Profit and Loss of Mail Carrying--Orders
Antedated, and Why--Routes Increased and Expedited--Additional Bonds for
Additional Trips--The Charge that Pay was Received when the Mail was
not Carried--Fining on Shares--Subcontracts for Less than the Original
Contracts--Pay on Discontinued Routes--Alleged False Affidavits--Right
of Petition--Reviewing the Ground.