(RELIGION) Report of the Committee of the Senate on the S

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(RELIGION.) Report of the Committee of the Senate . . . on the Subject of the Transportation of the Mails on Sunday. Illustrated broadside on silk, 20 1/2 x 14 inches; minor foxing and wear, laid down on cardboard. (MRS) Baltimore, MD: James Lovegrove, 1829

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Argues for the separation of church and state by instituting Sunday mail service: "If the observance of holy-day becomes incorporated in our institutions, shall we not forbid the movement of an army; prohibit an assault in time of war; and lay an injunction upon our naval officers to lie in the wind while upon the ocean on that day?" Most notable among the five committee members was future president John Tyler.