On this day 250 years ago the Boston Committee of Correspondence wrote to the Committee of Newport, Rhode Island about the British Postal Service. The letter stated that the existing postal system was “unconstitutional, and a usurpation of the British Parliament no longer to be borne. . . . and dangerous to the liberties of America, as the officers have it in their power to intercept our communications, to extort what they please, and employ them to divide us and then to enslave us.”
Source: Samuel Arnold Greene, History of the State of Rhode Island (1859) at p. 331 (found at https://www.masshist.org/dorr/volume/4/sequence/552)
On This Day In The Revolution 
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I see by this that tyrants have always seized control of the news whenever possible. Yesterday is was the mail service. Today it’s the internet.
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