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Confederate Circular Sent by Postmaster General Re

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Rare Confederate Printed Circular issued by John Reagan, Postmaster General, 1p. quarto, Post Office Department, Montgomery, Alabama, March 26, 1861, with cover addressed to the Postmaster of Halseville, South Carolina, and reads in part: "...All postmasters and other employees in the postal service are directed to continue the performance of their respective duties as such, and render all their accounts and pay all moneys to the order of the government of the Untied States, as they have heretofore done, until the government of the Confederate States shall be prepared to assume the entire control of its postal affairs. The Congress of the Confederate States has, by an act approved March 15th, 1861, provided 'that the Postmaster-General shall have power to issue circular instructions to the several postmasters and other officers still performing service under the appointment of the United States, in order to enforce the rendition of the proper accounts and payment of the moneys collected by them per account of the United States, until the Postmaster General shall have issued his proclamation, announcing that the former service is discontinued, and is replaced by the new service organized under the authority of this government.'...The Post Office Department of the Confederate States will be organized as soon as practicable, but the cause of delay incident to its organization are such as to place it out of my power to determine definitely when the new service will be substituted for the old...We must regard the carrying of our mails, at this time, by that government, as a great public necessity to the people of both governments, resulting from their past intimate political, commercial and social relations, and alike important to the preservation of the present interests of the people of both countries..." Fair.

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