+--------------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | | | |Excess of | | States and | Receipts. | Expenses. |receipts over| | Territories. | | |expenditures.| +--------------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ |Maine | $309,244.35| $293,667.27| $15,577.08| |New Hampshire | 198,238.89| 165,370.21| 32,868.68| |Massachusetts | 1,389,731.76| 740,121.42| 649,610.34| |Rhode Island | 149,800.95| 76,046.78| 73,754.17| |Connecticut | 418,048.99| 312,415.28| 105,633.71| |New York | 3,818,667.45| 2,186,196.21| 1,632,471.24| |New Jersey | 343,192.64| 297,402.18| 45,790.46| |Pennsylvania | 1,734,987.75| 1,135,969.06| 599,018.69| |Delaware | 49,291.11| 45,496.69| 3,794.42| |Ohio | 1,185,718.44| 1,166,145.19| 19,573.25| |Michigan | 550,107.68| 537,012.97| 13,094.71| |Illinois | 1,442,300.26| 1,125,034.22| 317,266.04| |Iowa | 438,636.79| 398,381.21| 40,255.58| |District of Columbia| 123,422.70| 111,746.40| 11,676.30| |Alaska | 316.72| 150.00| 166.72| |Wyoming | 18,086.09| 7,322.37| 10,763.72| | +--------------+-------------+-------------+ | Total |$12,169,792.57|$8,598,477.46|$3,571,315.11| +--------------------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ Here I ask confidently, considering the nature of the Post-Office and the unquestionable importance of encouraging correspondence, if it is just that the letter-writers in one part of the country should be constrained to make the large contribution attested by this table, for the benefit especially of those at a distance, and also of the country at large. Rejecting again all idea of casting this expenditure upon the distant places and the pioneer, I insist that it should be borne by the Treasury rather than by remote letter-writers.