Patriotic sentiment is not wanting in this country of ours, and the flag is ever the object of sincere and heartfelt devotion. The great strides in postal development from that day to this should make the pulse of every citizen, particularly every postal employe, great or small, quicken with civic pride as each successive anniversary of our great postal establishment brings the date to mind. Postmasters might well signalize the day by conspicious display of the flag under which such tremendous progress has been made not only in postal affairs but in national greatness and glory. List of Postmasters General _Continental Congress_ Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, July 26, 1775 Richard Bache, Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1776 Ebenezer Hazard, New York, Jan. 28, 1782 _Date of _Presidents_ _Postmasters General_ _State_ Appointment_ Washington, Samuel Osgood, Massachusetts, Sept. 26, 1789 ” Timothy Pickering, Pennsylvania, Aug. 12, 1791 ” Joseph Habersham, Georgia, Feb. 25, 1795 Jefferson, Gideon Granger, Connecticut, Nov. 28, 1801 Madison, Return J. Meigs, Jr., Ohio, April 11, 1814 Monroe, John McLean, Ohio, July 1, 1823 Jackson, Wm. T. Barry, Kentucky, April 6, 1829 ” Amos Kendall, Kentucky, May 1, 1835 Van Buren, John M. Niles, Connecticut, May 26, 1840 Harrison, W. H., Francis Granger, New York, Mar. 8, 1841 Tyler, Chas. A. Wickliffe, Kentucky, Oct. 13, 1841 Polk, Cave Johnson, Tennessee, Mar. 6, 1845 Taylor, Jacob Collamer, Vermont, Mar. 8, 1849 Fillmore, Nathan K. Hall, New York, July 23, 1850 ” Samuel D. Hubbard, Connecticut, Sept. 14, 1852 Pierce, James Campbell, Pennsylvania, Mar. 7, 1853 Buchanan, Aaron V. Brown, Tennessee, Mar. 6, 1857 ” Joseph Holt, Kentucky, Mar. 14, 1859 Lincoln, Horatio King, Maine, Feb. 12, 1861 ” Montgomery Blair, Dist. of Col. Mar. 9, 1861 Johnson, Wm. Dennison, Ohio, Oct. 1, 1864 ” Alex. W. Randall, Wisconsin, July 25, 1866 Grant, John A. J. Creswell, Maryland, Mar. 5, 1869 ” Jas. W. Marshall, New Jersey, July 7, 1874 ” Marshall Jewell, Connecticut, Sept. 1, 1875 ” Jas. N. Tyner, Indiana, July 12, 1876 Hayes, D. M. Key, Tennessee, Mar. 13, 1877