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VERY FINE. A RARE AND ATTRACTIVE BARNABAS BATES "CHEAP INLAND AND OCEAN POSTAGE" PROPAGANDA COVER, WITH THE STAMP TIED BY A GREEN CANCEL.
Barnabas Bates (1785-1853) was born in England and came to the United States as a child. He became a Baptist preacher in Rhode Island, where he was also for some time collector of the port of Bristol under President Adams. Bates became a Unitarian and established in New York in 1825 a weekly paper called the Christian Inquirer. During the administration of Andrew Jackson he received an appointment in the New York post office and was for some time acting postmaster. He became a reform advocate for cheap land and ocean postage, founding the New York Cheap Postage Association, which published this envelope in 1851. (Image)