January 19, 1861, The New York Herald
Among some of the curious features of the secession movement is the agreement on the part of South Carolina to continue to use the postal service of the federal government for its own special accommodation, while that State is seizing the Post Office, forts, arsenals and Custom House, the property of that government. Mississippi, too, it appears from her secession ordinance, is going to avail herself of the Post office privileges of the country from which she declares herself cut off. For several days past we have been receiving our remittances from South Carolina, and the other seceded States, in postage stamps. The ordinary mode of remitting by draft having become so difficult of late, our neighboring States are using the stamps of the national government as a medium. The mail of one day recently brought us nearly a hundred dollars worth of postage stamps. The secessionists have in fact converted our office into an extensive picture gallery of the patriots of the early days of the republic, containing multitudinous duplicates of the heads of Franklin and Washington.