Defence System Internal Improvements State by R F Stockton (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Scarce. Slim octavo hardcover in dark brown pebbled cloth with blindstamp border and lettered in gilt. The cover title reads "Letters of Commodore Stockton to the New York Evening Post". 48 pp. Cloth at the spine and top edge chipped and worn, internally clean and bright. Stockton rebuts the opinion of a person ("A Citizen of New Jersey" as his communications were signed) that certain charters granted by the New Jersey legislature over some three decades beginning in the 1830s, were monopolistic in nature and therefore unfair and undesirable. Stockton refuted this notion in his own letters to the New York Evening Post, arguing that such grants (he noted that these, rather than unfair monopolies were grants of "exclusive privileges.made for the public good:; in particular he refers to that of the Camden and Amboy Railroad and of the Delaware and Raritan Canal) were vital to the growth of transportation in the Garden State and were in fact rather limited in their scope.