He acknowledges the receipt of his letter with the enclosed letter from James Alphonsus McMaster, requesting that the Freeman's Journal be restored to circulation through the mails. The Post Office Department wishes no other guarantee than the assurance of the proprietor's unquestioned loyalty and that the Journal shall not be devoted to the overthrow of the Constitution and Union and to giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The Union must be preserved and no paper aiding in the destruction of it may be circulated by the department of the government, whose functions it is administering. The best security would be to place its columns under control of an editor whose loyalty and fealty to the Union cannot be impeached. The change of editors is not a condition, provided loyal men furnish assurances that the prayer will be conducted as suggested. This is the minimum requirement for reinstatement since the Grand Jury of the county had excluded the paper. Richardson is at liberty to forward this communication, or a copy of it, to McMaster. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.