3c Dull Red, Ty. II (11A). Two full margins, slightly in on other sides, tied by "Phila. & Baltimore R.R. Jun. 8" railroad route agent's circular datestamp on Barnabas Bates Cheap Inland and Ocean Postage Propaganda cover to Boston, marvelous design with U.S. Mail steamship, locomotive, eagle and shield, slogan and Bates imprint on back, cleaned, slight wear

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE AND SPECTACULAR BARNABAS BATES "CHEAP INLAND AND OCEAN POSTAGE" PROPAGANDA COVER.

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. He became a Unitarian and established in New York in 1825 a weekly paper called the Christian Inquirer. During the Jackson administration he received an appointment in the New York post office and was for some time acting postmaster. He became an advocate for cheap land and ocean postage and lived to see the 3c domestic rate introduced in 1851

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