New-York tribune., 1841-11-04
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ierlly assumed, will excuse the least partaIiy
They should be held on higb as am, 50 toar a
just and equal exposure may 'rarn the public OF
their men, and enable midday ambition 10 scan
oy times the steel it NAV have to encounter.
Whether or no shall be Candidate for one foi
the vacant seats in III. Senate OF the nted States
now a, the disposal OF the Legislature OF Tennessee
NAV depend upon more uncertainties than The con
,;ngencv of life itself will OF that score at least
endeayor to measure my ambition ~ the desires OF
those whose political !ortunes-good or bad-slit
me iuiin ely better than yours and whilst | am
free 10 admit tina, majority OF those friends may
command my name, can declare in equal frank
ness, that poor and humble Is | am, my enemies
possess neither power TO deter, wealth nor
honors enough 10 purchase me. The closeness
and the herceness OF the contest may warm nv
courage and stimulate my excrtions but the pride
of success shall never, assure YOU, tempt me TO
violate any sentiment Of propriety.
assert n uncommon sagacity when | profess
to understand the promises, the obligations and the
political attitude 81 every individual member con-
posing the honorable body with whom YOU are
acting. a similar knowedge--lcss acceptable to
Your taste, however than mine-rxci;ed no doub,
the solictude which led you into this extraordinary
correspondence. Without intending to rebuke that
solictude, or without designing nor to churge auy
one of you, any particular member ii yoir po-
Htical family with unworthy attempts upon the un-
snspecting integrity o your brethren OF oppO-
site faith, | seize the occasion declare, solemnly
and publicly, that would not ply the fidelity OF
the humblest among all the representatives of the
people, though my election might hang a vote.
and | could successfully accomplish the foul
duction hope gentlemen, it may be in your
power-all of yoM-to say much in equal and
unieened sincerity.
1t is true, gentlemen as YOU assert. that YOU
stitu;e majority ain the Senate Of the General
Assembly OF Tennessee and consequently hold
the power for two years to come, to enforce the
significant threat which points the last paragraph
of yosr letter. 1t is equally true, that some peo-
Pile have prophesied the execution cf that threat.
hut have been of the number, and am still slow
TO believe in any such purpose. The force Of the
threat does NOT, therefore, annoy me, nor would
its unwise fulillment inlure more than il would
your,elvcs and every other good citizen in the
country. The chief blessings that flow from this
happy government, belong, without distinction,
to ull men of every party, and their loss-if the
tuted hour ever comes--mus, of course be com
mos calamity. As their existence coeval,
their duration can only be co-eXsten with CON
sttution, and that cannot long survive unless The
sacred Injunction OF that glorious instrument
cherished aud obeyed by men Of every polti
cal faith. In the midst OF party in its most maig-
uant forms. have never dcspared OF that Consti-
tuition. Nay, more, gentlemen, though the fiery
demon of faction should break for = seasoN the
chains wherewth reason in its most iorgetful mo-
ments has hitherto bound her down, and stalk
abroad through the land scattering anarchy, dis
cord, and wanton msrule, should not then alto
gelhcr despair.
AS a nation vet too young, and "a peo-
pie too virtuous to disregard the prscepts OF our
forefa,hers, and blndy and forever cas-, away that
rich legacy-the price OF SO much blood and suffer
ing-wherewith they endowed us. The constltu-
ton of which | speaking command, you to elect
two Senators represent and protect the interest
of the nation and YOUR immediate constituents IN
an approaching Congress. At all events, II I'M
poses upon YOU the obligation of faithfully attempt
ing 1 selection; and ardent and determined rs
some ofyou may be in an honest desire to advance
some particular friend at the expense even OF an
indefinite postponement OF the whole question,
there must certainly vet be found OF your number
one man, WIS, nobly looking beyond party 10 his
country and the Constitution, will change that lean
majority OF which you have so lmpfudenty and m
cautiously boosted.
If anv of YOU, gentlemen. are disposed 10 com
plain OF the channel through which these respects
Will first meet YOUR eyes, YOU will find my apo!os;
in the Union of Yesterday. Your letter own-
with many thanks for the act Of especial conde-
sccnsion-was delivered to me in studied aad de-
cant form hy three of it, most distinguished sign
ers but had scarcely time, from other ndispen-
sable vocations, to pas. hurried glance over Its
pases-certsinly no sufficient opportunity 10 CON
sdcr the art or the Just merits Of such an imp5r-
laut communication, before | found It's contents
copied into the columns of q newspaper. By adj
dressing YOU thus through the Intervention OF the
pre:. not only avail myself of the earliest posi-
bic publicity, but have the honor to initiate and
rival high example.
am gentlemen with III due consideration,
Your obeI ent servant.
EPtKaIM II. FOsI Err