The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-01
a LETTER FROM MIR. WEBSTER.

The following letter from Mr.. Webster, to the
Committee of Invitations for the Tyler Dinner of the
22d, was received too late for insertion along with
the published proceedings of yesterday Phil Ing,
WAsnINGroN, Feb. 18th, 1912.
Gentemen--It would give me much pleasure to
Join you in your proposed commemoration OF the
birth day of Washington, but public duties deprive
me of that satisfaction.
Every revolving year, evinces, more and more
clearly, the wisdom, and virtue, and patriotism OF
that ustrious man and instead of offering you any
sentiments of my own, to be announced at your cee-
braon, will you allow to transcribe paragraph
from his Farewell Address
"The unity of Government which constitutes you
one people, is also dear to YOU 1t is justly so,
for it is main pillar in the edihce of your real indie
pendence, the support of your tranquility at home,
your peace abroad of your safety of your prosperity
of that very liberty, which you SO highly prize But
it is easy to foresee that from different causes and
from different quarters, much pains will be taken,
many articles employed to weaken in your minds
the conviction of this truthas this is the point in
your political fortress, against which the batteries of
internal and external enemies will be most constant
y and actively, Though often coverty and insidlous
ly) drectedit is Of infinite moment that you should
properly estimate the immense value OF your national
union to your collective and individual happiness
that you should cherish cordial habitual, and I'M
movable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves
to think and speak of it, palladium OF your POI
tca safety and prosperity watching for ITS preser-
walton with Jealous anxiety; dscountenancng what
ever may suggest suspicion that 1t can In any
event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon
the first dawning of every attempt to ALLEVIATE any
portion of country from the rest, or to enfeeble
the sacred ties which now link together the various
parts:N
There is no one of these sentiments, gentlemen,
which does not enter into my convictions and sink
deep in my heart They have constituted, and, so
long live will constitute the principle of my po
itcal conduct whether in public or private life. If
we maintain these sentiments-if we can keep
their Judgment high, secure and mistaken, in the
affections of the American people, we need not fear
that patriotism and good counsels will bring the coun
try triumphantly out of all difficulties, and carry it
onward in its bright of prosperity and renown
But if these sentiments shall be abandoned, there
will come consequences, amidst which know not on
what plank patriotism may hope to stand, for its last
effort or how the voice of the wisest counsels may
lexpect to be heard, above the bowling of the storm
Your invitation ntimates, gentlemen, that the
company will be composed of the friends of Pres-
dent Tyler's Administration. Of that Administra-
ton its character, its purposes, or its hopes of
cess, it may become me to say little. In the events
which have happened, and amidst the circumstances
which surround it, it asks one thing from the Amer-
can people and that is, fair trial. If they will
protect against the effects of unjust denuncaon in
advance and Judge of its merits or dement's, they
may be disclosed in the sequel il will have no right
to complain, and so far | am concerned will not
complain, of the final judgment of the country.
Let il be judged by its measures-by the degree of
care it shall manifest to maintain the honor and inte
rest of the United States in their foreign relations
BY the disposition it shall evince towards reasonable
provision for public Defence on the land and on the
water by its recommendations the great subjects
of revenue and finance; by its cooperation in all
practicable means of retrenchment and reform; by
its impartial regard to all interests and all parts of
the country; and, above all, by its remembrance or
its forgetiulness of the solemn admonition of him
whose ever-gorous name and services you common
crate, that the main pillar Of our independence, pro-
perry, and happiness will be found to be that
g Unity Of Government ,chich constitutes people"
am, gentlemen,
| Your obliged friend and feow-citizen,
DANIEL WEBSTER