Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-09-13

riot by its noble sentiments:
LETTER OF JUDGE PORTER, OF ALABAMA,
Published By request Of the Clay Club Of
Charleston.
TUSCALOOSA, July 26, 1914.
My Dear Sir: Your professional engage
ments employ too much Of your time to
authorize the use of it in mere formal epis-
ties. Yet cannot refrain from the express
sion of my gratulations at the noble stand
! you have taken on the side of our beloved
Union, and her valuable institutions. If
there is asublime spectacle in the world, it
is the intellect OF man eXeItsd in the cause
of good government and public virtue, at
a time when the majority, in the madness
Of political zeal, and in the fury of misguid
| ed, sometimes interested, partsanship, are
devoting to social and personal prescription
every one firm enough to oppose their dis
organizing schemes. Thatpositionis yours.
We know the attachment Of South Carroll
mans to certain men, who, for years con-
nected with public stations in the State,
have grown old in her service and the ai-
fections of her people. We know how
hard it is to make the people believe it pos
sble for such men to err. We know they
are looked upon as too much Of Jupiters
even to nod, and that all station must be
reached through their sanction. We feel
the difficulty Of an independent position
amidst such state Of things, and value
more highly the noble courage which
prompts you to stand boldly forth in the
cause Of your country. Your honorable
defence of the Union has been read by me
to the people Of Alabama and Mississippi
amidst plaudits awakening the reverberat-
ing echoes of our primitive forests. The
scathing reproofs administered to the mad
doctrines of some of your statesmen have
: done service to the whole country, and
laid the people under deep obligations to
your firmness and patriotism. wish had
some magnetic telegraph reaching from
here to Charleston along which, could send
a shake of the hand for your effort before
! the Clay Club. never felt so enthusiastic
, before, because never SO conscious Of right
2 | know my consistency is attacked. | an
ardent in any cause | undertake, and hac
better he inconsistent twenty times thar
r remain in error. | am certain | am righ
. now, for no man can be wrong who is tol
his country against party. In 1882 / was
+ mad with love of South Carolina. only
saw her in difficulty, and espoused he
quarrel. But, heavens! how shudder tC
: think how little we valued the Union then
feel now that to utter the word disunon
to contemplate it, is to commit double
treason. Disunion is the grave of Liberty
And while | love South Carolina, Goo
knows | love the Union more.
A regret to notice how invidiously some
of our friends speak of our brethren of the
v North. These expressions are wholly un
r just. The Northern people neither rob MOI
plunder us. They are generally moral
s industrious, patriotic people, as anxious tC
j preserve the Union and sustain the integri
ty Of our institutions as we are. In sus
tanning measures to benefit them, they 81
certainly as disinterested as ourselves. VIII
oppose measures supposed to iniure. us.
2 have no fear of a people who ey' 'hibit sue
pure morality, such extensiv social in
D provement, such high intel, ,ectuaI power
and I am confident thev would as readil
rush to our support in case of domestic viz
ence as our own People. As for the fe'
: who express Their selves opposed to our dc
y mestlc matters, they are too inconsiderab
y to be though. of. The generous patriotism
OF the North will crush them, without ii
. Interier ence of the South. As to be antic
u patnS disunion, or any general, unjust, {
+ = Unconstitutional action on the part OF tn
u E,orth, on account of such causes, it is VIC
d at(ve Of tie confidence we should not onl
y fnel but express to the Northern people.
l. ieel that tits no dishonor to my native Stat