The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-10
LETTER FROM MR.. FRELINGHUYsEN.

LETTER FROM Mr.. FRELINGHUYsEN.
The Newark Daily Advertiser of Thursday
evening contains a full report of the speeches,
&C., at the great Milestone Convention. We also
find in its columns the following letter from Mr..
Frelinghuysen, read from the Chair:
NEWARK, July IL, 1874.
Dear Sir: have duly received your favor, as
Chairman of the Committee on the subject in
viting me TO Wing Mass Meeting. to be held at
Milestone, in the county of Somerset, on the 9TH
of August next.
| In other circumstances it would afford me great
pleasure to meet my fellow citizens, the neigh
bors and friends of my youth, in my native coun-
~. But the Wing Convention at Baltimore has
placed my name in such relations to the object of
your meeting, that | trust you will excuse nv
absence. ! feel assured that you, gentlemen of
the Committee, and all my whg friends at the
meeting, will find in the occasion of your assem-
blage, satisfactory reasons for the course | have
taken. 0 I
am deeply impressed by sense of the honor
done me in the nomination to the office of Vice
President by such convention of worth, inteIli-
gence and patriotism as met at Baltimore. The
principles of national policy on which their pro-
ceedlngs and choice were based are approved by
my best reflection and judgment, and must COM
mend themselves to all dispassionate consdera-
ton. A Sound Currency, fair Protection to our
own Industry, an equitable Distribution of the
Proceeds OF the Public Lands among its proprie-
tors, and Wakefu jealousy over the Executive
Department of our Government, in the power
and patronage intrusted TO its administration
These are Wing principles; and they are sound,
CONSTITUTIONAL American doctrines
The spirit Of every one Of them may be traced
up 10 the times when England and Holland were
battling for liberty; and through all the past,
whenever the claims of the great community
have been asserted with any interest, it has been
under some of these forms. A good Government,
to meet the ends Of its existence, must secure 10
The fruits Ut labor, whether in the field or the
workshop, reasonable and certain reward. The
pubic lands were earned by common tolls and sac.
rifices, and while it is remembered how largely
New Jersey shared in these, h r sons will Ger.
tany vindlcate the policy that distributes the
proceeds. And in regard to watchfulness over
Executive patronage, who that knows any thing
Of the 4spirings of the human heart, or that has
marked the progress of power does not feel the
importance OF a constant vigilance!
Our illustrous statesman, Henry Clay, has
become such by The faithful and untiring ability,
wisdom, aud ardor iih hch he has, at all times,
with hea and heart, maintained those principles.
Let it, then, animate and encourage US, gentle.
men, Il at in the political purpose of the Wing
party, the peaceful and yet ardent strife is to he
for there great and fundamental principle, and
cannot but cherish the hope hat thA hi and VAL
leys where fathers, under the blessing of God,
successfully bed for liberty, Will witness the sig
nal triumph of their sons in the same cause.
With sentiments of sincere respect. and CRATE
full sense Of your past kindness, | remain
Your freud ard obedi"nt servant.
TtiEO FRELINGHU YSEN. z
THos A. HAKTWELL, Esq.
Chairman II The Committee