Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-09-25

letter from this gentleman, written IN reply W
letter from the Cincinnati committee, appointed at
the meeting Of the citizens OF that place, TO take
some measures relative TO the press oil the True
American Their letter is dated August 27. The
committee inform him that the press is safe and in
sured aud tender him their services in any way in
which they can aid him. His reply is below =
LEXINGTON KY, September 9TH, ls45.
BENJAMIN UrRer, James s. Gldseoe Jacob Ernest,
0frer LoceH, Geo. W. Phillips, X. g. Mitch
eH James Calhoun
Gentlemeu,-I have Just received your letter Of
the 9th ut, enclosing the proceedings Of the citi-
zens of Cincinnati and their resolutions in public
meeting.
Their words Of kindness and generous apprecia-
ton and noble and dignihed avowa have moved
me more than all the studied cruelties and wrongs
OF my enemies, though unnerved by disease
and threatened, for long days and nights, with
horrible death.
thank you that you have not allowed the ca
luminous manifesto Of the reyoutionsis OF the 18TH
of August 10 weaken your confidence IN my loyal
ty to the constitution and laws. thank you, that
you have seen nothing in the past TO cause you to
lose confidence in the future tina, my measures
and means will be "sale, practical snd peaceable."
I thank you that you deem my "work high and
holy" and for the reyerent and soul-susaining in
vocation Of Divine protection on me and on it.
You gentlemen, have taken me upon trust the
time for my defence will come with my re-estab-
lished health when, venture to say, your sentence
will not be revoked by Kentucky and the world"
shall allude TO only charge going the
rounds OF the papers-that there a compromise
between me and the Rebels Of the 18th, and that
l agreed to DISCONTINUE the publication Of the True
American provided they would spare the press 1t
is unnecessary for me to say TO YOU who have seen
my letter addressed TO the meeting as well as my
previous handblls addressed 10 the people that
this story is caumnious and morally impossible
II is enough that the Committee Of Sixty have au-
thorized the Lexington Observer and Reporter 10
state that no such proposition came from me or
any Of my friends This attempt, therefore, TO de-
Grade me- on the part Of those who failed to de-
stroy me, is of piece with this whole outrage of
cruelty and wrong, as shall be able 10 show as
soon as my health will allow.
| hope | shall be able 10 show that am neither
"madman' nor climatic"
They who sent back from Tbermopyle the sub
lime message, go tell il in Lacedemon that we
died here in obedience 10 her laws''-the Roman
who returned to captivity and to death that his
country might be saved-Sydney, Hampden and
Russel-Emmett, who uttered the mighty instincts
of great SOUL 'the man dies, but his memory
lives"-Adams, who exclaimed, "Survive or perish.
am for the declaration" who cried give
me liberty, or give me death'-were all, in the
eyes of these men, ''madmen" and fanatics"
II is necessary that some one should bear the
standard of Liberty into the enemy's camp, and by
doing, whether he stood or fell, this great
nation from the lethargy and death, which have
come over the spirit Of once free people. 1t has
been the policy of wise statesmen in all ages, to
clothe the humblest citizen with the concentrated
power and invioability Of the whole empire. II
was enough for one, amidst the widest barbarians,
to say, 81 am Roman CITIZEN" and he was safe.
No country in Europe is so careful Of individual
and national glory France, the first nation in
Europe; and England few years ago, was ready
TO peril her thirty millions of lives the rescue
OF single subject. 1t cannot, therefore, be less
than madness in the American people, if they ex-
pec long to live nation, aud not to fall an easy
sacrifice to foreign aggression, or internal anarchy
and despotsm TO look coolly on, when even the
humbest of those contending for constitutional lib
erty and national honor, oyerborne and tram
pied down in the battle Surely, that nation can
not live long, far less be free, that Sees time after
time, whatever Of spirit and manly independence
may any where exhibit itself, crushed, and utterly
extinguished.
thank you then and the people Of Cincinnati,
my felow-chzens, men gathered under the same
national Constitution TO which l owo allegiance,
and which owes protection, brothers OF the
same blood, inheriting the same proud recolections
of the past, and looking in the future to the
nseparable destiny, that you have not covered be-
fore the slave power but that you stood by the
ffiendless, the powerless, the fallen, and dared to
speak out for constitutional republicanism and eter-
nal justice, which have been violated in my person.
Above all, am deeply affected by the fact, that
you assembled in mass meeting" without distinc-
ton Of party and both parties here lost in
whelming subservience to slavery, you Of the
free states begin to unite in the defence Of your
own rights and in the cause of national liberty
IL the Wings and Democrats and Liberty men
shall hecnma really what they then ia half