The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-07-02
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From tie Cincinnati Gazette.
John w. TayIor.-Interesting Letter,

while a Representative of the Saratoga
District Of New York. An able and in
duStrious man, Mr.. Taylor was diStin-
guished as an efficient and influential
member of Congress. He also filled
with credit many places Of trust in his
own State. Several years since while
in the discharge of his duties as a mem
Ter ofthe Court of Errors, then in Sess-
ion in New York, he was struck with a
paralysis, under the effects of which he
is still suffering. He was removed to the
residence of daughter in Cleveland,
where he still remains, suffering much,
and unable to move without assistance.
We visited him q few days since, and
were agreeably surprised at the vigor Of
his mind, under the severe and prOtrac-
ted suffering and confinement he had en-
dured. Feeble as he was, his mind was
active, and when the presence Of al old
friend induced the recollection of trans
actions bearing upon his country's well
fare, in which he had taken an active
part, his c%ountenance frightened, and
his eye flashed as old, and, though with
great effort he spoke of those events with
evident feeling and great anxiety for his
beloved country. He regarded himself
as on the brink of the grave, and cannot
be suspected of any ambitious views,
yet the welfare and honor, and the best
interests ofthe country are neorhis heart,
and the dangers attending our political
and other institutions are contemplated
with deep interests, and the strong feel
ing of patriotism. MI. Taylor was a
leading man in the National Councils in
times Of great difficulty, and has done
much to establish free institutions, and to
secure the blessings of liberty to his
countrymeu. He was ofthe old Repub-
Ilican party, q firm and active supporter
Of Mr.. Madison's Administration, Of the
war Of 1912, and of all the measures to
encourage and protect the industry ofthe
people against foreign competition. He
was opposed to Slavery. and to meas
ures for extending and perpetuating the
institutions, or its direct or indirect infu-
ence. He was an earnest, Jealous advo-
cate of the Missouri restriction.
The letter below was written by Mr..
, TAYLOR to All intimate friend, a few
weeks since, and was not designed to be
I made public. 1t speaks of the present
wal with Mexico as aggressive, and
. brought on by the President in violation
of the constitution. His friend desired
to spread the judgment Of this old, well
tried and experienced friend of the coun
try, upon this war, before the people, as
. the sober judgment ofone standing on the
"verge Of the grave" and he asked Mr..
Taylor's permission to publish the letter
In the reply. permitting the publication
Mr.. Taylor says: -,
S Whatever | wrote was written with
s out q doubt Gifts truth; and the facts, i
! useful to promote the cause Of freedom
and free labor, should not be withheld
Great efforts are making to magnify ant
+. consolidate the political power of the
slaveholding interest. l would rob it o
no constitutional right. In 1916, re
ioicod to find my most ardent friends il
Congress, uniting cordially and efficient!
with the advocates offree labor in estab
J, fishing the American system. Alas tina
, this union was over disturbed. There i!
> much objection to slavery in principle
5 but its practical hostility to free Ameri
can labor makes it especially odious il
our Union. The vote of Texas agains
free labor, at the expense of her own in
~;erests, more than any thing else, ha
reused me, on the brink Of the grave, ant
recalled my struggles against the malig
|, nantinAuence of slaveryin by.gone years
l commenced my professional life by res
cuing from slavery a free man, enamel
pated by the New York law, in conse
~quence of his master having attempted t
send him for sale to q Southern market
All that the constitution and law give
the master he shall have; but not conten
he usurps, while talking Of equality, an
IS has actually won, by threats of disunioI
: If political power unauthorized by the col
II stitution. But what can dol Palsie
o. from head to foot, and loathing food, tn
IS, coming battle must be fought by you an
:, your peers. after l get the discharge fc
is Is which l anxiously look. This note is wri
RI ten to suggest the %expediency of maxim
e. any use deemed proper of the facts re
IL. called in my letter o flast month, withol
giving prominence to my humble nam
er The leading facts are on record, an
60 known to tho survivors of the 18th an
10Th Congresses. ! shrink from no nee
full responsibility, but from the appea
ance Of seeking notoriety. In the WI
he ofIs12 l stood liable for a military Sc
vice in support of a war, the justice
in which l advocated in the New York Lei
ee ~islature and in Congress, having volul
D. teered before my election, under the a
rs for a detachment of 100000 men, in col
in. sequence of the attack on Chesapeake
10, We now give the letter, as publishe
in the Boston Atlas, and bespeak for it {
attentive perusal.
90 CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 18th, 1S47.
$50 Hon. CHARLES HUDSON
100 Dear Sir:-Continued infirmityhas d
layed thanks for the considerable kindne
I, which has relieved my solitude, by yo
zee speech on the 5000, 900 bill, read and r
: read with entire appreciation and plea
ure. Inthe 18th and 10th Congresses
when my efforts to arrest slavery in M
souri, and Arkansas were defeated
an doughfaces, the result was deeply deplC