The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-25


oeng llue more tisn beast when ne arrives here,
longer ne occupied in his ansmutaton to that condi-
non that enables him properly estimate and appreciate
| the advantages of civil liberty.
africa, with It's Carthage, its Thebe and its Alexandria,
once he seat OF art science, and OF learning in the
deep darkness oil ignorance and superstition; and, with
he wsandefings OF my imagination, have often coniem-
ae wi' The fruits OF the knowledge gathered from those
VINO 1a mem IN bondage and IN the mighty workings Of
that awise Providence whose Lifetime is eerniy shall
ron poA upon their native land mighty Hood oil intellect
| Intelligence, and civilization
And you should remember too, that slavery is a social
man political EVIL and At is very improper TO use,
or 10 desire TO USE the democratic party Tor the eradication
neh9clato National Conventions of 1870 4is TO which
Mr an buren, subscribed in lSiO is that slavery is mat
yer ehuey under the control OF the States where IL
ists and is matter in which the people of
h0ang States have no right or business to interfere
IN rehhsyvana slavery is forbidden by of assem-
bly, ana may exist again whenever legislature fit
ePGa mar ACT and suppose the same state of things
Tor the passage of an idle proviso that slavery shall exist
IN any territory Of the United states south Of line
the Union out of the territory may establish slavery
oy LePenS or enacng an act OF assembly For il is well
fundamental laws OF State they being entirely and ex
cl3vs a In the people who compose the State.
New York There is, for instance, the political evil
Oh paper money-banking call it political evil. be-
by force aud virtue of these laws cunning few ena
bled 10 manufacture rags and amp-black money for
ue especial use and benefit oil those who labor.
You have what is called the safety Fund" system of
banking, OF which your great chief Mr. Van Buren,
OF Albany, which failed day since having some
three hundred thousand dollars of its false promises in cir
culation.
And then you have the Stree BankingH system which,
perhaps Is well named for by it the bankers enabled
convention at Utica. To this system belong the Atlas
pahk ana several others that failed some months ago,
ing considerably more than they had means TO pay.
Is serious evil created and sustained by the laws
States often suffer severely for very large amount the
notes OF the broken banks of State are to be found In
the democrats of State calling democratic conventions
70 abolish the paPermoney banks of New York Nor do
state siy enough offer Proviso to territorial govern
en ol that neither banks nor paper money shall ever
exist IN any territory of the United States"
And there is another which may be properly term
ed social than political evil allude to the feuda ten
held Which have given rise to those anti rent disturbances
for which New York has become OF late so proverbia
sets bad example to those among who do want
pay rent and greves your sherfs murdered
and your farmers spending their lives in
Suppose tack proviso to of Congress- that
the Territories of the United States and call convention
abolish all rents for lands tenements in the State of
which we have business, except that may be
cused for complaining little when happen to be plum
deed by one shocked by the atrocities consequent
the other.
The democratic party to which and profess to be-
Il ne if it would und
not if it could, interfere in local disputes waste its
energies IN attempting to remove local political evils but
acting under its broad motto of the greatest good of the
greatest NUMBER, il must nominate its candidates and
shape its action with single eye the great and prom
nen interests of the nation at large, and with view to the
preservation and support OF those Invaluable institutions
which fathers much blood and treasure.
cannot, therefore, join with you in what believe to be
unhoy crusade against portion of the people of
Unon VINO went heart and hand with achieving the
great victory OF glorious revolution, and in laying the
foundation of free government and free nstutions-a
crusade in opposition the advice of the immortal Father
OF his Countyhat will engender Strife contention, and
anger and that may array IN bloody strife brother against
brother, and son against father.
But shall in the ranks of that party that has
given glorious Union Presidents Jefferson Madison
Monroe, Jackson-and Polk and shall continue my
humble influence in aid of its and its men, and
shall for my share of the festivities and ejocings
that will follow the triumphant of Cass and Butler
at the ensuing election.
Very respectfully, yours,
ANDREW MILLER.
To InuN and fnersc