The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-08

You and myself my dear sir belonged party in
State accused, unusty accused. of dlsatiecon to the
Union Fifteen years have elapsed since our contest oc
CURED on the great question of free trade with the gene
raj government certainly had my full share OF respon-
sbty IN those events to which you refer IN terms OF SO
much kindness and compliment assure you tnat II !
concuued IN the compromise BY which those d1culues
composed and for which the country owes SO large
a debt OF gratitude 10 Mr. Clay and Mr.. Calhoun am
no less anxious now that spirits equally gifted and
blessed may arise, who may have the power TO stay
the coming storm, and give 10 the country once more
me rainbow OF peace and hope" But i Is IN yam ~,
evils as porientous IN their magnitude as they seem
TO be lncurable in their acrmony. trust that these
are but gloomy iorebodinss that have no real exist,
ence except in over-exced anxeties. ! wish that !
could participate in the confidence OF others; but when
such man Daniel Webster, with his large in
eilec ms cordially avowed attachment to me Union,
essentially man of peace, ntimated on the last day OF
the last session OF Congress, and distinctly lnlinated'
that the free States would give ground even al the
hazard OF I'm his opnon) the last and greatest calamity
which be al country it high time for us to
ask whether lce will give ground We who are not the
aggressive but the aggreved partywho are entitled to
all the common benefits rights, and privileges OF this
Unon--we who could only surrender them with base
ness and cowardce which would set us up as mark IN
the future history OF the world for its eternal conumey
and scorn and this, too, to be submitted to by people
essentially military in their instincts any that God
has created with all the apttudes for war: who
find safe seat the back of the widest horse OF the
prairie; whose hands the deadly rifle never commits
one error or mistake.
Ii is time, however that drew this long communica
ton 10 close. cannot do so without turning win nlla
affection TO the State of my birth To South Carolina
standing she does untouched by reproach, and unfair
nshed by dshonor-the remembrance OF my connexions
both private and public, with her often unbidden
to my memory to remind me that II is in such recollec-
tons seem, amidst all the and mlsiortunes OF
this world, o part of the forgotten value OF
existence" know not, my dear sir, what fate may be
in for her; whether, if the crisis does come to
which have scarcely than alluded she destined
stand alone or with her Southern confederaes to
breast the coming storm but there thing that do
know that she has not son, however separated from
her by the most distant, by mountains the most IN
accessible, who would not hasten to her with an eager
and uepressibc loyalty.
II i'll becomes among the humbest but once
among the most favored of her children, to say what
would be his duties in such crisis, himself in compare
tive exile
think, if know my own heart, should draw
to the bosom of my 'paent and" that | might feel the
pusaons of her noble heart and the sympa-
hes of her glorious people When, therefore, she calls
upon her sons saddIe up, if there among them
who has his foot in the srup sooner than myself he
must rise before the settn, OF the morning star, and
sharpen his sabre by the midnight lamp Let Iemem-
her, my dear sir, hat the duties of life than
life"
Accept in conclusion, the assurances of the great
and respect with which am your friend and obedi
ent servant,
]. HAMILTON.