The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-25
To ANDREW MILLER, of Philadelphia.

PHLApEL July IL, 1s4s.
GENTLEMEN Your letter, dated New York, July T. 1913.
inviting o be present at, and to address meeting to
be held the Park the city of New York, Tuesday,
pose OF raying the nomination of Martin Van Buren, for
the presidency and OF contributing to the extension OF Tree
and the pepetuation of free labor received
ereay by due course of mail; and have time to be
your meeting and no disposition to address it in
, address Few words Of advice and
in regard to political notions and the course you have
had previously learned from the newspapers that Mr..
Van Buren, had been nominated for the presidency, by
convention held in Utica in your Staea prominent ac-
in the getting of which his eldest johns but
have not any account OF his acceptance that nom
nation and did not, until the receipt OF your letter. be-
eve that he was really candidate for that honorable and
But letter sets all doubts at rest and develops the
fact that Martin Van Buren, is again before the people Of
the United States candidate for the presidency and is
text that he is in favor OF tree soil and free labor
the remark, that there many swaps and changes
politics. that hardly keep the run OF them ;" and
the late es USa, b, Martin Van b
In 1885, Mr. Van Buren-then Vice President OF the Uni
President of the Senate, casting vote in favor Of
that required posmasters In the southern States TO exam
a ns aeersd uh them der any that
thing the subject OF slavery
earnest suggestion, voted admit the State of Arkansas
the Unon although its constitution provided for the
In his inaugural address, delivered March A. 1897 lie said
that he went the presidential chair the uncomprom-
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and no bill for
that purpose could receive his approval and that he
would equally resist attempt to abolish in the States
where it existed.
This was an extraordinary proceeding his part-he
subject having been referred TO in All inaugural ad'
dress by any President before or since.
And in 1882 when party OF negroes were taken in the
Spanish schooner AmsIad, and in the custody OF the
u s. marshal for the district Of Connecticut, awaiting the
issue of before the United States district court for
that district involving the question OF their liberty MI
Van Buren, issued order the marshal directing HIM
to take them out custody the court and place them
on board Of a U. S. vessel OF war
1t is difficult imagine an act more at variance with
every principle of justice than this last one and DISPOSE
ton play the sycophan to the pro-slavey men OF the
SOUTH is universally set down as the motive for it.
bold relief the pages OF our counys history he cuts
sorry figure in appearing before the people OF the
United States the foremost champion OF Tree soil and Tree
labor.
And why permit ask is all this clamor about the
abolition of negro slavery flor, although you sail under
this your object Can not see in the signs OF the
times the gradual certain extinction OF that social evil
slightly impeded Of atc true, by the mlsdongs OF some
''whose zeal is not according to knowledge"
Ii is about centuries since the first OF the African
race brought TO shores. They were then what
they still their native CONFERENCE.-The, puny eff
Terminate creatures; scarcely better than brues and al
most without mind intellect. Now, even those in bond
age are robust athletic, and many OF them Intelligent and
intellectual human beings and the last census exhibited
the fact that million OF them were Tree, and as lar
the advance towards intelligence and civilization cir
cumstances will admit Of And is 1t unreasonable, while
they progressing from the Ignorance and barbar
cation which they ultimately Destined that they
should for time be fastened that soil that clohes com
os and supports them, and gives them an impetus to that
destined state OF intelligence and civilization
There is in State, and have no doubt in yours,
class of who voluntarily left their native country and
for a time became bondsmen, in order that they might
ultimately enjoy the advantages OF our Tree and equal IN
stutions and many of this class of now uselu
and worthy citizens And it is unreasonable that the