The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-12-08

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From the tenor Of your letter. should infer that. il
| from me- Il was doubtless extended and Withdrawn in
thai spirit simplicity Of which you profess
yourself the propulsion You have not so1dsd what dis
position you design to make Of your cherished fund Of
"simPiiefy whether you intend TO hoard it with mi,
serly affection, 81 to transfer portion Of ~ with lavish
iberay. for other uses From your threatened disclo
sures. however, am led to infer the latter have no
wish 10 interfere with you in the legitimate exercise OF
your rights touching the disposal Of your property
Whether you use i in the menaced disclosure Of pre-
tended facts against me- your language would
imply or IN support OF your coadutor in the OF
nuyfeat,on, Is matter OF indifference to II the
former challenge and defy your disclosures! II the
each other. They are happily welded together, and
not to pc put asunder and happily too as cannot
De doubted the support will outlive the course, and may
You pretend to compare the nuers Of the South with
the whigs of the revolution From this dissent can
Ss nss1s y
days q our fathers and contemn the presumption and
deny the justice Of your comparison. The wings Of the
revolution sought to establish the union OF the States
upon mpefshable basis The nuiii6ers seek to de-
stroy that Union. In this, their efforts directly OPP
posed 70 the efforts Of those with whom they claim like
ness II between the former and the latter there exist
any simarites in point Of principle or object It is be-
cause they differ, not because they agree COMPARE
son instituted between the aboiitions and the nu6ers
would have been just since prominent object of
each is the same, viz. the dissolution Of the Union
Hence il is not strange that the notorious Garrison and
ohers-his colleagues in the cause Of abotionshould
express sentiments SO favorable 10 Mr.. Calhoun and his
principles, and hail the cratic pursued by that
gentleman as sure sign OF the approaching destruction
! of our confederacy.
martyr to the Of independence contained in your
letter, cannot but be regarded IN such eonnsron, as
peculiarly unfortunate You pleased to intimate that
be ignorant OF his history, since il comes within
the scope OF common school education" To his
memory and to myself, cannot but acknowledge the
eonnsrion and the nnaton which you have thus orig
nat ali lxa IL
position, II was that OF commissioned that OF dWnion
ist With other patriots of the revolution he united in the
manence Of the Union. To defeat that establishment
the efforts OF the tories of that day strenuousy
directed those Of the nsrs and aboonists Of the
ciuson from the Character and history Of VoUr naotc
ancestor it would be that could he revisit earth, he
would regard the labos Of his distinguished descendant
to annihlate the great work to the successful achieve
of which he sacrificed his life as rejecting but lit
tie credit on his memory.
In my humble judgment, the course pursued by Mr.
Calhoun and the aboonists tends to the same end So
far they coworkers and confedeates. Could their
designs be accomplished the end would be the desruc-
ton OF the Union and the degradation Of the country
less demagogues-from the enjoyment Of liberal insitu-
tons and the government Of free people, condition
OF anarchy, weakness, and civil commotion.
moon-sruck the air built theories OF the abstrac
tioni for myself perceive cause to apprehend
the reality or approach of forthcoming evils to the people
number OF fanatics nhabtng the north-amounting,
fully ascerained to not more than tUeneh part
OF our ctzens-entertain feelings Of irrational and
phTenzed hostility TO the domestic institutions of the
South Are southern rights and southern institutions
in any real danger OF subversion or invasion, from
such source, when it is well known that the vast
majority OF our northern brethren as much op.
posed TO the principles and measures advocated by
those fanatics, as the people OF the South them
selves Such is the existing reay-such the true con-
southern address, and you, as his auxiliary. would aiA
justify yourselves In misguided attempt to array the
entire South against the entme North in attitude Of
armed uncompromising hostility The phantom OF sup
posed DANGER and OF prognoscaed evils conured up BY
the distempered fancy OF Mr. Calhoun, is by its a-
southern convention, with view devise measures Of
SECESSION and, by way OF peaceful remedy, dissolution
OF the coniederacy, as was projected in 1882
The cause OF notification will, beyond doubt meet its
former fate, and be again consigned TO the nglor
nudity in which il then sought shelter from the in.
dignan voice OF the nation, and from the lesson" then
man 10 whom, suppose you allude under the figure OF
the dead iiona lesson at least effective as that which
you 50 kindly proposed TO read to me-,
the figure referred you did not intend apply to the
memory Of Gen. Jackson, for you are a living monument
Of his favor, kindness. and generosity You his
her weakly child, viz: because Otherwise il could not
live, he peed and sustained you, aiding you until he
had secured you the place think Of inspector general
honors, he cast the mantle OF his friendship around you
but the charm was not sufficient TO resist the power OF
your talented opponent Did you not return 10 South
Carolina and unite with his revilers'
was friend TO Gen. Jackson, and was faithful in my
attachments but he had il in bis power TO confer
favor me, beyond his friendship and that am happy
in believing retained until his last hour Had he served
me TO the same extent he did Others l. too-nfoenced
by that popular quality, gyaffude-migh have become
nuher as TO the obligations under which should thus
have been placed towards him.
With him concur in the opinion that our glorious DO
ston among the nations OF the earth depends upon The
involabiIIiy of the Union Of the States And whatever
calculated 10 weaken impair the strength of that
whether arising from the ncendary violence OF abolition
ISIS or from the coalition OF Dullherswil ever meet
with my unqualified disapprova
You say that you "proiess reverence or love for
government which refuses all its promises and becomes
in the hands OF fanatics and fools an instrument OF OBJ
preston, and not protection" With such sentiment as
an abstract proposition, do not find fault but IL you in.
will not accuse you Of design at once 30 disgraceu and
dsgusing)-if such is your deliberate intention then
deny the applicability Of the sentiment IN oto and regard
its intended use with feelings Of unqualified pity and con-
tempt
In the resolutions adopted by your convention refer
ence made TO the proposition introduced into Congress
for slaves TO vote in The District Of Columbia and this
f,ons Of me advehoding States Can any reasonable man
regard this IN any other light than the act OF fanatic
abotonst, or made Tor the purpose of realiains
insults heaped upon the whoie NORTH by incorporate
and sweeping denuncatons, too often uttered by few
utras OF the South never did, nor can now other
wise regard It, None in the North excepting compare.
lively small class OF agators, consisting OF men with
speak OF interfering with slavery in the States Sweep
assertions ,,n,