The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-09-12
THE UNION.


CoNcoRp. lMassachusets,) September 5, 1850.
To the Editor Of the Union
Mr. DEAR SIR Perhaps you would like to hear from
one OF your friends who has strayed away from home and
4 now soeurner among that eutesl and shredss por.
ton Of humanity so aptly designated ~ live Yankees
Yes here am in the good old Bay State. and aimos,
on the very spot where tne lst British blood was sneu
fathers FOR The Independence OF what then denomina-
,sd .these colonies and which proudly desg-
nate !. this broad Unon have been consiaelsoy
here and am happy say that have yet to the hlst
person who in any way favors dissolution OF the
Nay oas wn aSy
abe sacrifice to insure the integrity OF the Union and the
CONSEQUENT perpetuty OF human liberty earth for as
Of mine truly remarked a. speech no ioPse ssS
OF people at New England picnic, think may say
without exagg eration that the whole word-ay, the
peope of this whole earth-are deeply interested IN the
perpeuty OF our glorious republican Institutions, in the
salvation of this Union. and the complete success OF our
experiment OF self-govenment Let i fail here, and
rejoice and the friends OF human freedom-of man un.
trammeed by the shackles OF tyrant's will-wii
mourn in dust and ashes" .
audience, composed Of all political parties and both
sexes Except among few fanatics. who have been led
of by Lloyd Garrison and other leaders OF his stamp
there you may depend no feeling in favor OF disuhion
visited he monument in this town few days since,
erected on the spot where the first British blood was
following inscription:
sHere on the 10Th Of April 776 made the first iorci
BILE resistance to British aggression On the opposite pak
and on this spot the rs Of the enemy fell in the war OF
that revolution which Independence to these United
In gratitude God and love of freedom. this monument
was erected A. d. 1885,
There il stands, in all the simplicity Of plain and en-
during granite, the east bank OF Concord nveran
appropriate monument to the fact recorded
upon it. AS stood at its base and reflected upon the
vast results that have followed the shedding OF the blood
OF two men that spot seventy i've years ago. could
not but believe that our God, whom gratitude Is never
to be forgotten and who BY His providence has brought
Us 70 se hs fR0s phi s saa This
as in the hollow OF His hand" one and ndivsble while
time shall last
Near the monument stands the old parsonage house in
which the gifted Hawthorne resided when he wrote his
beautiful sketches, entitled :. Moses from Old
Manse II is venerable building, and appears SOW al
mos, exactly as be has described in the work above
that the hand OF the naturalist il not the imagination OF
the poet might gather to enrich his portfolio and en-
tighten the minds Of such OF ms iIends ss could go
Those old mosses like ancient seals attached to vener-
able parchments, aesng in the strongest manner tner
antiquity and their TRUTH probably suggested 70 the iee
his book. II was happy thought and most happily has
he carried il out.
honestly confess 10 feelings somewhat akin to poetry
as stood before that .old manse and looked down the
broad avenue which, for than century, the people
of this venerable have been wont to travel, when
desiring to advise or consult with the revered in
whose care they had confded their spiritual welfare.
But if Ie poetry then cannot stop to write now.
even were capable only wish could collect all our
northern fanatics and southern Hotspus on that spot,
with the monument and the old manse" before them,
and have Clay and Webster address them for about
two hours lfthey did depart wiser and better
and with feelings toward this Union entirely changed
from what they now are should be ready confess
that have studied human in vain for nearly half
century, and should be ready to admit that have
kind Providence has so layishly bestowed upon US.
Your friend, b. BF.