The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-09-30
Letter r.om sir, mareh.sa,

The following letter from our representative Mr.
Morehead, to a gentleman in this city, has been
handed US for publication, and viii be read with
interest by his numerous friends in Kentucky
Lt1ington Odsarer and Reporter.
House OF REPREsKNTATIrys. Scrt. 10. 1857.
MY DEAR Sir: received your kind letter of the
goth ult., and should have answered il imme-
dately but for the engro5slng nature of my duties
during the tendency of the dstracting questions
which have just been 50 happily settled. sup
posed that my constituents were SO well acquainted
with my general sentiments upon all these ques
tons, as not TO require from me any explanations.
took an early occasion t. give my views at large,
and my whole course has been well known here,
that tlattered myself it could not be misunder-
stood at home At perhaps the darkest period
through which we have passed, after the Compro-
mise bill of the Senate had been defeated, and
when II was obvious to the most casual observer
that djustnent could be effected without greater
unanlmlty IN the South a caucus was proposed To
produce this end. | attended il, and have seen
reason whatever TO regret it. l know, what
perhaps you do not, that much good resulted from
this meeting. Factious opposition by the calling
OF the yeas and nays, and other parliamentary tao
tics, was put down, and tho cause of peace and
harmony strengthened committee raised
with the view OF adopting some common basis OF
action, and my name placed on that committee.
From its composition had but little hope Of agree
ing with them, and never attended their meeting.
In the caucus voted against all their resolutions
but one, and9that lvoted for in the House. without,
however, making II or ever intending TO make II
an ultimatum. ladmit TO the fullest extent my
responsibility for every vote may have given while
here upon these or any other questions, and would
be panied TO believe that had in any instance mis-
represented the feelings and wishes OF my constiu
ents. / cannot, however, agree that any one has
right To complain of my holding counsel with those
having a common interest with me. IL am iit to
be the representative of freemen, may be allowed
10 interchange opinions with whomsoever please,
without rendering myself obnoxious to the censure
of any. ] have never hcsitatCd TO proclaim upon
all suitable occasions that my interests and feel
al., a.,ll
States, but IL has been the habiual feeling which
have cherished from my earliest youth 10 look up
on the North, South, East and West, one com
mon country, bouno together by ties which trust
in God may never be severed. During the whole
unhappy controversy, in which We have been
long engaged, il is my solemn conviction, that the
section TO which we are attached has been most
clearly in the right, and justice and the right have
at last prevailed.
The ultr aism Of the North and South had brought
this great nation to the very brink of an awful pre-
cpce, but the moderate, conservative, Union-lov-
ing West came 20 the rescue and kentucky and
Tennessee, lying eide by side, governed by conf
mon interest, aud actuated by the same patriotic
impulses, without distinction ol party, gave unan
irnous for the great measure of pacihcation
They vindicsted tbs theory of the General
Government, that its powers should never be
brought into hostile action against the property of
any section. They established the great doctrine
Of intervention as heretofore understood, which
in my judgment is the only true and safc doctrine
for the South, and, may add, for the Union. For
this have Struggled with unwavering fidelity un-
Ill It's final triumph. The separate measures con-
posing the adjusunen! bill Of the Committee OF rhir
teen Of the 5, nate have all been passed and re-
ccivcd the sanction OF the President. was Tor them
jointly, and voted for them siugly From the be-
ginning 10 the end in the House and out Of the
House, in caucus and out of caucus, every feeling
aud impulse of my heart were enlisted in their be
half.
/ saw and felt that were in the midst Of fear
ful crisis. ! believe with unshaken. conviction
that the Union itself IN imminent peril. II the
madness OF the ultras, North aud South, had ruled
the hour, the hand of brother would have been
lifted against brother, and this fair heritage Of ours
J been drenched in the blood of its Thank
Cod the danger has been ayerted II the parrici-
dial arm of disuniOn was prepared TO strike the
blow, IL - ncrvclcss. The heart OF the patriot
s relieved of the oppressive weight Of eight months
of anxiety and solcitude, and again leaps for JOY
that We are TO continue united people. The dark
angel of discord had long hovercd over us but its
fell spirit has been chased away, and once trou-
bled sky is now spanncd with the bow Of prumise
and peace. There is still patriotism enough, North
and South, TO cherish this glorious Union OF ours
with common affections, ani TO make all sacrifices
which freemen ought TO make TO perpctustc IL.
Sincerely aud truly yours,
d G =. MOEEHEAD.