Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-04-19
from the NJ y. Evening Post.
Letter from John Brown.
JERSEY Ferry, March 2G, 1851.

JERSEY FERRY, March 90, 1851.
There is about as much trouble among
the Silver Grays aud Cotton Whgs this
week us they can contain. Four special
messengers hive passed between Washing
ton aud the Custom House since SUNDAY
morning. For more than fourteen hours al.
ter the report OF the Asior House dinner
reached the capitol, Saturday evening, Fill
more refused to eat and Webster refused to
drink. The cause of extraordinary deranre-
ment in the habits of the President and his
virtuous Secretary, will briefly explain, rs
1t was explained by one who convinced me
before hc got through, that he was not born
tomorrow.
You have observed that the President and
his evangelical adviser, have taken unceas-
ing pains TO marshal the vast commercial in
iluence of New York city into support of
the compromise measures, and of the adj
mnisiraion that advised them. That was
perfectly natural. An object nearer their
hearts, however, than this was 10 break the
back of Governor Seward. Hence the Un-
ion Safety Committee was organized under
their advice; hence the whig general aud
local committees OF tins city were required
TO denouncc him in the same breath in
which they sustained the government; hence
the Instructions sent to Beeklnan to bolt Fish,
and the npprobatory letter afterwards sent TO
him by Clay 10 keep him firm hence the
repeated declarations of Beekman and the
administration press, that lie was sustained
in his opposition to Fish by his constituency;
that New York would have no person for her
Senator who should consent to discuss any
of the peace measures of the late Congress,
or TO have them discussed. Ii was great
consolation to the President, amid the de.
iection of all the rural districts and with mn
overwhelming minority against him in the
Legislature, to be able TO point to the city Of
New York, and feel that there was at lcnst
one place in his own State, to which he
could go and hear his policy aud his cab
met spoken Of with decent respect. And he
has made much Of it,
No part Of the country was permitted to be
ignorant of, or to forget the fact, that the
wings of New York city would except q q.
States Senator even from Manhattan, who
was an equivocal supporter of the peace
measures, or that they had rebuked Seward
and rejected Fish. When, however, in
spite of Beekmon, and Mr.. Clny's invigorat-
ing letter. Fish was elected, the disappoint-
ment was intense, and the chagrin unuttera-
BILE but that was nothing to the intelligence
received but three or -four days afterwards,
that this loyal city of New York. with 10y.
al Mayor aud loyal Common Council, had
invited that very Legislature, which so re-
Gently had perperaled the enorInty of elect
ing woolly-head 10 the United States Sem
ate, TO come down aud be the guest of the
city, as long as they pleased, aud at an ex-
pense of not less than eight or ten thousand
dollars to the city treasury.
But il took more than this to throw Fill
more off bis feed, and Webster of his drink.
1t was not till they read the proceedings at
the dinner Saturday night, that they abso-
lutely refused to be comtorted. When they
found Seward the prominent guest and speak
CT of the occasion, and Weed, and Raymond