American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-06-23

time to promote that great political blessing.
With sincere esteem, we are your friends and
obedient servants, 23 @a
z. Collins Lee, Geo. E. Sangston, Alexander
D. Kelly, M. O'Brien, George w. Grafiin, VIM.
Woodward, VIM. D. Townsend, VIM. A. Loney,
VIM. H. Ryan, Francis D. DUNCAN, Thomas c..
Watkins, George F. R. Waesche.
.laaop WASHINGTON June 20.
TO Messrs. a. Collins, George e. Sangston, Aler-
ander d., Kelly, &C. .g.,s u- .....
GENTLEMEN: With feelings of the warmest
gratitude have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your kind favor of the 18th instant
accompanied by most beautiful and substan-
tial Walking Cane, as evidence of your regard
for me, and the high estimation in which you
hold my humble efforts in behalf of the Union.
1t affords me, gentlemen, unfeigned pleasure
to assure you that my admiration of this glo-
rious Union, and my firm and unwavering at
tachment to those who are ever ready with
their I" lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor" to defend it until the last beacon-light
of liberty shall be extinguished, and the last
sentinel upon the watch-tower of freedom shall
expire, has grown with my growth, strengthened
with my strength, and increased with my years.
! most sincerely trust that around the names
and memory of those gallant and patriotic
spirits, who led the Union army to victory and
to triumph, may be gathered in clusters of
ample profusion, all the honors that grateful
nation can confer; and may those editors of
public journals throughout the land who daily
disgorged the blazing magazines into the ranks
of the enemy, never want for that liberal pa
tronage which it is in the power of this Govern
ment to bestow. look upon dissolution Of
this Union with horror-from its contemplation
my mind shrinks back appalled,, dismayed; and
al.a
in magnitude, and far more numerous than
those contained in the tabled Pandora's Box
see everything beautiful and lovely married
and destroyed. / see every thing green and
prosperous wither and decay. see grim-visaged
war ssyoking the red Dragons of his fiery
Chariot preparatory to his desolating march.
/ see tyranny and despotism, rife and rampant
unmolested, stalk around the world. l see
liberty and freedom leave the earth, and upon
the viewless winds" return to Heaven again;
and he who expects to find them here, as much
disappointed as he who seeks for mellow grapes
beneath the icy pole, or blooming roses on the
cheek of death, or substance in q land of feet
ing shades.
The man who would directly or indirectly,
under any pretence whatever, dissolve this
Union and uproot our present organization,
in my humble judgment, is the veriest monster
that walks upon the face of this green earth.
Tophet, in its volcanic eruptions, never threw
up upon the surface q fouler spirit than that of
disunion it should be kicked out ut the back
door of public contempt, and rolled into the
filthy gutter of universal detestation and abhor-
renee 1t would be well for the disunionist il
his name could be forgotten-blotted out from
the recollection of his fellow mortals and sunk
into oblivion's dark profound. But this is q
privilege which he has denied himself, having,
with his piratical hands, placed the mark OF
Cain upon bis forehead, and entwined around
his brow evidences of unfading infamy.
It cannot be denied that our Union has been
in danger, in imminent peril, :" hair hung and
breeze shaken" Ger the gulf of dissolution.
Fierce was the contest, long the struggle, and
doubtful the issue, until there appeared sud
denly upon the stage President Fillmore, with
his unrivaled Cabinet, who, with skilful hands
and spirits undaunted, hoisted the foodgates OF
their influence, and came down with force ms
irresistible as the Falls of Niagara, the revebe-
ration of whose laundering artillery was heard
throughout the land, scattering to the four
winds Of Heaven the army of the disunionists.
We have great cause for congratulation, and
our hearts should overflow with gratitude to
the Author of every "good and perfect gift,
that our country is now safe, and that here, be-
meath the wide-spreading branches Of the Tree
of Liberty, we may dwell secure. H
And now, gentlemen, in conclusion, permit
me to say, that as lean my wearied frame
upon the substantial token of your high regard,
[ shall hold in grateful remembrance the patri-
OTIS who presented it, wishing that in this life
prosperity and happiness in rich abundance
may be your constant companions, and that in
the life to come your inheritance may be I'M
fading, where from the stream of immortality
you NAV drink md be forever happy and for
ever young
Your sincere friend and obedient servant,
am Il. w. LATHAM.