Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-11-10

PRIVATE LETTER FROM MR. WEBSTER.
The New York Commercial Advertiser publish
es the following letter from Mr.. Webster to the
overseer on his land in New Hampshire which is
copied from the proof sheets of ssThe Private Life
of Daniel Webster; :" by Mr.. Charles Sumner; now
in the press by Messrs. Harper & Brothers
WASHINGTON. March II, 1852
JOHN TAYLOR: Go ahead. The heart of winter is
broken, and before the rst day of April all your
land may be poughed. Buy the oxen of Captain
Marston, if you think the price fair PAY for the hay
send you check for $I6O for these two objects
Put the great oxen in condition to be turned out
and fattened. You have good horse team and
think In addition to this four and pair of four
year old steers will do your work. If you think So
then dispose of the Stevens oxen, or unyoke them
and send them to the pasture for beef l know not
when shall see you, but hope before planting. If
you need anything such guano, for instance write
TO Joseph Breck, Esq. Boston, and he will send it
you.
Whatever ground you plant, see that it is
in good condition. We want pennyroyal crops.
g little farm we'll titled - is farmer the next
best thing to "a little wife well willed. - Guilt
vate your garden. Be to produce sufficient guam
titles of useful vegetables. A man may half support
his family from good garden. Take to keep
my mothers garden in good order, even if it cost
you the wages OF man to take care of it. 1 have
sent you many garden seeds. Distribute them among
your neghbors. Send them to the stores in the vii
iage' that everybody may have part of them with
out cost.
am glad that you have choeen Mr.. Pike replesen-
tative. He is a true man; but there in New
Hampshire many persons. who call themselves wings,
who are wings at ALL and better than disunion-
lsts Any man who hesitates in granting and secur-
ing TO every part of the country its just and its
shtutlonal rights Is an enemy to the whole country
John Taylor! if one of your boys should say that
he honors his father and mother, and loves his BROTH
ers and sisters, but still insists that of them shall
be driven out of the family what you say of him
but this-that there is no real family love in him /?
You and are farmers; we never talk politics; our
talk is of oxen but remember this-that any man
who attempts to excite part of the country against
another is just as wicked he would be who should
attempt to get up quarrel between John Taylor and
his neighbour old Mr.. John Sanborn, or his other
negh5or, Captain Burleigh. There are some animals
that live best in the fire, and there who
delight in heat, smoke, combustion, and general
confagraton. They do not follow the things which
make for peace. They enjoy only controversy, con-
tention, and strife. Have no communion with such
persons, either as neighbors politicians. You
have ri ht to say that slavery ought not to
exist In Virginia than Nlrglnian has to say that
slavery ought to exist in New Hampshire. This is
question left to every State decide for itself and
if we mean to keep the States together must leave
to every State this power of deciding for itself
think never wrote you word before upon pol
Itics. l shall not do it again. only say love your
country, and your whole country and when men at
tempt to persuade you to get into quarrel with the
laws of other Stales tell them IS that you mean to
mind your own business, - and advise them to
/ mind theirs. John Tay lor, you are free man you
possess good principles; you have large family TO
rear and provide for by your labor. Be thankful to
the government which does not Cypress you, which
does not bear you down by excessive taxation but
which holds out to you and to yours the hope of all
blessings which liberty, industry, and security may
give. John Taylor. thank God, morning and evening,
that you born in such a country. ohm Taylor,
never write me another word upon politics. Give my
kndest remembrance to your wife and children; and
| when you look from your eastern windows UPON the
graves of my family, remember that he who is the
author of this letter must follow them to another
world. DANIEL WEBSTER.