Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-17
Letter from MIR. Graham.
HIILsBoRoUGH, n. c., August 25, II

HILLsBoRoUGH, n. c., August 25, 1852.
GENTLEMEN: Your letter, propounding series
of interrogatores, at the instance OF the Southern
Rights Convention of the State of Alabama, which
assembled at Montgomery on the 18th utimo,
has been received.
In reply, have the honor TO say that am by
birth, education, residence, association, and inte
rest identified with the South. These, with my
past life, afford, in my opinion better guaran-
tee of fidelity to all her just rights than any de-
carations of abstract or speculative opinions,
after have been by aconyention of my political
friends placed before the nation as candidate
| for high station | desire 20 see IN end to the
agitation Of slavery in connexion with national
politics; and / believe that BY faithful adhe-
renee to the adjustment made by the Compromise
| of 1850, and the execution of the law as II has
been carried out by. the present Executive head
of the government, the country is destined to
repose and security on this exciting topic such
| ms il has not enjoyed since the agitation COM
menced.
While this appears to be the general state Of
public feeling in all sections | can perceive nei-
ther necessity utility, on the part Of the
South, for a discussion of the extreme cases Of
apprehended injury comprised in your interrog-
atores, as among the practical questions of the
times; such was the unanimous opinion of those
patriotic citizens Of the South who were delegat-
ed to the convention by which l was nominated,
and who required only an acquiescence in the
Compromise as o security for their rights in the
present juncture and in that opinion concur.
shall undertake TO establish no new tests Of
orthodoxy, to fan the fame Of local excitement in
the one section or the other but if elected will
sumo the powers devolved on me with an impartial
mind, and o purpose to maintain the integrity OF
thS Union upon principles just, constitutional,
and liberal towards all its parts
thI am very respectfully, your obedient servant
WILL. A. GRAHAM.
Messrs. THOMAS WILLIAMS. J. A. ELMoRE, &C.,
Committee.
p s-The reception of yeur letter in the midst
of nv preparations for departure from Washing
ton and necessary engagements in the removal
and establishment Of my family ut home, has oo-
casioned n delay in its acknowledgement, which
trust will he ascribed to no feeling of disrespect.
The best vegetable pill is an apple dumping.
Hon. Ben Hardin of Kentucky, is at the point
Of death in Cincinnati
A correspondent Of IN Oregon paper complains
that the Hon. Judge Nelson persists in sleeping
in the courthouse The writer thinks he ought
to hire a room at n hotel.
WISCONSIN, The Free Democracy have nomi-
mated D. A. knowlton, of Freeport for governor,
and Philo Carpenter, Of Chicago, for Lieutenant
governor.
There are. in Virginia, $50 Baptist churches,
90, 900 members and 413 ministers. The Rev.
John Clay, father of Henry Clay, was Baptist
minister and resided in Hanover county
The marble ouarries in Vermont are becoming
;ronortant S40O, 900 worth Of the stone was
cold from one of them the last year. Statuary
marble, said to equal the Italian, has been oe>
tanned,