Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-11-06
Unpublished letter OfDaniCl Web
WAsnlNGroN, March 18th, 1852.
john TAYLOR


|"JonN TAYLOR
eco ahead. The heart ofthe Winter is bro
ken, and before the first day of April all your
land may be powcd. Buy the oxen Of Cap
tain Marston, if you think the price fair. Pay
Tor the hay. send you check for SlG0, for
these two objects. Put the great oxen in "a
condition 10 be turned out and iattened. You
have good horse team, and | think In addi-
lion to tins, four Oxen 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
know not when | shall see you, but hope
before planting. lfyou need any thing, such
as guano, for instance, write to Joseph Buck,
ESQ., Boston and he will send ii to you.
"Wheatevcr ground you SOW or plant, see
that it is in good condition. We want no pen
nyroyal crops, little farm well tiled, is to
farmer the next best thing to "a little wife well
wIIcd.' Cultivate your garden BE sure to
produce sufficient quantities of useful vegeta-
bes. man may half support his family from
a good garden luke care 10 keep my moth
er's garden in good order, even If it cost you
the wages Of a man to take care Of it. have
sent you many garden seeds Distribute them
among your ncghbors. Send them to the stores
IN the village, that everybody may have part
oil them without cost. | am glad that You have
chosen MI. Pike representatives He is a true
man; there are ia New Hampshire many per
sons who call themselves Wings who are no
Wings ut all, and no better than dsanionists
Any man who hcsitares in granting and secur
ing to every part Of the country its just and
IFS consitnlonoIrlglts, is all enemy to the " hole
country.
John Taylor! If one Of your boys should
say that he honors his father and mother and
loves his brothers and sisters but still insists
that one Of them shall be driven out of the fam
~ what can on 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 one part Of the country
against another Is just as wicked as he would
be " ho should attempt to get up a quarrel be.
tween John Taylor aud his ncigbor. old Mr..
John Sanborn, or his other neighbor Capt.
Burleigh. There arc some animals that live
best in the fire; and there are some men who
delight IN heat, smoke, combustion, and even
general confIagration. They do not follow the
things which make for peace. They ENJOY on
y controversy, contention and strife Have
no communion with such persons either or pol
uclans. You have no more reht 10 say that
slavery ought not to exist in Virginia, than a
Virgirian has TO say that slavery ought to ex
istin New Hampshire. This IS a question left
to every Stale to decide for itself; and if we
mean to keep the States together, we must
leave to every State this power ofdeciling for
itself
al thlnk never wrote you a word before on
politics shall not do it again only saw,
love Your country and your whole country
and when men attempt to persuade you to get
INTO quarrel with the laws of other States.
tell them that you mean To mind your own bu.
siness, and advise them to mind theirs. John
Taylor, you are free man; you possess good
principles; you have age 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 Tay lor, thank
God morning and evening, that you were born