Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-04-14
DAILY VIRGIN1AN.
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL IA, 1854.
The Hulsennann Letter.


The Re<srn Post says that Tire STORY by IT
nanesake in New York, relative 10 tho author
shin of the Hulsemann letter, Is an old one, ant
;ntimates thai there has been no correspondents
between Mr. Everett and Fletcher Webster, OF
tbe snhieet. II adds, howevef.t that. "the history
of the Hulsemann correspondence is curioos, and
the publication of it would be very interesting
1t NAV be given to the world one Of these days.
A dispatch from Boston says tho disclosures
made by the Post have created ne excitement in
that city, nor any illfeeling between the friends
of Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Everett. of the Hui
xemarn letter. the dispatch says:
.;.Tbe oririnsl draft of the letter returned
IN Mr.. Everett more than year ago, by Mr..
Webster,s literary Executors, and printed
,onv taken. which, with the original, will be pre-
served AMONG Mr.. Everett's papers. lie does
not contemplate any publication
In a speech ut the Kossuth banquet in Wash
;ngton, ON the Ist of January, 1852, Mr.. Web
ster thus referred to the letter
..Nay be so cgotistical as TO say that ] have
nothing new 10 say upon the subject OF Hunga-
rv Gentlemen. in the autumn OF year before
last ont of health and retired To my paternal
home among the mountains OF New Hampshire
was bv reason of my physical condition. con
fined to nav house. out Nae aihehB th' hi""''
airs whose native air ] was bound 10 inspire
Notbing saluted my senses, nothing salutod my
mind or my sentiments, but freedom, full and Gu
fire. [applanse.l and there gentlemen near The
crave OF my ancestors, wrote letter which
most of YOU have seem addressed 10 the Austrian
charge dAffaires. ] can say nothing of the a
hiIitv displayed in that letter but a. to ITS prln-
oipIes while the sun and moon endure stand
by them"
A correspondent of the Baltimore Times wri-
ting from Washington, claims to have oonversed
freely with Mr.. Everett upon the subject OF bis
intimate relations with Mr.. Webster; and he ar
r;ves at the conclusion that while Mr.. +. assisted
the secretary in the discharge of his arduous L.
bors, and was consulted in regard to the famous
letter, the authorship was not the present Soma
tors nor does he claim it. lie Is said to he,
moreover, deeply PANIED at the recent pul1ca-
tons in regard to it
The Boston Advertiser, understood 10 be in the
confidence of Mr.. Everett. says:
We know not why the disclosure Of the facts
here stated should produce the intense excite
meut here pretended among the friends ofMr.
Webster and Mr.. Everett. II has been long
known to some Of the friends Of both these gen
tlemen that Mr.. Everett Mt Mr.. Nebstcf's re
quest while he was quito III, wrote the draii of n
letter which Mr.. Webster adopted with add
tons as hrs reply TO Dir. Hulesmann and that
Mr. Webster some time before his death, de-
clared his intention of announcing this fact, but
was induced by certain considerations 70 post
pone it, leaving the papers however IN state for
future publication. II the facts stated la the n
boye extract in regard to securing the original
draft from Mr.. Fletcher Webster are correct
they must have occurred many months ago, and
the story of the object Of Mr. Ever,tt's recent
visit, and the publication of thousand cop1es for
circulation, falls to the ground The fncts in
regard 10 the authorship of the letter are histor-
cal details, proper to be published Mt proper
time, and which neither party could have any
disposition to conceal