Washington telegraph., 1856-09-03
nay- Below will be found an eloquent

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and stirring letter addressed by our former
fellow-citizen, A. III. GARLAND, Esq, to
the committee of invitation of the Pine
Bluff American Rally of the 18th of July
1t breathes the true and proper spirit. 1t
should have had a place in our columns
ere this, but for the fact that we mislaid
the number of the Pine Bluff american
containing it.
We hoped to have the pleasure OF
hearing our friend Mr. GARLAND at the
FILLMORE Rally on the 18th instant,
but regret to learn that he leaves us on
Friday, the 18th, to take up his perma-
nent residence in the city of Little Rock
Again do we wish him prosperity aud a
full measure of success, pecuniary and
professional, In his new home:
LITTLE Rock, July 10, 1856.
Messrs. H. CARLTON, I. c. MILLS, 7.
BRowNFIELD, and others, Committee
GenHemea-Your kind favor, asking
my presence at the Barbecue, to be given
at Pine Bluff on the 18th inst, has been
received and carefully read. Ordinarily,
this would be received by me as call to
an imperative duty; but situated as | am
having just changed my locatlon-my
matters disorganized and unarranged-
Supreme Court now sitting, and the Chan
cery Court to sit early in August see
no possible hope for me to be with you on
that day. Though l forego, through a
necessity that knows no law, this pleasure,
yet, l hope most ardently you will have a
glorious and brilliant day-one worthy of
the great cause in honor of which the
feast is spread. and that many hearts
may be glad TO overhowing from the genl-
al influences of the doctrines you promul-
gate on that day. Truly, we are engaged
in a great battle--the effects of which are
to be wonderful mighty. The empire
of Europe was decided by one charge of
the Old Guard, that in hundred battles
had never faltered, on the blood -drenched
plains Of Waterloo; and, mark the words,
the destiny of this Republic rests in the
struggle now going on, to be decided in
November.
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greater necessity did not exist for vigilance
and labor in rs, than there does now
What signify all those splendid victories,
in military science and craftsmanship
and diplomacy, that established our liber-
ties, if now we are too weak to preserve
them, and they are to be swept from our
soil by the foul breath of faction and dem
agogueism. And with the thousand jar
ring elements around us, how are We to
keep that, the highest legacy ever be-
queathed to a race, pure and unsullled, but
to inculcatc and live up to Il purely Amer
lean feeling-clothe those men with pow
er who love to hear the thrilling stories Of
our revolution rccited-those that feel and
own that heaven-b born principle to its full
est extent, that the country of their birth
Is first in their hearts In looking for
one who is to give name and character to
our country through her coming trials.
where is the man to do this, unless it be
our worthy leader, Millard Fillmore ?
the n0blest Roman of them all-the Co
rlnthlan column that now upholds, beau
tifes and adorns the temple of our liberty;
man that has been tried in the fercest
Ordeals-one to whom, when he left the
Executive Chair of this nation, the hearts
of the great American people afectionate-
iy clunG-who was met and honored by
the masses throughout the country, as one
of bumanity's noblest benefactors And
if, in this crisis, he is to be thrown aside,
say TO the rising generation everywhere,
II yoa desire to be great, be not great al
all
Bat have written more than | intend
ed; and, while l thank you warmly for the
complimentary notice of one 50 humble
as myself, must beg that you excuse me,
after my apology, assuring you, from the
bottom Of my heart, thy birth, inspira-
tlon, breathing, education, and by reading.
Lam an American in the meaning of our
platform, and it will be glory and heraldry
enough for me to be one through life
Most respectfully,
Your obcd't serv't,
A. III. GARLAND.