Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-21
Letter from Gov. Gardner.


ton of Alabama, recently transmitted to Gov.
Gardner snappish letter in regard to certain re-
solves of the Massachusetts, Legislature which
had been transmitted to the public authorities of
Alabama. The Boston Bee OF Saturday contain
ed long letter from Gov g.. in reply thereto
Gov. Gardner says that while regretting to say
one weird that may add to the irritation existing
between the North and the South, he deems it
his duty to repudiate the insult cast upon Massa
chusetts, and to vindicate the proprety of her
conduct. The resolves, he says, were temper
ately and calmly written, referring only to a lew
of the more salient points in the long catalogue
of injustice and outrages that mark the record of
the past two years in Kanzas." We make some
extracts frum Gov. Gardner's letter. On the
charge that the resolves were in conflict with. the
truth of history, Gov. Gardner says
Your Excellency may rest assured, not
withstanding your detail, the exact accuracy
of every historical fact here spoken eff known
to and recognized by every reader of those re-
solves, whether he lives North or SOUTH
The bulk OF history is too stern and inexora-
bic to warp itself to suit your Excellency's
wishes.
These shameful occurrences are written,
as with pen of fire, on the broad skies, for
the whole world to read, and they will exist
until history itself shall be no more-a<1amn-
ing disgrace TO our country, our age, our hu.
manity TO those who dared to do them, and to
those who, with equal hardihood, dare deny
or defendrthem.
az Ii you mean that the whole truth OF his.
tory is not expressed in these resolves, then
agree with you. They do not give the half
nor the Worst of these inluman outrases.-
They make DC reference to the rfing of the
/ mails, OF the organized corruption of the citi-
zens of another State to control the elections,
Of arrests without judicial authority, OF the
mockery Of legislation and inhuman laws, of
the destruction of printing presses, of theft,
of arson, and last-that great and final crime,
beyond which human depravity has no power
to go-cold -booded and deliberate murder.
"a Should your Excellency invoke the whole
truth of history, it must bring to your view
the vision of murdered men, Of wives driven
by madness, and TO your ear the agonized CRY
of the orphan. and all for the crime that their
husbands and fathers opposed by their vote or
! voice the introduction OF human servitude
into a region that your father and my father
decided, third of century ago, by solemn
national compact, to Freedom forever"
We give few more extracts from Gov. Gard
ner's letter as follows:
Your Excelleucy next asserts THE
obligations of the Constitution and the laws
of the United States passed IN conformity
thereto being dsregarded and 'nulifed by
Massachusetts, we desire no further inter
course with your States May be permits
ted to remind remind your Excellenny that
nullhed is not word OF Massachusetts,
growth, but that it is indigenous to the
South; and it you have any opprobium to
bestow upon it, YOU can freely do SO much
mole appropriately nearer home than here.
The loyalty of Massachusetts, to the Consti
tuition of the United States has been too often
( and too signally evneed in the critical period
of the country's history to require further
answer from me to thisiungracious suggestion;
but were it otherwise, your Excellency is not
the tribunal to decide for her a question IN
yolving her fidelity to that instrument.
e | am not aware that the Executive of
| Alabama has yet been made CO ordinate in
| judicial authority with the Supreme Court of
the United Stares, and until tits, and not till
then, will its opinion upon such a question
be expressed with any propretv, or be
titled to the slightest consideration.
"Your Excellency concludes your letter.
the whole of which have quoted, in the fol-
lowing words And we wish to be free in
the future; free from insult from State
"noSo eit4@eno w ~ Ae0cSN'Ne 49, 11 ~
nlllty Ioransur ana ioellouslln pu'a'ions upon
tne cnSraceer Oh DoutneIh o'a'gS anu 'ne e c,u
zens tlereoi' 1oul allus,oh l canio' is'i W
understand. lou advanced as your cIiiel anu
closing reason ior desiring no lultner INTER
course win , our ota'e, tnat one Oh ner oena,
'ors mas oectIneu summons 70 persona,
COMBAT ana the other II is wen known "oulo
10 SO IN ooedience not ohly 70 the ia"s anu
seLtlnents oil Msssenusetts' put atso OF the
rules ana o[aer OF congress, anu even oi TIE
statutes OF the otate Oh Alaoaiha i'seh'
further intercourse with Massachusetts is
gratihed to its tull and literal extent, while
we are aepTlVed Oh the PrlVliege Oh Iurhisnihg
sJG .ue PtJuuuons ~ siG Ell n''p ~ az
slie6t comnensation to know that the name,
manufactured in a Massachusett. Mill and
bearinSthe stamp of respectable Ma sachu.
setts firm, will not, as is the case with the
sheet now before me bearing YOUR Excellen
ey's autooranh. he the vehicle NJ conyev,no
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