The Washington union., 1858-03-18
LETTER FROM HON REyERDY JOHN
son,


The subjoined interesting letter addressed by the
suthor to the recent meeting in Baltimore to
press appreciation of the policy Of the administration on
the Kansas question
WAsIlSGTuS March g. 1853.
GESrrEnEx My engagements in this city viii deprive
of the qualification Of attending the meeting the
t inst 10 which you have been good to invite
should Hkn rnCh 10 stiffness the lsartJ good VIII with
which patriotic citizens viii approve the policy OF the
President IN recommending the admission Of Kansas into
the Union with her Leoompton constitution.
The time has when this disturbing subject should
bc put rest ard in present condition see no ga
fer or rooFr rfsetTial mode OF accomplishing 1t.
Ii, from love OF agitation thus far INDUCED in
al the hazard Of very form of government the
people OF kasas rechlesy pursue their cf folly
aud violence in disregard of the plainest dictate. o duty
they must in the nature of things exhaust their
powers Of criminal folly and awaken 10 the necessity,
which peoniay interests and personal safety viii
bring homo 10 them Of establishing amongst themselves
tho reign of order ard av.
During the interval be that short or long their insan
ity viii be confined their limits Invested when
in the Union they win be under the constitutions Of
the Union with the exclusive right govern themselves
these outases, continued. viii be wholly internal and
charnabe 10 themselves alone Their sister will
but regard and pity them the temporary victims Of hu
man folly and look confidently TO early period when
reason and patriotism viii have sway and the madness
wickedness end But Judging by the past this will
not be the whilst their territorial condition coniin-
And in that condition, and FOR that reason il
apparently the oiet of political party in the country
TO retain H.
The natt-ntive observer If the signs of the times
these indicated by portion OF the public press in
the free States, and In the congressional speeches Of
tam political leaders cannot fail to discover that the az
iraon which disInays thousands and hundreds OF
thousands OF Uniolavig citizens and almost the
entire country to treInbe TO the imminent peril Of the
Union is earnestly and for miserable party ends sought
TO lie maintained end IL possible agSravated Power il
gyxfs
end and to these thes zraiousy work blind ndiaer
ent 30 the hazard Of destruction, to which they sub
ecting the entire fabric
The institution OF slavery. insAparsly connected
with the very existence and honor of the southern States
without which the most Of them would be
late as the British islsne vast Of r1n and visit
Ing upon the other States pccniary loss scarcely IL at
all less severe and destructive and political calamity
IN extent and consequences incacuabe-is daily hourly
made the topic of unfrsernaI bitter insulting rcprosch
and Inrectyc. Every opprohious cithet language
contains and the industrious research or the deagogue
can discover is in this regard heapcd upon southern
citizens who IN everything hai imparts dignity 10 hu-
many talents attanmenfs patriotism, mornlity reli-
gionare than their equals.
1t Is gratifying to know that this crusade of fsIy and
crime is only not approved but sterny condemned
by the thousands and tens Of thousands Of good and patri
otic Of the free States True the lessons noble
ancestry alive to The real interests Of their section;
and therishing undyng love for the Uniop and every
State composing itthey regard these gross, revolving
insane assaults with nothing but oathing and disgust
With the demasogue, however what the demands,
however clear Of duty lid these arrest his selfish
career Ii WIS but the other day TINT senator from
northern State State interested perhaps If that
be possible than any othef in the undisturbed cuniu-
ance Of the Uuo and whose past and present position
should have taught him better in speech carefully
elaborated and ia print before spoken desecrated the
Senate chamber hy virtually threatening the south with
early practical subugstion hurting the btieest anathe
ns at their system OF labor denouncng it at with
the Declaration OF Independence runant TO the instincts
of humanity, and outrage upon the Of God Never
there direct incentive to seryile insurrection
Could the slaves Of the South hear such teachings and be
mad and reckless the speaker, many homestead
would soon swim In blood, and many cry woud find
its way to the throne OF Heaven invoking retributive
Justice upon the author OF It's agony Even co-orinaie
branch Of the government because only ef it's having
differed with him question Of constitutional law u-
dically before IT, in due Of legal proceeding was
and evidently from party enH subjected 10
luminous afiak dshonored human lips These
arc strong terms to srpy DO senator OF The United
States but the relation which held TO what is known
the Drod sret case, and which furnished the pretext
or the be and the knewissic which this gives me rrs
tifes in their There Is net. knor word Of
truth IN i,s direct charges thc slightest foundation
for the uncsrifahl+ and unnnny insinuaiions in which
he nduged. The case if-saf oriunaIly commenced
by SCOTT under the sdsice OF advocate of
slavery, IN ct the State courts &c Missouri Ihis
done la Eestess good saii. snd with yi.w 10 pofanl
effect there cevhcrc, and tho iefnce carried
n Tn. spirit The Judgment ~ that court Ia
aVes of Sf but the writ af error, sued out by the
master II reseTsed and the rcrnar,cd sr final
Judgment scott counsel then abandoned that case and
instituted another iu the Ike purpose in the circuit
OF tio nited States i that district BY that court
his legality to IL free maintained but cF the
merits the Judgment against him. when he and his
counsel fhe nsasfer ~ cguaaE-brought the
controversy to The supreme CONT Of thr United Sstes
The all done before the ksilsi- and Nebraska
passed anticipated On the hTst hearing IN flrat
court the argument for SCOTT was made by Mr.. Buir
and for the mssief by Mr. GeyeF zone tho then sena
tors from Ms@urii and myself a rcargumeut or
dered and that conducted by Mr. Blair and NJ g.
w Curtis tthe brother OF MIR. Justice CuTtiss r scott
and with signal ability and the again repre-
zcntsl by Mr. Goser and myself The senator isinua
i'n that the mae by the master for the pur-
pose Uf obtaining deision by the Supreme Court 20
Gar frsn being true that the suspicion, at the time
that abe political flicHls vf tbs -tlc abolition
lists had hsl il instituted and bugt here with liat
exclusive cT,e But ths equally Envnndci as was
stated BY Mr Blasr in open CONT azd few ,lys after
Warls in communication b. the National lntulligcncer
The allegation also, that thr counsel - the defendant
STAKEHOLDER Taid by hiin. is in krrpina with the
rrckle--nSs II this portion u the entire speech Il y
absolutely untrue The questions that tie involved
mentioned 10 us tv a-uufbsrn ltlan and avavs
entertaining the opinion afterwards announced bv tho
Supreme Court, and seeing, as l thought bow @espiy