, 1859-04-18
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GEs.1rxxx: Your kind note, inviting me to
attend festival in Boston, on the 18th inst, in
honor Of the birthday Of Thomas Jefferson, W..
duly received. Ny engagements are such thatI
cannot attend.
Bearing in mind thst about SERENITY yeazs ako
tHo great political parties were first formed in
this country; that Thomas Jefferson was the
head Of one Of them and Boston the head-quar-
ters of the other, it is both curious and interest
ing that those supposed to descend politically
from the party opposed to Jefferson, should now
be celebrating his birth-day in their own oriQi-
nal seat Of empire, while those claiming politi-
cal descent from him hare nearly ceased to
breathe his name everywhere.
Remembering, too, that the Jefferson party
was formed upon its supposed superior deTotion
to the persoadz rights Of men, holding the rights
Of property to be secondary only, and greatly
inferior, and IN assuming: that the so-called
Democracy 1&t6day are The Jefferson, and
their oppons0s ehe anti-J parties, it
will be equally Interesting to note how com-
pletely the two hare changed hands as te the
principle upon which they we're originally sup
posed to be divided.
The Democracy Of to-day hold the Liberty Of
one man to be absolutely nothing, when in con-
fiet with another nuns right Of property. Re-
publicans, on the contrary, are for both the man
and the dollar, but in cases Of conflict the
man 1<fore the dollar.
remember being once much amused at see
ing two partially intoxicated men engage in
fight with their great-coats on, which fight, af-
ter long and rather harmless contest, ended
in each having fought himself out Of his own
ing parties Of this day nre really identical with
the Two in the days Of jefferson and Adams,
they have performed the satne feat as the two
drunken men.
But soberly, it is now no child's play to save
the principles Of Jefferson from total overthrow
in this nation.
One would state with great confidence that he
could convince nny sane child that the simpler
propositions Of Euclid are true; but neyerthe-
less, be would fail, utterly, with one who should
deny the definitions and a1ioms. The principles
Of Jefferson are the definitions and a1ioms Of
free society. And get they are denied and era
ded, with no small show Of success One dash.
ingly. calls them "glittering. .geneEalities.'"
Another bluntly calls them "self-erident lies"
And others insidiously argue that they apply
only to superior races"
These expressions, differing in form, are iden-
ticai IN object and efIect-the supp!anting the
principles Of free government, and restoring
those Of classification, caste and legitimacy.
They would delight d convocation Of crowned
heads plotting against the people. They are
the vanguard-thc miners and sappers Of re-
turning despotism. We must repulse them, or
they will subjugate US.
This is world Of compensations; and be who
would te no slave must consent to hare no slnye.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it
not for themselves; and, under just God, can
not long retain it.
AL honor to JetIersou-to the man who, in
the concrete pressure of q struggle for national
independence By single people, had the cool
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merely revolutionary document an abstract
truth, applicable to I'LL men and all times, and
50 to embalm il there that to-day and in all COM
ing days it shall be rebuke and stumbling
block to the very harbiagers Of re-appearing
tyranny and oppression.
Your obedient servant,
A. LINCOLN.
Mcssrs. II. L. PIERCE and others, etc.
The Financial States OF the West.
From the North American and U. S. Gaeette.l
Mn. Enron In yesterday mornings issue,
included in some editorial remarks upon q clip
ping from the Evansville (lndianal Inquirer, you
ask the question How can these Western
people pay such rates Of interese {ten per ccnt.)
in the present condition of their affairs:" Hav-
ing lived in the West for number of years, I
feel myself competent to Judge Of Western men,
Western enterprise, Western interests, and the
present condition Of that section.
l. The Banks. The crash Of 1857 was precip-
itated by the future Of the Ohio Life and Trust
Company, =aid failure being rapidly followed BY
the universal suspension, Us it was denoninated,
Of all the Eastern banks, with here and there m
exception. In the West, on the contrary, Ohio
paid specie for every dollar of her currency, nor
did more than fire Of the number1ess banks Of
Illinois and Wisconsin suspend, and Of those
FIRE, with one exception, every dollar Of c,rcn-
lation was well secured and will ultimately be
redeemed
. The standing of the merchants. While the
merchants Of Philadelphia fell before the blast,
like the trees Of the forest before the rushing
gale, and now, with uprootcd trunks and leafess
branches, still cucumber the march Of trade, the
statistics, rs gathered By Douglas Co.'s COM
mercial agency, prove to a demonstration that,
in Chicago, in proportion to the number in bu-
siness and amount Of capital employed, there
were fewer failures, and better per ccntaEe
was paid by the bankrupts, than in any other
city Of this Union.
). have alluded to the condition Of our banks
and standing Of orr merchants as corollary,
aud necessary to the direct answer to your ques-
tiosl. There is an immense Migration contin-
ual!y pouring in upon Our rich prairics. In ey-
cry direction farm-houses ind villages, tecmlng
with life and energy, are sprlnglng up. and from
absolute demand, not speculative mania, land1s
rapidly and intrinsicaly rising in value. Take
Chicago Us IN example. In four years her pop
u1aton has doubled, and she now numbers in.
habitauts to the amount Of one hundred and
twenty thousand. She is the commercial centre
Of our leading railroad lines, and the great out
LET for the whole Northwest, whose commerce
wi!tcns every lake, and even now stretches forth
her arm and spans the ocean itself. The natural
advantages of her position are such that, though
y onderful in her infancy, no one can calculate
her future greatness.