Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1859-04-23
9 WIEN LEFT MOST
GOV. wise and tho AdminIstratIon,I


in; the Huntsville alabama 4dVoeate. We
may dissent in very many respects from the
Governors argument, but this letter isso.
unique and original in conception, SO bold
and manly in expression, that We cannot
withhold it from our readers:
f1cHMoND, Va, JAM 3, 1859.
To THE Hon. DAVID HUBsARp.-My Dear Sir
You say In your address TO me, sMy once friend.n
Why not friend now as ever once2 1t is a self
solace OF mine that never lost friend once won,
and never won an enemy by any fault of mine for
which can reproach myself / hope that you. don't
reproach me with having forfeited your esteem in
the least degree. regret that the lapse OF time
and distance have removed us so far apart that
we have not hid the opportunity of more frequent
interchange of personal attention, but hope that
The regard or respect of neither for the other ha6
diminished.
am sorry to be informed attat Ike South is no.o
a icfdonp.' A widow is a forlorn being, and de
mands all INV sympathy. 1t is true. that am o
married man already, and tender the LADY in
weeds my true and gallant devotion ahusband'
And we're in state of Single bessedness it would
still be Against nature for to tender my hand
to the South in holy wedlock for claim to be
born other womb and TO be as loyal a as ever
sucked the milk OF his mother, and to be ready to
protect her in veal or woe against every enemy and
every evil according TO the best ability with which
God and her nursing have endowed me. Protect
hert Ay 1t do not, may my right hand forget
its cnnningl From what2 From Aboltionists
i
always tried to do, much TO my And
from The tEeachery of sons of her own, and from.
the folly of Eis sincere friends, too mean to try
to protect her. as have tried of late in vaius ]
would protect her from the authors OF Kausas-Nc> ]
braska bills-from the freesoilsm OF Badger amend
mens-irom the effects of repeating laws establsh-
ing and protect slavery in Territores-from the
false protection of non>intsryention, Withdrawing
all pretensiOn to protect all persons and property
equally and alike the common territory of Joint
settement-from Lecompton policy that had not
NJ 4Sn as0a in fhn Fotl 10 Frnrn
the compromises of English bills which stripped
OF every particle OF prestige we had eft-trom
the wickedness of 'force and fraud. and the folly
OF a minority attempting to establish rule of JaS
Gut nctas in the lace of an unscrupulous majority.
We were strong on the moral ground of equality.
We relinquished that in attempting to assume more
than equality and we lost all character for justice.
Vie we've wise once in demanding more than our
due, and we have been foolish since and of late in
trying to deprive Others of their due. 4Ssop taught
the cock in the fable to say to the horse when he
entered his STALL If you wont tread on my toes, |
wont upon yours But cock has crowd like
chanticeer the defiant notes Hardest fend off, He
has said TO iron shod hoofs: Sill stamp your toes
Off We have tried TO play the same game of
snatch as snatch can, with the most snatching
snatchers in the world. We have challenged a com.
petition of settlement with thin, shaveholding,
agricultural population part, against ma
jority host of cUmmeTciaI trading, iree-white free
soil people who have not all homes and who are
keeping sharp look out for them, and who can
use Sherpes raes put into their hands by fanati-
cism to acquire them. All they ask is for the rule
to be once fixed that you take all you and
hold all you can take, and thStno power of Con-
or other power is TO interfere 10 hinder the
strongest in taking and holding all. Now, have
raised my warning OF late against this week kness
and wickedness on our part. have tried to pro-
tect my widowed mother, the South, by giving
honest flial counsel against the whole household.
The Rubens have tried to sell me into Egypt for
my 'dreamisg:' But am nevertheless loyal to the
house of my father and loving to my misguided
brethren, aud ! mean to redouble my efforts the
more to the house OF Israel. IF must be
driven out as dreamer, will at least preserve
mine integrity and time and the day of famine
will show whose counsel and whose course will
have saved the household and all the land of the
stranger too. Ay-and is Democracy well as the
South 10 have no out>spoken, honest couusellor2
Are to be given over TO the federal gods of Pa.
cific raroads2 Are we TO out YGS00 Ydzoo? To
out Adams Adams in putting internal improve
ments by tue general government on the most ou-
npote and Indefinitely stretching power of all
powers of the federal government-the war powerP
Are we to abolish ad valorem and adopt specific
duties TO supply a tariff for revenue, the standard
OF which is already 81 millions OF expenditure on
1921 average rate of importatious? Are we TO ina |
crease 81 millions of expenditure to the unknown
limtleSs amount required Tor railroads this
continent; for post Office that don't pay expenses
Tor pensions unheard of in character and amount;
for land office which gives away three for
every sold and brings US in debt; for Increase
of standing army with such as our frontiers and |
Indian wars and protectorates of foreign territory
propose; and for such navy as Isthmian with
no ltss than eight Powers If the earI5 England, |
i
Granada and Paraguay demand if threatened only
Is protection to be tur ed into prob biUn2 If so,
what is direct tGr? Is land tax the only one |
which can be 'Gpp0Tti0ned2' Are the land owners |
to pay all the cost of the crusade of Congress and
manifest destiny Is strict construction and are
State tights to be abandoned, and are we to give
up State corporations TO the bankruptcies of fed
eral commission? Where would have been our |
people and their effects last year it federal power
could have put our State banks into course of |
liquidation under commission OF bankruptcy p l.
Il, 1hn SNOth INV n nnr Rnn nNfFU in a
situation to rush into war-Ear invited by the |
President with three European and five American |
Powers2 And we to be grand consolidated |
elective, North and South American imperialism
The question not, 'Wil the Union he dissolved |
That settled question. But the question is, |
SIS the old Virginia Democratic faith 10 abandoned
aud rush on with the President into full
scheme of federal policy which in its whole oui-
line exceeds any federalism in all its points which
Hamilton or Adams any other latitudinarian
dared TO project prOpose2 For my part,
! axe ground now firmly and at once against the
power. ! am Tor the Washington policy of
peace, against all entangpg alliances and pro-
tectorates, and the jackson rule of demanding
nothing but what is right and submitting to moth
ing that is wrong and for preserving and protect
ing the South and whole country from ambitious
and buccaneersng wars, of which the landed and
planting interests would have to bear the bur-
thens at great sacrifice of present prosperity. l
am against internal improvements by the general
government more than since their construction
is put ON the trGr P0reT. II we could beard En>
gland up to $40 40, ten years ago. without a road
or know route to Oregon-why can't we wait for
emigrants TO beat path their way 10 gold
mines and hold California without cutting MILF
tary road in time. OF peace2 ] am for retrench-
meut and reorm of all expenditures and for
only for an economical administrat on scale Of
pure, old fashioned republican simplicity, dscrim-
mating no more than is necessary TO present pros
hibi ion on non~dut able articles. for free
trade and the protection it affords is demonstrably
ample for people of enterprise and arts like ours
! am against State bank bankruptcy and all sorts