The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1859-12-13
LETTER FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE.
FARMINGToN, n. H., Nov. 2lst, 80.

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Hou. Henry A. Wise:-As you are personally
an entire stranger to me- you may think L am
rather impudent and familiar ia addressing you in
the manner that I4choose to at the present time.
But the only excuse / have to make is that in a
perusual of the New York Weekly Tribune"
bearing date of November 10th 1879, my eye
rested on the following Infamous and threatening
letter purporting to have been qnoted from
Virginia print by the Tribune. Namely
"Clerk of the Court of Charlesto,ca, Fd." il
"r Sir:-You had better caution your authorities
to be careful about what they do with 0ssawattomie
Brown. So sure as you hurt one hair of his head
mark my word, the following day you will see
every CITY town and village, South of Mason and
Dixons line in flames We are determined to
put slavery down at all odds, forcibly fit must
peacefully if it can. Believe me when l tell you
the end is not yet; by . long odds. All Of us at
the North sympathize with the martyrs of IIarpers
Ferry #5a- .-a ..-,5'.s' a.Ha -est F@s. EEL ."
These reasonable and scandaous lines vera
post market New York city. Now, SIR, my object
in detailing this letter to you ard adding another
from myself, is to convince you that in regard to
the statement that we, all of us at the North,
sympathizes with the Harpers Ferry traitors,
murdercrs and horse-thieves, is, far as the
majority of the North concerned, contemplate
and notorious lie. On the contrary, the universal
opinion in this section of the Union, with perhaps
the exception of few abolition fanatics is, that
the traitors and conspirators against the peace OF
our common country, richly merit the doom in
prospect for them. As for myself, | am not
blood thirsty-man, neither do | thirst for the
blood of old Brown & Co.; nor yet do believe
that you and your brother Virginians do, as rank
abolitonists would have me believe. But reason,
that indicator of justice, teaches that if it
not for the examples made of desperate criminals,
and the awful warning given by their execution
when their crimes are capital, and when their aim
in life is to subvert the laws of their country-T
say if examples not made Of such criminals,
government and law would soon cease to exist, and
desperadoes Williams and robbers like Brown & Go,
would run rampant throughout the country, North
as well as South, seeking whom they might butcher
and rob to gain their own selfish ends, which is,
in my humble opinion, to rule this country or
to ruin it, They had rather reign iE He'll than
serve in Heaven. And in my opinion, and dare
assert that it is the opinion of the majority of
New Hampshire that the future peace and quiet
not only of Virginia, but of this Union, demands
that example should be made of these bold and
desperate who sought to deprive not only
Virginia but the whole South, Of her constitutional
rights, and plunge this country into all the horrors
of civil war, bloodshed and chy-probal,y the
annhlaton of this glorious republic. i am no
lover of the institution Of slavery either as it exists
at the South, in the ensaveinent of the black
negro it exists at the North.in the oppression
of the Anglo-Saxon white operatives and employers
of Abolition monopolist manufacturers, whose
condition is worse, In many instances, than tho
negro slaves But | am DEPRESSING from my
subject in this letter, and to resume.--New
Hampshire all know, tolerated the institution of
slavery in her midst, and abolished it when she
saw fit to by the free will of her own people. And
ain perfectly willing to let the South enjoy the
same constitutional right that New Hampshire and
old Abolition Massachusetts did in regard to
protecting abolishipg the institution of slavery
And if the Abolition fanatics of the North will
not let the South enjoy the rights, under the
Constitution that fore-fathers did, they be
forced to at the cannon mouth; in the case Of
the rendition of the fugtiveslaye Burns from their
grasp few years since. .ea.- sa ... F-
Let them threaten, and if they dare attack the
South on the execution Of Brown, and mark my
word, they will not have the South alone to fight
as they seem to think would be the case for there
are thousands of good law-abiding Democrats North
of Mason & Dixon's line who are ready at the FIRST
signal or word of command from the commander
n-chief of this Republic to rally South and pour
hot fire in the rear of traitors and incendiaries
as they will meet with Ia front. from Southern
patriots eas 50 Is. srfIgsi... sge. .a..asi a4s
But have written enough to vince you that
the South has friends IS wei as a few ianatical
enemies at the North This letter is at your
disposal either for public or private use, as it
contains no assertions but What can be easily
Very respectfully, yours g'a
r-.~.s7rz lnRAM q. GORE
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