Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-20

fhss the Procssdines in the Senate on Aonoa5J
a..rackeou ON the PreteXt for
secession.sPeech from Cnaries
n, Snmner-Mr. President, l have 30
as.;ra now to make q speech, nor to take
.nv mart in the discussion that has been
.ommenced. l caa bear yet a little Ion
~ The Misrepresentation in the Presi'
dsnt,s message, and l think the North can
hear them yet a little longer. The time
viii come, perhaps, when l shall deem ii
INV duty to set forth those things in the
right Of reason and of history. Mean
while, 1 content myself with simply offer
ing to the Senate a piece of testimony Of
direct and most authoritative bearing upon
the present state of the Union. If l may
adopt the language of the gentleman from
Mississippi, it will help us to make tie
diagnosis of the present disease in the body
polite. ,.,,
hold in nv hand an unpublished au-
toSraph letter, written by Gen. jackson,
while President of the United States, and
addressed TO a clergyman in a slaveholding
State. Omitting certain sentences which
are of a purely private nature, the letter is
as follows:
TPrivate. WAsHINGsoN, May 1, 1888
my DEAR SIR:''* = + 81 have
had a laborious task here, but notification
is dead; and its actors and curriers' will on
" be remembered by the people to be ex-
ecrated for their wicked designs to sever
and destroy the only good Government on
the globe, and that prosperity and happi-
ness we enjoy over every other portion of
the world. Humans gallows ought to be
the fate of oil such ambitious men, who
would involve their country in civil war,
and all the evils in its train, that they
might reign and ride on its whirlwinds and
direct the storm. The free people of these
United States have spoken and consigned
these wicked demagogues TO their proper
doom. Take care of your nullitiers; you
have them among you; let them meet with
the indignant frowns of every man who
loves his country. The tariff, it is now"
land be italicizes or undrescores the word
"now"-"known, as a mere p~retext; its
burden WAS on your coarse woolens. BY
the law of July, 1882, coarse wooden was
wa reduced to- per cent, for the benefit
of the South. Mr.. Clay's bill takes it up
and classes it with woolens at fifty per cent,
reduces it gradually down to twenty per
cent, and there it is to remain, and Mr..
Calhoun and all the nullifiers agree to the
principle. The cash duties and home val
uation will be equal to fifteen per cent.
more, and after the year 1912 you pay on
coarse woolens thir,y-fve per cent. If this
is not protection, l cannot understand;
therefore the tariff was only the pretext,
and disunion and a Southern Confede racy
the real object. The merit pretert wH be
the negro or slavery question.
"My health is not good, but is impro-
wing a little. Presnt me kindly to your
lady and family, and believe me to be your
friend. l will always be happy to hear
from you. ANDREW JACKSON
"Tbe Rev. Andrew j. Crawford"
There is an original autograph letter in
the unmistakahle, ~well-kuown, bold, troad
handwriting. Here Mr.. Sumner held the
letter up.] These are the words of a pat
riotic STAKEHOLDER in Tennessee, addressed
to a patriot clergyman of a slaveholding
State, and they are directly applicable to
the present hour. OF practical sense, of
infexible purpose, and of various expe-
rience, Andrew Jackson saw intuitively the
springs and motives of human conduct,
while be loved his country with a firm and
all-embracing attachment. Thus inspired,
he was able to Judge the present and dis
Germ the future. The tariff, in his opinion,
was a pretext only; Disunion and a South
ern Confederacy the real object. "The
next pretexi," says he-and you, sir will
mark the words-"will be the negro or
slavery question:" These, sir, are his
words, not mine. This is his emphatic
judgement. These words add this Judge
ment now belong to history; nor can they
be assailed without assailing one.of the
geatest examples that a slaveholding COM
munity has given to our common country.