Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-09
The next Pretext will be the Negro.

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The next Pretext viii be the Negro
We give from the Globe the official re
port of Nh. Summers remarks in the Sen
ate on the 10th, and the autograph letter
never before published-written By Ger
Jackson.
Mr.. Sumner.-Mr. President, Ihaye n
desire now to make a speech, nor to tax
any part in the discussion that has beel
commenced. l can bears little longer tn
Misrepresentation in the Presidents mes.
sage, and l believe the North can bear then
yet a little longer. The time will come
perhaps, when l shall deem it my duty t.
set forth those things in the light of reason
and of history. Meanwhile. content my
self with simply offering to the Senate ;
piece of testimony of direct and most au
thOritive bearing upon the present state o
the Union, If | may adopt the language
of the Senator from Mississippi. Mr..
Davis, it will help us to make the dag
nosis of the present disease in the body
polite.
l hold in my hand an unpublished au.
tograph letter, written by General Jackson
while President of the United States. and
addressed to a clergyman in a s~laveholdine
State. 0mitting certain sentences which
are of a purely private nature, the letter i;
as follows:
[.Prirate. WASHINGTON, hoy l, 1888.
NY DEAR SIR" Q O Il have
had a laborious task here, but notification
is dead; and its actors anu counriers will
only be remembered by the pe2nle to be
execrated for their wicked designs to srveT
and destroy the only good Government on
the globe, and that prosperity and happi-
ness we enjoy oyer every other portion of
the world. Humans gallOws ought to be
the fate of all such ambitious men, who
would involve their country in civil war.
and all the evils in it, train. that they
might reign and ride on its whirlwinds
and direct the storm The f ee people of
these United States have spoken, and con-
signed these wicked demagogues to their
proper doom. Take care of your nullifers:
you have them among you; let them meet
with the Indignant frowns of every man
who loves his country. The tariff, it is
R0U"-
and he italicizes or underscores the word
''nOw, -
'tknown was a mere pretext-its burden
was on your coarse weolens By the law
of July, 1882, coarse wooden wa reduced
to five per cent, for the benefit of the South.
Mr.. Clay's bill takes it up and classes it
with woOlens at fifty per cent, reduce, it
gradually down to twenty per cent. and
there it is to remain. and Mr.. Calhoun
and all the nullifers agree to the principle.
The cash duties and home valuation will be
equal to fifteen per cent, more, and after
the year 1912, you pay on coarse woOlens
thirty five per cent. If this is not protec-
ton, L cannot understand; therefore the
tariff was only the pretext, and disuniOn
and a southern confcderacy the real object.
The mex pretext will be the negro or sla-
very question.
My health is not good, but is improv-
ing a little. Present me kindly to your
lady and family, and believe me to be your
L viii always be happy to hear
you,
"ANDREW JACKSON.
The Rev. ANDREW j. CRAWFORD
There is the original autograph letter
in the unmistakablc, well-known, bold
broad, hand writing. Here Mr.. Sumner
held the letter up. These are the words
Of a patriotic STAKEHOLDER of Tennessee, adj
dressed to a patriotic clergyman of a slave
State, and they are directly APP
to the present hour. Of practical
Bile sense, of infexible purpose. and of
various experience, Andrew Jackson saw
int%uitiycly the springs and motives of hui
man conduct, while he loved his country
with a firm and all embracing attachment.
Thus inspired, he was able to judge the
present and to discern the future. The
in his opinion. was a prctext only;
l%isunion and 4 southern c~onfederacy the
zeal object. The next pretext," says he
and you, sir. will mark the words
will be the negro or slave question:
Those sir, are his words. not mine. This
S his emphatic judgme t. These words
md this judgment now belong to history;
Tor can they be assailed without assailing
,ne of the greatest examples that a slave
community has given to a common
The New York Posts Washington cor
.'espOndent, in giving the scene in the Sen
tie. says:
Take care of your nullifers o the
arif was only a pretcxt, and disuniOn
md a Southern confederacy the real object.
The next pretext will be the negro or sla-
Iery question" When this extract was
cad. as it was in Mr.. Summers most i'm
manner, 4 most intense interest
prevailed. Jefferson Davis. and the rest
# the null iiers listened with painful at
and when the reading ended, it
eemed as if they had got through a surgi-
al operation. twas like dashing a buck
t of cold water into their faces. and they
lid not recover their breath enough to re-
,ly for the rest of the day.
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