The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-07-07

my house to share my hospitality, told my |
slaves that they were free, and actually |
induced the igncrant, but happy Paul, to
believe he was free, and to bring suit for
himself and his sister Charlotte, both of
whom you may rceollect, as they waited
on you when YOU visite US. had a vex-
ations and long law slit with Paul, but
triuuphel over him and his abolition ad-
Fscrs. ! served in Congress as delegate
frem Michigan and Wisconsin two years
each, and was then beaten for the third
term by Doty, because | served as sec-
ond IN the Ci1ley and Graves duel, and
was a slave owner
In 1851 | was removed from the Office
Of Surveyor General Of WISCONSIN and
Iowa, by Gen. Harrison Administration
through Doty's influence as The then dele
gate, simply because was Democrat
and syinpatf3lzed with the SoutA--no
single objection having been made against
me of any other character Mr.. Polk,
God bless him, restored me in 1S45, and
put out the long-legged Black Republican
Jim Wilson, of New Hampshire, who
nau superceded me.
| was transferred from The Surveyor
Generals Office in December, lS4s, to
the United States Senate, and driven
thcrefrom by the Abolitionists, in March,
J 80, no other objection having ever
been made TO me save that / was fol-
lower Of the South and doughiace for
such men as yourself, Clay and other
Southerners. II, therefore, | had no
other reason Tor sympathiziha with the
South, the bad treatment which / have
received at the hands Of Northern Aboli-
tionlsls would have made me do So But
upon the Coastit,tionat question, and
even upon that Of expediency, ] never
had a single doubt, - but il | had, my resi-
deace in this country and my knowledge
Of the effects of freeing the negroes in the
West Indies and in this Republic, would
certainly have made convert of me as it
has of every Enghshman, Frenchman,
German and other foreigners when have
ever met with in this country, and who
have seen the bad effects of abolition ts,ia ;.
i had hoped that Mr. Lincoln would
total dissent from the mad schemes of his
Abolition supporters, SO as TO avert the
dlsruptlpg tornado which | saw before |
left New York, last November, was about
TO cause dissolution of our heretofore
glorious Union. / believed from the
course which lie had purs ued with Doug
las, IN his campaign for Tie S+nute, III
hat ha
ly with AboliLionisn as lis Republican
supporters supposed, and therefore |
really preferred lli4 then and last fall TO
Douglas, whom knew 10 be an unprin-
-clpled demagague, and was making
speeches in the North to please Aboll-
tionists, and would then 20 South and
make dlscourses OF an opposite character.
To him more than to any other man in
our country protesting Democratic prin-
ciples or even Abolition doctrines is our
country indebted for the agitation if not
destruction OF our Union. But for him
and his friends, who broke up the Charles
ton Convention, q Democrat would have
been elected last fall to the Presidency,
and before another contest such an ar
langement would hayo been made as to
have prevented dissolution of the Union,
and perhaps civil war. My latest dates
are to the I'D February, and l tremble
at the thoughts of receiving other dis
patches, &c lest they shall announce the
existence of civil war. My prayers are
regularly offered up for the reunion of
the States, and for the peace, concord and
happiness of my country. But let what
may come to pass, you may rely upon it,
as you say, that neither 4 or mme ,c,H
eeer be .yQAm<l in the raaAs ot our (yont
e1taates. Aay God 4dimlhty areyt eirit
acar, bm u unhapotly II SHAFT come, you
may, datak aeoutd, do4dt (doub,less,
count on me and m,tne, and hosts of either
friends ssqading shoulder to shoHtder ~
the ranks tciM .yo3 and our other 4Southern
friends and relatives, yhose Rights, hhe
my crn, hare been disreyardea by the
Abolitionists.
/ love Iowa and Wisconsin for the hon
ors conferred by them on ME and because
served them Away faithfully, but l will
not make war with them against the South
whose rights they shamefully neglected.
Nor will | ever sanction any effort to
coerce the South to submit to the North
in reference to question Slavery with
which the North has no right to interfere
and that too in palpable violation Of the
Constitution of my country-the treaty
With France-the law of God himself and
every principle Of justice, reason and the
experience OF the world The history of
the world shows that negroes are wholly
unfit for selfgovernment-that they are q
thousand times happier as slaves in the
United States and elsewhere than when
free in their own na i've land Eyenthose
who are freed in the United States and
fho,r1 Ax,lo i