Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-03-28
Prom In, Msbiis Register.
A PRECIOUS RELIC,


Through the courteous attention Of friend We are en-.
sbled 10 lay before the readers Of the Mobile Sunday
Rssistsr letter. which from the name Of the writer
and that Of the recipient well from lie contents will
be perused With neres. in every section Of the country
To the best Of knowledge this letter has been
published and print from the autograph can
vouch both for its genuiness and correctness. What
grander epsph inscribed to the memory Of the lament.
ed Paulding than this patriotic blessing to the dying CAL
houn! What fearful oastigation could be admins
tered to the leader OF the Abolition cohorts than this
portrait of him by Of the pursst and most distin-
guished men Of his own S,atsf
The speech Of the great South Carolnisn which call
cd forth this earnest response from the friend and col
aboraor Of Washington Irving and one Of the pioneers
OF American literature hs last and greatest effort on
the political stage, uttered when the tide OF bis glorious
life was fast sinking to It's ebb, and when the hlenng
body refused to support the weight of that great mind
Mr. Pauldings letter reached him his death bed only
few days before his dissolution.
Hrpz PAX, DUcHIss Co, March 10, 1850.
M DE.R Sir: have received and read your speech
with the deepest interest and attention Is traces ue
present crisis to s sourcs and points oIt the means OF
avoiding m With perfect cearness, Without
declaration and without passion IL appeals TO our rea.
and asks only justice I! will not perhaps DO 80 mu'h
praised some Others but hereafter when it predo-
tons will be fulnled as presume they will be ere long,
unless the spirit of fanacism 10 efectuay checked 10
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danger and pointed GU. the only by which II could
Do avoided. II gives pleasure 10 see that you take
the same ground with exception, which assumed
in pamphlet had prepared on the same subject, but
for which could fad publisher was also DESTROYS
OF publishing second edition Of work OF mine on
slavery Of print but met by the same obsa-
Gle The literary well as the political press snthrsl
in the North and audi alrs parton becomes an oosc-
lete maxim.
II you will permit me- will suggest to you doubt Of
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pose for the future safety Of the South, which will be
equally denounced with the Constitution a. violations
Of the Law OF God and the IghH Of nature by the ana-
tics They will be but burnt ak In their fiery furnace
mention this because Il would that several OF the
Of the South not prepared to 90 with
you to that extent; and a have formerly stated,
think unanimty Of the las! cons.q 10 the South
I, Astonshes me to see the distinction Of parties still
kept up In that quarter and that when such momentou
interests at stake instead Of smbsrkng to man In
one bottom, each ssizs bis own plank and paddles
| away In different directions.
cannot express the contempt and disgust with which
have read the speech Of Senator Seward, Though
Just what expscted from him. He is Of the mo1
dangerous insects that erawled about In the po'
cal atmosphere for he 10 held In such utter cortemp. BY
all honest that notice is taken OF him I'll! his sting
ia felt Hs only QUILTED 20 play the mcsi despcabl
parts in the political drama, and the only possible way
10 can acqnre disdncon is by becoming thc tool o
greater scOundrsls than himself Some years ago, sfer
disgrAoing the Ssta OF New York 0hisf Magistrate
be found hs level in the lowest depths Of insghfc.nct
ard oblivion, and was dropped BY bis own party. Bu
the mud has been lately stirred at the very bottom
the pool and he who went down mnlsted tadpole ha
come up full grown bufrog, more noisy aud impuden
than This Ia very often tho osee among us here
where nothing is more common than to see swindlnt
rogue AFTER his crimes have been little rus!ed by time
suddenly become otect OF popular favor or executive
patronage. TIE position taken and the principles asserted
oy this petoggng rogue in hs speech would disgrac'