The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-07-15


ally induced the ignorant, but hoppy
t Paul to believe he was free, and to bring
f suit for himself and his sister Charlotte,
both of whom you may recollect as they
waited on you when you visited US.
, had a vexacious and long law suit with
Paul, but triumphed over him and his
abolition advisers. | served in Congress
as Delegate from Michigan and Wiscon.
sin two years each, and was then beaten
for the third term by Doiy, because |
, served as q second in the Gllley and
} Graves duel, and was a slave owner.
In 184l was removed from the Office
Of Surveyor General Of Wisconsin and
Iowa, by General Harrison's S administra-
ton, through Doty's influence as the
then delegate, simply because | was
Democrat and sympathizAd with the
South-no single objection having been
made against me of any other character.
Mr.. Polk, God bless him, restored me in
l845, and put out the long !e@gel black
Republicans, Jim Wilson. Of New Hamp-
shire, who had superseded me.
| was transferred from the Surveyor
Generals Office in December, f848. TO
the U. S. Senate, and driven therefrom
by the Abolilionists in March, 1859, no
other objection having ever been made
to me save that | was a follower Of the
South and doughface for such men rs
yourself, Clay and other Southerncrs. II.
4 therefore, had no other reason for sym
pathizins with the South, the bad treat
ment which have received at the hands
of Northern Abol,ionists would have
made me do so. But upon the Consti.
tMionai question, and even upon that Of
expediency, | never Lad a single doub,.
but if had, my residence in thi, coun-
try and my knowledge of The effects Of
freeing the negroes ia the West Indies
and in this Republic, would certainly
have mlde a convert Of me as II has OF
every Eugishman, Frenchman. German
and other foreigners whom | have ever
met with in this country, and who have
seen the bad effects Of .l5oiuionism
| hoped that Mr.. Lincoln would have
proclaimed soon after his election his 10.
tai dissent from the mad schemes Of his
/ Abolition supporters, SO as 10 avert tn:
disrupling tornado which | saw before
left New York las, November was about
to cause dissolution OF our therefore
! glorious Union | believe from the
course which he pursued with Douglas
in his campaign for the Senate in 1853
that he was not imbued SO thoroughly
with Abolitionism As his Republican
supporters supposed and therefore real
y preferred him then and last fall 10
Douglas whom knew to be an unprin.
cipIed demagogue and was meking
speeches in the North to please Abol
ticnists and would then @ South and
make discou:ses Of an opposite character.
To him more than any other man in our
country protesting Democratic prinei
Piles or even Abolition doctrines is our
country indebted for The agitation not
destruction of our Union. But for him
and his friends who broke up The Charles.
Ton Convention Democrat would have
been elected last Fall 10 the Presidency
and before another contest such IN ar
rangement would have been made as 10
have prevented dissolution Of the In
ion and perhaps civil war. My latest
dates are to the 22 OF February. and |
tremble At the thoughts OF receiving 9th.
er dispatches. dc, lest they shall an
i nounce the existence of civil war. Ny
prayers are regularly offered up for the
re union Of the States and for the peace.
concord and happiness Of my country.
But le; What may, come to pass, you
may rely upon il, as YOU say, that neither
Tor mine pU eeer Be fouai in HE ranks
of oar {yoYr) enemies My Gca IL!
mighty aeert eirh ,ear, 5at II aatappiy Il
shall come yoU may hiak ,oouid aoabt
+ (doubIless) eoum on lie AMI mine and
hosts of oAer friends standing shoulder 10
skouider III he ranks cM Vou AID our
other Southern friends and rel tres phose
rights hke ny o,rn hare been aiSrsqar9ea
by tie Abolisonists. | love Iowa and
Wisconsin for tie honors conferred by
them on me and because served them
always faihfully but will NOT make war
with them against the South whose
rights they shar.eiully neglected Nor
+ viii ever sanction any effort 10 coerce the
South 10 submit 70 tho North in refer,
enc 10 a question slavery } with which
the North has no right 10 Interfere anl
.ha, too in palpable violation Of the Con
sltuion Of my country the treaty with
France-the law of God himself and ev
cry principle OF justice, reason and the
experience of the world. The history of
the world shows that negroes are wholly
unti (or self-government-that they are
thousand times happier as slaves in the
United States and elsewhere than when
free in their own native land. Even those
who are freed in the United States aud
those stolen from the South and run of
into the North and in Canada are in
worse condition-ss in this Republic aud
4 in the West Indies than when slaves
+ Ii was and is so with the slaves whom |
took with me TO the North. and Paul ad
mitled 10 me that he never was SO well
fed or clothed or provided for after ho
/ got his freedom AS he was whilst he was
my slave. He denounced the Abolition.
lists who cheated him out OF his earnings.
and he begged me and my wife to let him
return TO us. but We would not because
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