The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-05

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LEGATION o. s., Bogoto, N. Gu
May II, 1861.
M NOBLE AND VERY DEAR FRIEND
In consequence of the continuance of the no,
rible civil war which still continues to be wage
in this distracted and divided Republic, and th
interruption of all mail communication from
the United States and elsewhere did not re
ceive your kind and highly priced letter of th
6, Goth Of January last until the 18th ult, ant
y then at Honda, to which place REPAIRED mysel
q expressly for the purpose of receiving my dis
er patches, letters, newspapers, &C., which has
D, heard were there. It took me three days trav
u cling over almost impossible mountains to &c,
1T to Honda, but was we'll repaid for my trouble
as received some % letters from my wife and
n children, besides some 20 others from my Gov.
!" eminent and old friends, with some 200 news
!. papers, oil Of which have afforded me both
8 pleasure and heartfelt pain to read.
3 did not come across the vsledictory speeches
a of yourself, dear Clay, Mallory and Yulee until
) yesterday. devoured them all With greedy
, appetite, but not without the shedding of tears
dear friend, when read the farewell of your.
SELL especially as so pathetically expressed in
your last speech in the Senate, es we'll as in that
of the 10th of January, when you so beautifully
depicted to your fellow Senators and the world
the situation Of the country and the dangers
which were threatening it.
You may well say as you do in your letter to
me that you ''know you (D will synpath;ze with
Us (you.)"
How can feel otherwise, dear old friend, COL
lege mate and colleague, than sympathze 70. you
and the people whom you represent on such an
occasion. Born in what they tsuntingly call
free State (Indiana) brought up in Missouri and
! educated there and in Kentucky, and having re-
sided for the last "a years in Michigan, Wiscon
Sin and Iowa, cannot but be we'll acquainted
with the principles, feelings and actions of the |
parties to the contest which is now going on in
my beloved country.
When l went to Wisconsin, sir, sinawa
Mound, then Michigan, I took With me nv SER
wants, whom, at their requests, 1 purchased
they having been born in Illinois, and made
slaves under the ordinance of 1887. Abolition
isss' who like Doty, Bronson, Burnet, ct. al,
came to my house to share my hospitality, told
my slaves that they were free, and actually in
duced the ignorant, but happy Paul to believe
ne was free, and to bring suit for himself and
his sister Charlotte, both of whom YOU NAV re.
collect as they waited on you when you visited
US. l had vexatious and long law suit with {
Paul, but triumphed over him and bis abolition
advisers. served in Congress as Delegate from
Michigan and Wisconsin two years each. md .
was then beaten for the third term by Doty. be. ,
cause served as a second in the Cilley and
Graves duel, and was a slave owner.
In ls4l was removed from the Office of Sur. v
Veyor General of Wisconsin and Iowa BY Gen. h
darrlson's administration, through Dotys intlu +,
'nce as the then delegate, simply because was
Democrat and sympathized with the South &,
10 single objection having been made against y,
ne OF any other character. Mr.. Polk. God 7
'lees him, restored me in 1916, and put out the r.
ong legged black republican Jim Wilson. of -,
view Hampshire, who had superseded me. =,
l was transferred from the Surveyor Gener.
fs Office in December, ls4s, to the U. s. Sen. .,
te, and driven therefrom by the Abolitiouists =.
March, 1859, no other objection having ever
zen made to me save that was follower of :.
ne South and doughface for such men A. "
ourself, Clay and other southerners. If there. -
're' had no other reason for sympathizipe ~ ~
~
''n the South, the bad treatment which Ihaye
sceved at the hands of Northern Abolitionists ~,
ould have made me do so. But upon the Con. n.
'tus'onol question, and even upon that of ex. -:
ediency, never had a single doubt. but if ~ y.
d. my residence in this country and nv -.
0o"ledge OF the effects Of freeing the negroes a.
the west Indies and in this Republic, would d.
'rtainly have made convert of me % It has ~,
every Englishman, Frenchman, German and -.
her foreigners whom have ever met With in ~.
us country, and who have seen the bad effects ~.
Abolitionism so>
had hoped that Mr.. Lincoln vou,d have -
ociaimed soon after his election bis total dis
ns from the mad schemes of bis Abolition
pportera. 80 as to avert the disruptipe torn.. s
which saw before left New York last t.u
'vemoer was about to cause dissolution of W.,
heretofore glorious Union believed from .:s w..
course which he had pursued with Douglas ~. .o'
us campaign for the Senate in 1858 that he W.
y not imbued 60 thoroughly with Abolitioni.m 10 -.
MS Republican supporters supposed and there ''0
. l. really preferred him then and last fall to 'ol
'oslas whom knew to be an unprincipled sas
masogue and was making speeches in the oe,
nth to please Abolitionists and would then % an0
nth and make discourses of an opposite char pro
Ter. 10 him more than to any other man in oel
country protesting Democratic principles or en-.
IN Abolition doctrines is our country ;,doh. emu
for the agitation if not destruction IS ~. "er
ion. But for him and bis friends who h,.n
the Charleston Convent;o, ~ ''oAe Jes
A>~N ~.