The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-25
From the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis.
Governor Reynolds of ILLINOIS, 10 eo''
erncr Houston OF Texas


Hon. John Reynolds, once tho honored
Governor of Illinois, sends us the following
eren letter to Gov. Sam Houston, of Texas.
hoping, that if published. it may, by some
chance, fall into his hands. What happy
thing it would be for the American people
if these old patriots. North and South. could
or ce more be in council to aid in healing the
terrible wounds which are driving our Gov
eminent to perditon and our people to dis
fraction.
= Gov. Reynolds, in a private note to us,
says:
81 would be pleased if you would publish
the letter 1t may be drop in the bucket
to restore the country to its ancient viSor
and happiness-such as it was when l saw
you at Washington City.
II am for peace under any plan or able
adjustment the people will make. I think
q reunion is the plan of adjustment; but. in
the name of God, no more bloodshed to
crafty religious fanatic ISM"
: Things have taken fearful turn of late
IF any one had the faintest hope in President
Lincoln. as the last trust of those in author
ity at Washington, that hope IS eXtiEsulsh-
ed by his recent Annual NJ essage, and hence
there is no time to lose by those who be-
1ieve that his policy must, if successful,
once flowing with milk and honey" Dem
ocrafs, Of all other people, should at once and
without any further delay, if they intend to
oppose successfully the schemes of Eegro
Emancipation, which is thrown out as bone
of contention to last untH"19OO,' as fixed by
the President himself, should not sleep
inert at their posts. The President, with
supple and fanatical Congress, ready to do, or
to-sanction, any act tending toidestroy this
great people, with an army raised under the
.preteuse of saving the Union, with the whole
resources of the people at his command, can
. do vast deal to carry out his unbridled
will, before the people of the North, however
much opposed to his schemes, can arrest his
course. Let there be, then, general move
ment and work among the people to secure
and carry forward what we have gained at
the elections:
BELLEvILLE, ILL.,, Dec. s, 1862.
DEAR FEIEND:-I address you an open let
ter and hope it will have sufficient merit for
the press to circulate it. so you may see it.
see by the papers that you were forced
to abandon your home and take refuge in
the interior of your State. On your travel
the people called on you to address them,
and when you arose in the assembly to
speak, tears of sorrow for your country fell
profu- ely from your eyes.
NO 0OOC UldU-UO pdlIlOl-CaU IOOk dTOuDu
ut the misery and calamity the nation is at
this time suffering, without his heart b ing
moved to tears at the downfall of this
mighty empire and the consequent misery
of the people.
The above short notice of your address
forced wildly on my mind the youthful
days we spent together in the summer of
1910, il the college in Knox county, Ten
nessee, where we were students together at
the same institution of learning-wherein
the Rev. Isaac Anderson was the President.
l have not seen you since we were together
in the same college in 1910; but your pub
lie life is well known to me and the nation,
and it is highly appreciated by me.
we could not dream of the singular destiny
that attended Us in our eventful lives. We
both entered into the war of 1872 as privates,
and you-were soon prom oted, but l got no
higher ian Orderly Sergeant of the COM
pany of United States Rangers; hence, am
called, "@-'he Old Ranger"
We were both elected Governors of our
respective States, and were elected to Con-
gress for many sessions, but not at the same
time.
You were the hero of the independence of
Texas, and the country owes you the honor
and glory of being the father and founder of
nation. The battle of San Jacinto CROWN
ed your efforts. and you were the first and
foremost in that glorious struggle for nation
al existence. You exerted all your influ-
ence for annexation, and it was accomplish
ed. We held, 1 believe, the first public
meeting in America for the annexation of
Texas in Belleville, Illinois, and our labors
were approved by the nation.
When we were laboring with thousands |
of others for the interest and growth of the /
country, and the nation had reached the !
enormous amount of thirty-two millions of
inhabitants, and the influence of the Union
was felt in every nation on the globe, then
1t was that this fraternal war comm enced-
and the country is desolated, and, fear,
ruined forever. The history of mankind
presents no such war as the present in the
United States. 1 presume one-fourth of
million OF people has already been Destroy
ed in this war Of less than one years dura-
ton.
A religious fanaticism to emancipate the
slaves in the South is the cause Of the war,
and the radicals in the North will never
cease the war until every slave in America
be emancipated. if they have the power.
The country is ruined if four millions of
slaves are emancipated in the South. A
wal, of the two races would inevitably arise;
that would. if possible, be worse than the
present.
The power is with the people TO correct
the abuses of the present administration and
to restore peace and happiness to the coun-
try.
The late electious..show what the people
will do when they speak at the next cleo
lion for the Presidency. The Constitution
and the Government were formed by the
Democratic party, and that party alone is
the only power on earth that can restore the
country TO its original peace and happiness.
This hateful and abominable war must
cease ard friendly adjustment of the diff
fcnlties must be effected by the same feel