The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-17

From the Burlington, Iowa. Hawkeyel
LEGATION Z. s., BoGoTA, N. g.
May II, 1861
My Noble and veyy Dear Friend:
In CONSEQUENCE Of the continuance of the
horrible civil war which still continues to be
waged in this distracted and divided Repub-
lie, and the interruption of all mail communi-
cation from the United States and elsewhere,
did not receive your kind and Mhghly priced
letter Of the goth of January last, until the
18th ult, and then at Honda, to which place
repaired myself expressly for the purpose of
receiving my dispatches letters, newspapers,
&c, which had hoared were there 1t took
me three days travelling over almost impassa-
bic mountains to get TO Honda, but / was
we'll repaid for my trouble, as l received some
txenty-eight letters from my wife and child
rem, besides some seventy others from my gov
ernment and old friends, with some two hund-
red and nine newspapers, all of which have
afforded me both pleasure and heart felt pain
to read
/ did not come across the valedctory speech
as of yourself, dear Clay, Mallory and Yulee,
until yesterday. | deVoured them all wi. h
greedy appetite, but not without the shedding
of tears, dear friend, when l read the farewell
of yourself, especially is so pathetically ex-
pressed in your last speech in the Senate, as
well as in that of the 10th of January, when
asors and the world, the situation of the coun-
try and the dangers threatening it.
You may well say as you do in your letter
to rne that you "know you (I) will sympathize
with us (you.)
How can fssl otherwise, dear old friend,
college mate anCi colleague, than sympathizs
for you and the people whom you represent on
such an occasion. Born in what they taunt-
ingly call free State, Indiana brought up
r. nj nd nHt ako1 4h =.
tucky, and having resided for the last thirty
four years in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa
cannot but be well acquainted with the prin-
cples, feelings and actions of the parties to the
contest which is now going on in my beloved
country.
When / went to Wisconsin, Sinsinawa
Mound, then Michigan, 1 took with me my
servants, whom, at their request l purchased,
they having been born in illinois, and made
slaves under the ordinance of 1881. Abolition
lists 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
be was Free and TO bring suit for himself and
his sister, Charlotte, both of whom you may
recolleet, as they waited on you when you Wis
tied US. | had vexatious and long lawsuit
with Paul, but triumphed over him and his
Abolition advisers. 1 served in Congress as
0eieBdto lTOu I'll anu w lscOnSlO TWO
years each, and was then beaten for the third
term by Doty, because served as second in
the Cilley and Graves duel, and was slave
owner.
In ls4l was removed from the office Of
surveyor general of Wisconsin and Iowa BY
Gen. Harrison's administration, through Doty's
influence as the then delegate, simply because
/ was Democrat and sympathized with the
the South-no single objection having been
made against me of any other character. Mr.
Polk, God bless him, restored me in ls45, and
put out the long-legged Black Republican
Jim Wilson of New Hampshire who had su.
perceded me.
was transferred from the surveyor gener
ais Office in December, ls4s, to the United
States Senate, aud driven therefrom by the
Abolitionists in March, 1859, no other obiec
tion having ever been made to me save that
was follower of the South, and doughface
for such men as yourself, Clay, and othel
= Southerners. If, therefore, l had no othe
reason for sympathizing with the South, tn,
bad treatment / have received from Northern
Abolitionists would have made me do so. Blu
upon the constitutional question, and ever
upon that of expediency, never had singl,
doubt but if / had, my residence in the coun
try and my knowledge of freeing negroes il
the West Indies ard in this Republic, woulC
certainly have made convert of me as it ha
OF every EngnshmanI Frencnman, Gesmal
and other foreigners whom l have met with
in this conntry, and who have seen the bar
effects of aboliGionism.
had hoped that Mr. Lincoln would hav
proclaimed soon after his election his total dis
sent from the mad schemes of his abolitio
I supporters, so as to avert the tornado which
saw before / left New York, last November
+ was about to cause a dissolution of our hereto
fore glorious Union. l believed from tn
course which he had pursued with Douglas i
his campaign for the Senate in 1858 that b
was not SO thoroughly imbued with abolition
ism as his Republican supporters supposed, an
Z therefore j really preferred him then ar d la,
fall to Douglas whom knew to be an III
principled demagogue, and was maxim
speeches in the North to please aboiitionist
and would then go South and make speechi
of an opposite character. To him more tha
to any otner in our country professin
democratic principles, or even abolition do
trines, Is our country indebted for the agit
ton, if not destruction Of our Union. But