The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-28
DANIEL WEBSTER'S LETTER TO
JOHN TAYLOR.

Auc iOllOWluS interesting lcLLcT Is lTOul tuc
Private life of DANIEL WEBSTER" and was
addressed to the overseer of his farm at Frank
lin, N. 81. We saw it the other day printed in
letters of gold and handsomely framed, in
gentlemans parlor. If we had all acted in ac-
cordance with its golden maxims, the country
never would have been drenched in fraternal
blood. l-ED. PIONEER.
LETTER TO JOHN TAYLOR.
WASHINGTON, March II, 1852.
Go ahead. The heart of the winter is
broken, and before the 1st day of April
all your land may be plowed. Buy the
oxen of Captain Marston, if you think the
price fair. Pay for the hay. 1 send you
a check for $3.50, for these two objects.
Put the great oxen in a condition to be
turned out and fattened. You have a
good horse team, and l think in addition
to this, four oxen and pair of four-year
old steers will do your work. Ifyou think
so, then dispose of the Stevens oxen, or
unyoke them, and send them to the pas
ture for beef. l know not when | shall
see you, but hope before planting. If
you need anything, such as guano, for in
stance, write to Joseph Buck, Esq, Bos-
ton, and he will send it to you.
Whatever ground you SOW or plant, see
that it is in good condition. We want no
penny royal crops. GA little farm well
titled is to a farmer the next best thing
to little wife well willed." Cultivate
your garden. Be sure to produce sufficient
quantities of useful vegetables. A man
may half support his family from a good
garden. Take care to keep my mothers
garden in good order, even if it cost you
the wages of man to take care of it. l
have sent you many garden seeds. Dis
tribute them among your neighbors Send
them to the stores in the village,-that
everybody may have part OF them with
out cost. l am glad that you have chosen
Mr.. Pike Representative. He is true
man; but there are in New Hampshire
many persons who call themselves Wings
who are no Wings at all, and no better
than DisuniOnists. Any man who hesi-
tates in granting and securirgsto every
part of the country its just and its Consti-
tutional rights, is an enemy to the whole
country.
John Taylor: If one of your boys should
say that he honors his father and his moth
er, and loves his brothers and sisters, but
still insists that one of them shall be dri-
ven out Of the family, what can you say
of him, but this, that there is no real
family love in him ?-You and l are farm
ers; we never talk politics; our talk is of
oxen; but remember this-that any man
who attempts to excite one part of the
country against another, is just as. wicked
as he would be who should attempt to get
up quarrel between John Taylor and his
neighbor, old Mr.. John Sanborn, or his
other neighbor, Captain Burleigh. There
are some animals that live best in the fire,
and there are some men who delight in
heat, smoke, combustion, and even con-
flagration. They do not follow the things
which make for peace. They enjoy only
controversy, contention and strife. Have
no communion with such persons, either
as neighbors or politicians. You have no
more right to say, that slavery ought not
to exist in Virginia, than a Virginian has
to say that slavery ought to exist in New
Hampshire. This is a question left to ev-
cry State to decide for itself; and if we
mean to keep the States together, we must
leave to every State this power of deciding
for itself
l think never wrote you word be-
fore upon politics. l shall not do it again.
only say love your country, and your
whole country and when men attempt to
persuade you to get into quarrel with
the laws of other States, tell them s'that
you mean to mind your own business" :"
and advise thenIo' to mind theirs. John
Taylor, you are free man; you possess
good principles; you have large family
to rear and to provide for by your labor.
Be thankful to the government which does
not oppress you, which does not bear you
down by excessive taxation, but which
holds out to you and to yours the hope of
all the blessings which liberty, in-
dustry and scrutiny may give. John
Taylor, thank God, morning and evening,
that you were born in such a country:
John Taylor, never write me another word
upon politics. Give my kindest remem-
brance to your wife and children and
when you look from your eastern win
dows, upon the graves of my family, re-
member that he who is the author Of this
letter must soon follow them to another
world. DANIEL WEBsTEB.
A Visit to Marshfield and the Grave
of Webster.
Correspondence of the Springfield Republican.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. l6, 1864.