The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-04-21
EDWARD EvkRKTT. Ns
ii, Hour Win MI. Rvsfsss,s Letters

From the New York ledger. eanatgoo oW \
Il Is an error that my associations have
hitherto been particularly ssexolusive and
aristocratic. ~ I;lconld easily show the
contrary. Ny political opponsnts have
charged this upon me for want Of any
thing else, and because ! was in Such .
position that it might have been 50 had ]
4 As to ..lecturipg, > I began il forty years
ago, and was the first individual Id the
country to give 3 start to lecturing on
popular topics to miscellaneous audiences:
and I have probably done more Of this
kind Of work grataitously, than all the
other lecturers put together Itiis but
lately that it has begun 10 pay.-Adrch
10, 1862. f9s. tZH 9dt nIiduE OF bsycnIor
The friendly critic says that L am trfrare-
" 1t . loss in extempoFaneons dehate.pioI
do not think that the man lives, or ever
lived, who ever saw mo in fault on, any
occasiono when it. Has proper o. 4 shodA
speak. For many years. On pablo occa-
sions. (which several speakers we're en-
gagged to speak, / wa. generally. asked to
close, thereby giving all who, preceded me
the advantage of pre- occupying the popu.
Lar topics. I not only egged of from
that position, but |, never Mlled to make
proper allusion to the striking points Of
my predecessors. You may Judge how
far this is consistent with ihcapacity for
extemporaneous efDftt. -ANgs 7,1se3.asd
10 + have never given these gentlemen,
tabusive editors, ] nor, / think, any human
being, just cause Of personal hostility
June 26, 1861.same1 goa,rol aid go,fo OfD 0f
owThis is the third child that !, have fol-
lowed to tho grave. besides an infant born
in my absence from home. whom I never
saw. 1t is hard thing for q father, in
the decline of life, =, to lose those who
should naturally support him in lis own
descent TO the tomb; but ], strive to bear
with resignation whatever the Great Dis
poser sees best for me.-Noo. 81, 1861.
II is now nearly 10 O'Clock Sunday
morning, and / invariably attend church
morning and afternoon Nov. "a, 1851. .
'1h It Is not possible for candidate, 30 far
'as he is individually concerned, to regard
an election with greater indifference than
do that Of this day week; or, rather, as
it affects me personally, to wish more un-
affectedly not to succeed. I cannot deny
that think the election of the Union
ticket CBell and Everett by far the safest
result for the country !; and wonder that
our Democratic friends, seeing the impos-
sibility of electing their own candidates,
did not prefer Mr.. Bell to Mr.. Lincoln. I
look with anxiety to the future, and derive
my chief comfort from knowing. that
wisdom beyond that Of falible man controls
the fortunes of nations as wen as individ-
uals. "@Od. 80, 1880 ll''as d 81 ha9ni'i''D
/ answer: The government must be
heartily sustained by all good citizens.
This war 10 defensive. -Apfis %, 1851
NV I occasionally get q letter myself charg-
ing me with inconsistency in supporting
the war; The writer probably has not
asked himself what conservative men at
the North onght to have done when the
South oil icommsnced 1.-the gllwar, b firing
on; unarmsd provision ships, lombard
ing and ocapturing o fort Of the United
States, (and no thanks, to them that
every man, in it. was not murdered }
threatening, on the same day, by their
Secretary Of, War, that, before the first of
May, their flag should float on the Capitol,
and, i, that was resisted, in due time on
the top Of Faneuil Hall. Was I still to
plead for peace while JEFF. Daviss red-hot
cannon balls were playing over my daugh-
ters house at Washington, and my own in
Boston FEB. 8, 1858 ss72sb 5ijaii&,
- Early Id the war / began to receive let
ters nom my European correspondents,
some Of them men in high position, on
passing events. These letters, and some
times, but very rarely, my answers to them,
! / communicated from time to time to Mr..
Seward ito be shown to the President.
iAs Mr.. Seward has always been personally
on friendly terms with me, this seemed
matter of course. b Besides, the law for
bids citizeh without the consent of the
gOEernmenE to carry on correspondence
With q foreign government, with an inten-
ton Of influencing them. Three of my
correspondents are members of the govern
ments Of France and England, and I GER
tainly Intended, as far as in my power, to
influence them. It is true, / did not cup
pose that the penalties of this law would
be enforced against me; but am so hor-
ribly "old fogy," that l do not like, in 1
very grave udGlOudl m8LCcf4, 10 act IN I
habitual violation Of the. law, particularly
when a'compliance with it promises, in
however slender degree, to benefit the
country.-April Is, 1862. yq assa
=. So long as we were united and strong
no European power, nor all the powers of
Europe together, would think of attempt.
ing our ACKNOWLEDGMENT. But, as things
are, what is to prevent the success of such
q movement as Benjamin attributes to L.
Napoleon? There was very strong feel
ing in Texas, in 1874 40, in favor of set
ting up for themselves Cor, rather, against
annexation to the United States, for they
were already independent of Mexico) and
grasping the Mexican territory west of
them to the Pacific. They could easily
have done it, and with the gold of Califor
MIA, which would have been theirs, would
have started up at once a great power.
All this know from the highest authority.
Gen. Houston, however, aspired to be
President of the United States. and that
decided the question of annexation. But