Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-20
CORRESPONDENCE.


Correspondence Of the Baltimore Daily Commercial
| NASHEGToy, October 18th. 1866.
1he declarations of the President TO the Soutb
Carolina delegation Friday last and tha v.boIo
spirit and temper of the interview ON hath idns will
be hailed with gratulaionS from one end of nr wild
spread country to the other, and may add ;brouI
| out the world. They fully demonstrate tnat tIo
President, in his address weeks ago to the Iae
| gathering of SOutherners who called at the Wbilr
House. only gave utterance to his deliberate conv.
tons and fixed intentions. That address has becD
translated INTO every language in Europe and Iuh-
shed W eJ7cSo, and everywhere it has been received
as furnishing the most irrcfarable evidence that tbr
Union Is restored in heart and soul as well as in law
Inc report Of the interview Of Friday last will con
urn the public opinion Of mankind in these imprcs-
Slons The effect Of the former declarations to the
Southernera was attcstcd by the immediate advance
ol American securities in all the money markets OF
the W"rld and We may confidently calculate TINT the
influence of the more recent utterancc> Of the prc-
dent Will not be less marked or less suutary.
Those low groveIling souls who are incapable Of
rising to the dictates of pure and disntcretcd pa-
tFotSnl, and who Judge the President by the yenai
rule prescribed for themselves, will nope feel re
oukcd BY this noble declaration:
II can be instrumental in restoring the Govern
mentto ITS former relations with cyery part of the
tnon' and can onysce The PEOPLE once more united
and happy. my highest aspiration and the mos, ear
nest desire OF my heart will be fulfilled
1hcSc are memorable words; the American pcorlc
will accept them. and scatter to the winds thc fall,
and malignant imputaions which would ass,iI the
motives of Andrew johnson in his truly patriotic AMI
national policy.
Among all the uttcranc"s of our pablic men have
hcard OF nothing more akin to these patriotic and
harlnonizns expressions of the President than fhc
speech oi our enlightened and public spirited follow
cltlIen john W, Garr~tt to the Odd Fellows of lhc
tnltct SineS. 1t was fortunate for the country al
large that Mr.. Garrett was invited 10 make that ,l
dress oi welcome. His quick pcrcaptiun and pr,cti-
cal wisdom enabled him to see that the occasion Wi.
100 important u be made mere time Of holiday dis
play and transory mutual compliment; # was =
day for serious reflection and discussion: and all
thoughtful and patriotic men will rejoice that the
President of that great corporation whose work ~,
the most important connecting line: Of travel i con-
stantiy felt ia the South, the West the East and the
North, ayalcd himself of the opportunity to make
such speech in the interests of the niun and ho
Government, and of restoring the old feelings of f,I
Iowship and fraternity.
Ii mas been copied into most of the leading iour-
mails throughout the South AMI Southwest especially
and mas called forth from many distinguished and
influential Union men in the lately reyoItad States
the warmcSt expressions Of gratitude and almra-
hon, and OF = determination on hcirpart to rcripra-
cate the good feelings which animated the author
1t Is such speech as shows the immense Supcrpri-
ty OF a sagacious and wcil-nformci practical man
over the busy herd Of politicians who lavish upon
merely partzan ends their time and energies: inslo-
rously sacrificing 10 their own personal advance
mcnt the good Of their fellow citizens
Another statcsmanlikc public address WA that re-
Gently made at Fort Wayne. Indiana by the Sccrc-
tary OF tue Treasury the finances Of our country
lie deals with questions which come hpIn" To- the
business OF every nan in America and presents his
views with the clcarnoSS and force Of man who is m
earnest. However men may differ as to some nf the
suggestions of Mr.. McCuloch all must accord to him
high credit for the dstincucss and clulorwiH which
they are presented, and the sound and Instructive
general principles by which they arc acrompanirl
as well as the accuracy of his statements and the lust
ness of his rcasDnings.
These are the qualtic, which command the per
manent approval of the American people: quite
above the Fictitious regulations Of The dcyaimcrs of
the hustingS who au at tickling the car with fine
phrases or empty rhodomontadc. And how much
more worthy Of statesmen di,courSeS of this Gle
waited kind than some to which the public have been
treated by leaders party, bY asprant to leader
ship.
This abstinence from the practices of Il party poll
tcian pervadcs the whole administrative conduct of
Mr.. McCulloch. LonXrr o.,