The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-27
Remarkable Letter from the Hon. Robert j.
Walker, the Author of"Our Financial sys'

Remarkable Letter from the Hon. Robert j.
Walker, the Author of 81 Our Financial Sys-
tem," on the Great Questions of the Day, Etc
At the great conservative meeting held In
New York on the anniversary of the birth of
Washington, last Thursday evening, the FOL
lowing letter was read from the Hon b. J.
Walker. one of the most influential Union men
during the war
PHILADELPHIA, February %, 1865.
Simeon Draper, Esq:
Detained from the great Union meeting by
circumstances beyond my control, l must al
dress it GEOGRAPHICALLY, and not as ana ail e
the fall of Sumter. President Johnsons veto
opens the new campaign in favor OF the Union.
| 1t arrests the overthrow of the States and the
concentration of all power in one consolidated
military despotism 1t prevents tne expulsion s sOo
of eleven States from the Union, and the cree
ton of eleven Irelands within its limits, TO DE
controlled and oppressed by military power.
1t prevents the quartering large stahulnS
army and hosts of officials in the South, win
an enormous increase of our debt, to be 1ol-
lowed surely by oppressive taxation, or as
honoring and disgraceful reputation. III pre-
vents the defeat of the plans OF the secretary
of the Treasury for the funding and reduction
of the public debt, and safe and graduai
return to specie payments. Republication Is
disgrace and ruin, and the probable extinction
Of republican institutions throughout the
world.
This result, or large standing armies and
oppressive taxation, caused by the policy OF
the Presidents opponents, would produce an
earthquake CONFUSION 1t would quadruple
the excise and income tax blight every HELD
becalm every vessel break every bank ana
railroad, and ruin every factory in the coun-
try. 1t dissolves the Union, destroys the
Constitution, and erects a military despotism
upon it's ruins. 1t would postpone, perhaps
| Indefinitely, the transfer of the command OF
| the commerce and exchanges OF the world from
Europe to America. European despots would
exult, while the friends of freedom in the Old
World, and especially in Ireland and Ger
many, would weep tears OF blood. Johnson Is
walking in the footsteps OF jackson and Lin
coin, and teaching their sentiment: The Union
shall be preserved. The prolonged govern
ment Of eleven States as conquered provinces,
enforcing taxation without representation,
would permanently ALLEVIATE the South from
the North. 1t might drive them 10 madness
and despair, and renew the civil war when our
credit and resources were exhausted. we
have emancpated, through great constltu-
tional amendment, carried only by Johnsons
policy, four millions of negroes.
Let us not attempt to enslaye eight millions
of our erring white brethren OF the South.
They will all welcome death before such a
state as this. have fought all my life against
secession and disunion in the South, ana
renew the contest against it in the North.
Congress has no constitutional power to dis
solve the Union; and to condemn eleven
States to territorial pupilage is dissolution OF
Southern disunionists. Johnson's policy alone
can practically restore the Union. 1t has
already crushed the heresy Of secession at the
South, and 1t alone has secured unconstitutional
majority for the abolition Of slavery. III the
heresy of secession is crushed at the South, and
emancipation secured, the browning glory
rests upon the head Of Andrew johnson.
Slavery and secession-our only discordant ele-
ments-being thus extirpated, the Johnsonian
policy will 60 on conqucring and TO conquer,
not by the sword but by wisdom and magma
nimity 1t will subdne At the South passions
and prejudices it will touch their hearts and
conquer their affections.
We shall hear no more of exceptional and
individual acts of INSTRUMENTATION, for we
shall have q union of interest and affection; a
union of States with States, and not with
conquered provinces. We shall have the
union and representation of all the States as
ordained by the Constitution. We shall have
a cordial, fraternal, an ever-expanding, an
ompipotent, an indissoluble and perpetual
union. Men of the South, from Virginia to
Texas, close up the ranks, and fight harder to
get into the Union than you ever did TO get
out of it. You fought us under the secession
to get out Of the Union. Come now, our
erring but still much loved brethren OF the
South, and reassemble with us again at the
political family altar at Washington. Come
with loyal hearts under the flag Of our sires,
and Ia the music of the Union, and we will
rive YOU a cordial welcome. Come, and the
recording angel will blot out, in reconciliating
tears. the memory Of human follies and frail-
ties The people on whom Johnson has always
relied are with him, and will welcome back
all loyal Unionists TO seats In both Houses OF
Congress. n. J. WALKER.
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