St. Mary's gazette., 1866-11-22
WEBSTER TO JOHN TAYLOR.

JOIN TAYLOR: Go ahead. The heart
of the winter is broken, and before the first
day of April all your land may be plough
ed Buy the oxen of Captain Marston, if
YOU think the price fair. Pay for the hay.
send you check for $3.50 for these two
objects Pu: the great oxen in condition
to be turned out and fattencd You have
good horse team: and think in addition
to this four oxen and D pair of four-y year
old steers will do your work. Ii you
think so then dispose Of the Stevens oxen
or unyokc them aud seud them to the pas
ture Cor beef. know not when | shall
see you, bu. hope before planting. II
you Iced anything, such rs guano, for in
stance, write to Joseph Breck, 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
pennyroyol crops "A little farm wei.
tiled is to a farmer the next best thing to
"a little wife well wiled" Cultivate your
garden Be sure to produce sufficient
quantities of useful vegetables. a man
may half support his family from good
garden. Take care to keep my m )thcr' S
garden in good order, even if it cost you
the wages of man to take care OF 1t. l
have sent you many garden seeds. Dis
tribute them among your ncighbors. Send
them to the stores in the village, that eve
ryboiy may have p,rt of them without
cost.
| am glad that YOU have chosen Mr.. Pike
representative He is a true man; but
there are in New Hampshire many per-
sons, who call themselves Wings, who are
no Wings at all, and no better than disun-
ionists. Any man who hesitatcs in granting
and securing to every part of the country
it's Just and its constitutional rights is an
enemy to the whole country.
John TAYLOR if one Of your boys should
say that he honors his father and mother,
and loves his brothers and sisters, but still
insists that one of them shall be driven
out of the family, what can you say OF
him but ths-that there is no real family
love in him? You and are farmers we
never talk politics our talk is of oxen
but remember this that any man who at
tempts to excite one part of the country
against another is just as wicked as he
would be who should attempt to get up a
quarrel between John Taylor and bis
ncichhor. old Mr. john Sanborn, or his
other ncighbor, 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 gene
raj conhagratiou. They do not follow the
things which make 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 |ir-
glnian has TO say that slavery ought to ex
ist in New Hampshire. This is question
left to every State to decide for itself; and
if we mean to keep the States together we
must leave to every State this power OF de-
Gliding for itself.
think | never wrote you a word before
upon politics. | shall not do it again. |
Only say love your country, your whole
country. and when men attempt to per
sladc you to get into a quarrel with the
laws of other States. tell them that you
mean to mind your own business, and id-
wise them to mind theirs. John Taylor.
YOU are a free man you possess good
principles you have large fa'nl j to rear
aud provide for by your labor BE thank
ful to the government which does not OPP
press YOU. which does not bear you down
hy excessive taxation, but which holds out
to YOU and to yours the hope OF all the
blessings which liberty, industry, and Sc
curlty may give john Taylor, thank
God, morning and evening. that You were
born in such country. John Taylor,
never write me another word upon Poii-
ties. Give my kindeSt remembrance 10
your wife and children aud when you
look trom your eastern windows upon 'he
graves of nv family, remember that he
who j. the author OF this letter must soon
follow them to another world,
DANIEL WEBSTER.