Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-14
Cnwriseen Eist0ry.

Unwritten Eistory.
Nr. Alexauder Il. Steveus has written the
Glowing letter to the editor of the New vrk
il}raid:
have noticed, in late issue ofyour paper,
a. article by Hon. Thurlow Weed, entitled
"Aa Unwrttao Chapter nt History" in which
Mr. Weed gives ''narrutlue of how the
!ieraMs Influence a1as obtained for President
LitcJla's administrator" After relating tac
incidents which preceded his arrival at MIR.
B1nnetts mansion on the Heights, the follow
iug s"n;erces occur.
I'VE then walked for half an hour around
the or undS, weH a ScryaDt came aod an-
ueune"cs diuucr The dinner was frugal one,
during which uni the fruit was served, we
h Id general conversation. [ then frankly In
iormed him OF the object Of my visit, closing
tn the remark .ha, MIR. Loculn deemed 1t
mere important TO secure the Herald support
lhao to obtain a victory in the f:ld. MIR. Ben
'.ctt replied that the abolitionists, aided by
Wing mem bers of Congress, had provoked a
war, Of the iaugcr of waicA he had b eu warn
iag the ccu4;ry for years, and that now, when
trey were reapipg what they had sowu, they
lad no right TO call upon him to help them out
O difficulty that they had deliberately brought
Il on themselves.
Il listened without interruption tor ten MN.
utcs 10 o bitter dcnunclation OF Greeley, Gar
ciscu Seward. Suu,ucr, Giddings, Phillips
AID myself, as having, BY irritating aud cxas-
rcratiug the South, brought the war upon the
c,uptry. [ thcu. III reply without denying or
attempting to explain any of his positions,
stated the whole question from our standpoint.
Informed him of facts and circumstances
within my own knowledge. showing conclusive
y the deliberate designs OF severlng the Uu!on
prevent California !r,ni coming intc the
!uon as free Stare. lyave him the then an
l.go,cn particulars Of an antercieaO of 1Hessrs.
ToriJ,s Stephens and Chngn.an, members Of
fvuyr.Ss tram Gcorylu and North Cdrohna,
ruh General Taylor. The ol5ect Of that inter
r,ctr rts to mducc General Tny'or a Southern
v.rn dnd sl;rehok'cr torto TIE bill permitting
C,thIormiu to enter the Union as u free State.
union on one huud and Of hanging on the other
Thc E,cts 10ere communicated to Senator Hum,
Tim Of Naine and nyseJ uuhm ten minutes
after the tntcrpieaU closed,
put tie last part OF this extract IN ltalcs.
It is the ouIv matter in this 'chapter OF ms.
tory" that | wish at this tim; to notice; and
the only noto4 | wish to take of it is to assure
Mr.. Weed and ali your readers that no such
;a!crvicW Of Messrs Toou,bs. CllDgman and
lDvsalf ever took place with General lay
lor. iiow he and Dir. Hamlin could have
been informed within ten minutes after OF
the particulars Of 40 interview which novcr
occurred l do not know; but | do know |
uc2cr asked General Taylor to veto any bill
whatever during his administration | know
also, and the records show 1t, that the oi!l per
hitting California to enter the Unlon IS frao
Safe did not pass Congress until after Gone!a!
'iayor's death; | do, moreover, know that |
aid my colleague, M.. Toombs favored the al
mission OF California as a free State urder her
then constitution duripg the wlole OF that
storny session. This the records will also show.
W. never raised au objection to the admission
OF California on account of her antl-slavery con-
sti,u;ion. In one of the stormlest debates l
ever heard in the House ofRepresa my
colleague, Mr.. Toomts said :-"We DO DOT op-
pose California on account OF the anti-saVery
cause in her constitution. Ii was her night,
aud am not prepared to say that she acted
unwiscy 10 it's x 'rcise that is her business.
What he aod | maintained w.s that the same
riyits which the free people OF California had
exercised for themselves in forming their constl-
tuition should be equally secured to the tree peo-
pic Of Other Territories OF the Unlted States
when they came to form their constitutions.
How far this portion o! Mr. Weeds nara
tive may nave lhHu iHclu tHc oou % VI '"I A
aid toward MIR. Liucoln's administration know
not but | do most solcmnly protest against It's
bcirg received as correct item ln the nistory OF
this country.
MYSTERY OF DREAMS. 1t is related that
man fell asleep as the clock toled the hrst
stroke cf twelve. Ho awakened ere the echo
Of Tho twelfth stroke had died away, having,
IN the Interval. dreamed that he committed
crime, vas detected after five years, tried and
ciu.!cmned; the shock Of finding the halter
about MS neck aroused him to consciousness,
when ho discovered that all these events bad
happened in an iu6atesimal fragment OF time
Mohammed, wishing to illustrate the wonders
of sccp. told how a certain man, being shelk,
ioaud himself, for bis pride, made a poor fish
orman; that he lived as one tor sky years,
bringing up a family aud working hard; and
how, upon waking up from this long dream,
so short time had he been asleep that the
narrow ncckcd goutd bottle filled with water,
which he knew ho overturned as he fell asleep,
had not time in which to empty itself. How
fast the soul travels when the body Is asleep =!
Often, WHOM We awake, we shrink from going
back into the dull routine OF sordld existence,
ra2rcttng the plca5anter iiio of dreamland.
IL w Is t that sometimes, when We go into o
strange place, We fancy that We have seen IL
before Is ii possible that when oae has been
asleep the soul hes foatcd away, seen the place,
aud has that memory of it which so surprises
us2 Iu word how far dGal is the lic OF
man. how far not