Year: 1863

During the past year, Mr.. Lincoln appointed
Daniel F. Miller to the United States Supreme
Bench. from the State Of Iowa. In November
last. the Judge was invited to attend grand
jubilee of the friends Of constitutional liberty
and the Union" and, from his letter. declining
the invitation on account of professional en-
gagements. we make the following extracts,
which have the true ring of genuine patriotism
aud are free from fanatical prejudices:


a an an old Clay Wing. IS you all know.
and when that party went down, l united with
the Republicans, in the hope and belief that it
would succeed 10 all the loyal and national
virtues of the Wing party. and that we should
have Wing principles and policy prevail under
another name. But l got more than l bar.
gained for. 1t was not in the covenant that
We should have civil war as consequence of
Republican success that the public treasury
was to be plundered by wholesale. that free
soil in loyal States should be covered By
martial law. that free speech should be
chained in the dungeon of the bastile, that
free homes should be sacked to desolation.
and free men should be confined, in the
practical application. to the negroes of the
South. and the abolition wing of the North
No. We old Wings, in uniting with the Re.
publican party, did not consent to be party
10 any such violations of the Constitution
Had the counsels of General Scott, Millard
Fillmore, John J. Crittendeu. STEPHEN \
Douglas, and indeed of all the wise and good
of our nation. been needed we would not now
be afflicted with the civil war that is upon us.
They could not have prevented South Carolina
at her attempt at revolution, but the Crtten-
den proposition would have saved all the rest
OF the Southern States, and, long before this.
at tritiing expense OF money, and at q small
loss OF life, that rebellious State would have
been humbled before the flag Of the Union.
Gentlemen, it is the mission of the Demo
cratic party to save the Union.


] 1t has always been a loyal national party :;
it has ever upheld constitutional law as the
only safeguard of freedom. 1t was the party
that hurled from power the authors of the alien
and sedition laws of sixty years ago. and for
all that period they guided our ship of State
successfully and goriously through the waves
of civil commotion and the dangers Of foreign
wars


1 regard the Clay Wing party, and the
Douglas Democracy. as genuine branches of
the old Democratic party of l79S.


The result for the last eighteen
months, demonstrates clearly the necessity of a
change of rulers; and as old Wings claim to
love their country more than party, hope
they will all speedily unite under the Demo
cratic flag, for the salvation Of the Union.


Respectfully yours.


DANIEL F. MILLER.


These are the sentiments that should actuate
all right thinking men, who have the good aud
glory of our country at heart Let the true
men of the Union unite with the true Democ-
racy, the only national political organization
of the United States, aud, by individual coun-
sells and one grand effort, save our country
from the hand of misrule, plunder, fraud and
corruption of the reignng powers


The Herald says the total receipts at the
Custom House during the month of March
foot up S397,l04, which is the largest amount
ever received, except in the month of August,
1852. OF this amount, less that $4,000 was
in legal tenders. At the office of the Collector
of Internal Revenue in this city, there was
received during the above period, the sum of
S25,157 SO. There was also sold BY the
Collector of Revenue stamps TO the value of
$4,000.