Year: 1861

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and dollars Of the seventeen hundred were pre-


sented to Millyn consideration Of what she ha,
passed through, and the remainder was divide,


around.


On that very spot is now thriving town


and one Of the finest residences in the place i


that where dwells MIlly Dean and her hus


band.


The British Anii-Siavery Party


Letter from DIR. Cartwright, Oi


New Orleans.


New ORLEANS, Jan. 4, 1861.


DR.. j j. Touson, Davenport Lotea:


! My DEAR FRIEND p.-Your letter OF the 29tl


ult., begging me to speak a word in behalf 0


our distracted country, has been received. While


man of your learning and requirements. occu


pying stand point apart from those engaged II


angry political strifes, cannot see what is driving
the Southern StVtes out Of the Union, l feal
there is no hope that the less intelligent masses
of the North, blinded by passion and prejudice,
will ever be able to perceive IL until after the
Union is severed, and the smoke and dust clear
ed away. Then they will be able to see Il fear
my dear friend, not until then, that they sever
ed the Union themselves by whiting the Fed
eral Government into sharp stick TO punch
holes in the vital organs Of the frame work ol
Southern society. For 80 years seditious fac.
ton in the New England States, under British
influence, has been whiting with all its indus.
try and ingenuity to metamorphise the Federal
Government into an engine Of destruction, to
convert the Southern States into another jana
lea or Hayti. The Southern people loved the
Union too well, or they would not, for thirty
years, have continued in it, hoping from year to
year. at every election, that the honest, consci-
entious and conservative people Of the North
would rise in their majesty and crush out the
British faction, so busily engaged in transform
ing the Federal Union, the pallad ium OF Amer
ican liberty, peace, power and prosperity. into
demon of discord and destruction. But instead
ofcrushing that diabolical faction, they have let
it grow until it has overshadowed the whole
North, and has at length. bya tremendous ma


ority at the ballot box, voted to place the sharp
stick in the hands Of Abraham Lincoln, pledged
to use it to the full extent ofhs power to strike
at the vitals of fifteen States in the American
Confederacy. These States, one by one are fly
ing out of the Union to avoid death from the man
Lincoln, armed with the shrrp stick In vain
have they been told to stay in awhile, to see
whether he will strike them or not; in vain they
have been told that his hands are tied by Con-
gress and the Supreme Court, preventing him
from giving any dea}h blows during the first
year or two, at least, OF his administration But
the party which elevated him to power is strong
enough TO convert the Senate and House OF Rep
resentatives, together with the Federal Courts,
into conductors OF the Executive; enabling that
high officer to fulfil bis sworn pledges to the
party, which invested him with ower,purposely
to use that power to its utmost extent to blight,
cramp and cripple political institution OF the
southern States, on which the peace, prosperity
and happiness ofsouthern society is founded,--
Mr.. Lincoln and his party are pledged to DO
their utmost to make all the States free States
Their doctrines could do no harm if all the
States had homogeneous population, il all con.
tanned no other class Of people than those who
loved and appreciated free institutions. They
ignore the fact that nearly moiety of the pop
ulation of the southern section of the Union is
composed OF race Of mankind, who neither love
nor appreciate freedom, will not enjoy these
blessings themselves nor permit others to do it.
The few of that race of people scattered through
the Border States are terror and pest to nor
thern society If they were as numerous in the
North as they are in The south, the North
would be uninhabted by the white man; prop
erty in Boston would be worth no more than
property in Virginia, or Jamaica. AS st is, the





people more trouble, seated on a common plat.
form Of liberty and equality where The God Of
nrture did not intend them to sit, than the
whites of Louisiana experience from a negro
population, more numerous than themselves,
placed on platform no higher than that which
is in conformity with their wants, capacities,
happiness and improvement In Louisiana We
have no fear Of negroes, because negroes are in
their normal relation to society here, but even
in Iowa you are AFRAID of the fen you haze got,
because you have placed them in an abnormal
relation TO your society The records of north.
ern criminal jurisprudence prove that the few
negroes in the North spend their time mostly in
waging an "iyrepressiJle conaict against the per-
sons and property Of the northern people. My
dear strive OF the South love the Union so well,
that don't think we would dissolve it, If the
northern majority had abused its power no fur
ther than that Of electng President and Vice.
President, pledged TO use the sword and purse
of the federal government, to put every beggar
in the southern States on horse back, with per-
mission to ride the horse to death and to ride
over every one who came in his way.


We have 50 few beggars, we would suffer all
the ills, which beggars on horse back could
cause rather than part with the Union that our
foretathers taught US TO revere as the Palladium
Of our liberty. But il we had as many beggars
as negroes, we would go out Of the Union rather
than stay in it, to be trampled into the dust and
to have all our horses rode to death, none being
left to plow the ground. Worse than all that
would be our lot il we remained in the Union
with FIVE millions OF sensual black sayages let
loose among US. Purposeyto to effect that object
under the name of freedom and philantbropy,"a
rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
q powerful British party in the North has con-
yerted our beloved Union into an instrument OF
aggression against US and placing the sharp stick
in the hands of your strongest railspltters, 10
thrust into the vitals oil the South. You, my
dear sir, say you feel sad at seeing State after
Slate going out; so do /; but would feel sadder
ir compelled TO remain in. | have not much
hope that the northern and southern States will
live in peace after the separation; because nei-
ther YOU nor they have got your eyes open to
the true and sole cause ofthe separation. You
attribute it to want OF love in the southern
psople for the Union of our fathers. Union for
projection against war within, and aggression
from without and overlook the fact that we are
yoing out, because it has been trans formed into
IN engine to destroy the wealth and peace o fif.
teen States Mistaking the cause OF the separa.
lion, another mistake will no doubt be made
Force will he used against the see eding States
instead of letting them depart in peace. But
without waiting Tor the blood and ashes OF civil
war. YOU will, l hope, my der friend, see anoth
,r Union rising to restore peace and the govern.
ment our fathers founded; and State after State |
dining the new confederacy, or rather the old
,onfederacy, seeking its old objects instead of
he treaeonable object Of the British seditonsts.
Into that Union OF the South, will be happy
% see California, Oregon, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,