Whig Of Seventy-Six And Beaver Dam Democrat (Newspaper) - July 19, 1862, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin THE THE UNI- TED STAGES r and The period of new? election of to administer the executive government of the United not far distant and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in the person who with that important trust it proper as it may a tinct public voice that I should now apprise you of the resolution formed to decline being considered among the number of whom a choice is to be made I beg you at the same time to do me fhe justice to be assured that this tion has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations ing to the relation which a dutiful citizen to his country and that in drawing the tender of service which lence in my situation I am influenced by no zeal for future interests deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness but am ported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both The acceptance of and continuance hitherto in the office to which your rages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the without consistency w give ii Breaking the oi tunes t Though 1 error 1 Vol X Beaver Dam My 19 So 40 of my sentiments on a former and not dissimilar occasion Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every your hearts no of mine is necessary or confirm the attachment The unity of government which tutes you one is also now dear to you It is justly so for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real the your tranquility at home your peace abroad of your safety of your prosperity of that very liberty you so highly prize But as it is easy to foresee that from different causes and from ent much pains will be taken many artifices employed to weaken in your the conviction of this truth as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most confidently and though often covertly and is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the im- mense value of your national union to ion of duty and to a deference to what your aud individual happi- to be your desire I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power consistently with motives was not at liberty to disregard to return ro that retirement from which I have been reluctantly drawn The strength of my inclination to do this previous to the last election had even led to the tion of an address to declare it to you but mature reflection on the then perplexed and critical posture of our affairs with for- eign nations and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my confidence impelled me to abandon the idea I rejoice that the state of concerns ex- ternal as well as internal no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety and am persuaded whatever partiality may be retained for my services that in the ent circumstances of our country you will not disapprove my determination to retire The impressions with which I uri the were explained on the proper occasion Iu the discharge of this trust I will only say I have with good contributed the organization and of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable Not in the outset of the inferiority iu the negotiation by the Executive and in the ratification by the Senate of the treaty with Spain and in the universal tion at that event throughout the United States a decisive proof how unfounded were the cions pi them of a in the general government and in the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in to the they been witnesses to the formation of two with Great Brit- ain and with which secures to them everything they could desire in respect to our foreign relations towards confirming their Will it not be their to relv for the preservation of these advantages on the Un ion by which they were Will they not henceforth be deat to those ii such there are who would sever them from their brethren and connect them with To the efficacy and permanency of your Un- ion a government for the whole is ble No alliance however between the parts can be an adequate substitute they must inevitably experience the infractions and inter- which all alliances in all time have ex Sensible of momentous truth you have improved upon your first the adoption of a of better calculated than your former lor an intimate Uu ion arid for the management of your com n on concerns This government the ness that you should cherish a spring of our own choice uninfluenced and un- cordial habitual and immovable attachment to it accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity watching for its preservation with whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to ate any portion of out country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest Citizens by birth or choice of a common country has a right to con- your affections The name of American which belongs to you in your national capacity always ex ill the j st pride of patriotism more tlun any appellation derived from local dis- eliminations With slight shades of difference you have the same religion manners habits and political principles You have in a common and triumphed together the and liberty you possess ate the woik of joint counsels and j nut efforts of common d ings and successes But those considerations however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility are outweighed by th se which apply more to vour interest portion of our country the in com n had a useful this head they have seen There is that the of the government and to keep alive the spirit of liberty limits is probably ical cast patriotism may look with t indulgence if not with favor upon the spirit of party But in those of character in governments purely it is a spirit not to be encouraged Fiom their natural is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose And there constant ger of excess the ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and ige it A fire not to be quenched it demands a uniform vig knee to prevent its bursting into a flame lest instead of warming it should consume It is important the habits of thinking in a free should inspire caution in those intrusted with to con- fine themselves respective con avoiding in the exercise of the of one to encroach another Th encroachment to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create whatever the form of government a real despotism A juat estimate of that love of power and proneness to it which iu the human heart is suffi cient to satisfy us of the truth oi this position The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the ot the public weal the others has been evinced by ancient and modern some ot them in our country and under our own eyes To preserve be as necessary as to lute them If in the opinion of the people the or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates But let there be no change by usurpation for though this in one instance may be the instrument uf good it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed The precedent must always in permanent evil any parti il or benefit which the use can at any yield Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity religion and morality are indispensable la would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great happiness these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens nure equally with the pious m til ought to inspect and to cherish thum A volume could not tiace all their connections with private and public felicity Let it simpl be asked where io the for property reputation lor life if the of religious tion desert the oaths which aie the instruments of in of justice And le us with caution indulge the supposition tha morality can be maintained religion Whatever mar be conceded to the influence awed adopted upon lull investigation and ma lure deliberation completely fieo in its ples in the distribution of its uniting security with and containing within itself a provision for us own amendment has a to your confidence and your support its compliance with its laws acquiescence in its measures are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of g but the Con- which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all The very of the power and the right of the ple to establish g presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the All obstructions to the execution of the laws all combinations and associations under what ever plausible character the real design to direct control or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted to this fundamental pie and ot fatal tendency They serve to org faction to give it an artificial and ex- force to put in the place of the will of the nation the will of a parly otten a but artful and enterprising of he community according to the of my qu experience in my own still more in the eyes of tires for v guarding and preserving the triumphs of parties to make the union of thti whole The >Torth in an unrestrained intercourse with the South protected by the equal laws of a com- mon government hi the productions of the 1 itter groat additional resom ccs of maritime and strengthened the motives to dence in myself and every day the ing weight of yeard me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be Satisfied that if any circumstances have given peculiar value to my they were temporary I have the to believe that while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scone does not forbid it In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgement of gratitude which I owe to my beloved try for the many honors it has conferred upon me still more for the steadfast dence with which it has supported me and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment by services persevering though in usefulness unequal to my zeal If have resulted to our country from services let it always be remembered to your praise and an instructive example in our annals that under circumstances in which the passions agitated in every direction were liable to mislead amidst appearances some times dubious vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging in situations in which not of success has countenanced the spirit of the constancy of your support was the prop of the efforts and a guarantee of the plans by which they were effected Profoundly penetrated with this idea I shall carry it with me to my grave as a strong to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence that your union snd brotherly affection may be perpetual that the free Constitution the work of your may be maintained that ite administration iu ry department may be stamped with dom and virtue that in fine the happiness pf the people of these States under the enterprise and of The South in the same j intercourse benefiting by the of the agriculture grow and its commerce i expand Tin nine partly into its own the nf the North it its particular invigorated and while it contributes in different ways to nourish and increase the mass of national navigation it looks for- ward to the protection of a m strength to which is unequally adapted The B in i like with the West already finds the progressive improvement of by land and water will more more h id a vent fur the com which it from abroad or tures at home The West East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort and what is perhaps of still greater consequence it of necessity owe the secure of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight influence and the future maritime strength of the side of the Union by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation Any other tenure by which the West hold this advantage whether from its own separate strength or from an apostate aud unnatural connection with any 1 power must be intrinsic illy Whili then every part of our country thus f eli an immediate and particular in union all the combined cannot fail iu the united mass of means and greater greater resource greater j security fiom external d a less interruption of their peace by foreign nations what is value derive from union an exemption fiora those broils and between themselves which so frequently J neighboring countries not tied together by the sime government which their own alone be sufficient to but opposite foreign alliances attachments and would stimulate and likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which under any of government are inauspicious to liberty and which are to be regarded as hostile to republican liberty in this it is your union ought to be ered as a main prop of jour liberty and that the love of one ought to endear to you the tion of the other These considerations speak a persuasive guage to every reflecting and virtuous mind aid exhibit tbe of the as a primary object of patriotic desire Is there a doubt whether a common government can em- brace so laige a sphere Let experience solve it To listen to mere speculation in such a criminal We are authorized to proper organization of the whole case were auspices of liberty may be complete by so organization ot tne careful a pint a use the auxiliary agency ot governments for of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause the affection and the adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it Here perhaps I ought to stop but a solicitude for your welfare which cannot end but with my life and the apprehension of danger natural ft that solicitude urge me on an occasion like the present to er to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review some which are the result of much reflection of no inconsiderable observation and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a ple These will be offered to you with more freedom as you can only sea in them the disinterested warnings of a part ing friend who can possibly have no per motive to bias his counsel nor can 1 the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the experiment It is well worth a fair and full experiment With such powerful and obvious Motives to Union affecting all parts of our country while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability there will ways be reason to distrust the patriotism of hose who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands In contemplating the causes which may dis- turb our Union it occurs as a matter of serious concern that any ground should have been for characterizing parties by cal and Atlantic and whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and One of the expedients of party to acquire ence within particular districts is to sent the opinions and aims of other You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and spring from these misrepresentations they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection The forget as an encouragement to inhabitants of our western country have lately public administration tha mirror of the ill con and incongruous of faction rather thin the of consistent and plans digested by common counsels and by mutual However combinations or of the description may now and then answer popular ends they e likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines bj which cunning and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government the engines which had lifted them to unjust ion Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present state it is requisite not only that you steadily tenance n regular oppositions to its acknowledged authority but also that you resist with care the spirit upon its principles specious the pretexts One method of may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown In all the changes to you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions that experience is the surest Stan dard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country that i in the mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion and remember especially that for the efficient agement of your interests hi a country I so as ours a government of as much i vigor as is consistent wita the perfect security ot liberty is indispensable Liberty itself will flad in such a government with powers properly 1 distributed and adjusted its surest guardian It is indeed Kttle else than a name where the 1 government i- too feeble to withstand the en- of faction to confine each member ol the society the prescribed by thi laivs and to maintain all in the secure and quil enjoyment ofthe rights of person and erty 1 have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the Sute with reference to the founding of them on geographical tions Let me now take a more comprehensive view and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally This spirit unfortunately is inseparable from our nature having its root in the strongest ions of the human mind It exists under ent shapes in ail governments more or less stifled controlled or repressed but in those ol the form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their woret enemy The alternate domination of one faction over another sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities is itself a frightful despotism But this leads at length to a more and permanent despotism The disorders and ies which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security aud repose in the absolute power of an individual aud sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction more uble or tuan bis competitors turns disposition to the purposes of hii own slerA tion on the ruins of public liberty Wit out looking forward to an extremity ot this kind which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of the common antl continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty ofa wise people to discourage and restrain it It tends always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration It agitates he community ies and false alarms kindles the animosity of one part against soother foments occasionally riot and insurrection It opens the door to for- eign influence and which find concessions to tire nation of which apt doubly to nation making the concessions by un- parting with ought to have been by exciting jealousy III will and a disposition to retaliate in the from qual privileges are withheld Rnd it gives corrupted or deluded citizens who devote to the favorite nation facility to belray the interest country wi h- mt odium sometimes even with gilding appearance ofa virtuous sense ot lon a deference or public opinion or a laudable zeal for public good tho base or sh of or As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways such attachments ai e particularly o the truly enlightened and independent low many opportunities do they to tamper with domestic to practice the art of eduction to mislead public to influence ir awe the public councils Such an nent of a sin ill or weak toward a great and nation dooms the former to be the of the latter Against the wiles of Foreign influence I conjure you to believe me jealousy of a free ought to lij awake history and experience prove foreign influence is one of the most baneful of republic in government But that to be useful must be impartial else it the instrument of the very influence be avoided instead ofa against it Excessive parti for one foreign nation and excessive dislike for another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side and serve to vail and even second arts of influence on the other Real may resist the intrigues of the f are liable ti become suspected and odious while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our com- relations to have with them as little political connection as possible So far as we have formed engagements fet them be fulfilled with perfect good faith Here let us stop Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation Hence she muse be engaged in frequent con- the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns Hence therefore it not to it probabieithit I may have committed many e avert or which they lend alto l alto me hem that after years of my an tbe will be consigned to be to tbe Relying us in and actuated by that fervent love fo natural to a man who ia native noil of himself end for several genera lions I anticipate with pleMing expectation that retreat in which I promise to realize with out the aweet enjoyment of partaking in the of my of pod laws under a free ever object of my the ard as t trust of our mutual cares labors and gers 3 WASHINGTON United States Sept 17th 1796 The Chicago Tribune ia severe on those who by abusing Secretary sumes are abusing the Did it never occur to the that those who keep up a abuse of McGlellan are abusing the administration just as much as those who vilify Stanton there has been scarcely an issue ofthe Tribune which has not had an cle declaring that all wrangling must cease while as regularly as appears it has from two to ten articles abusing some prominent individual usually McClellan and wrangling about everything and body For some days past it laboring strenuously to Federal armies have met with a disastrous reverse before Richmond the suiu and substance of the whole effort being to point a moral For instance as an evidence of its spirit and the style of its articles we from yesterday's tion one of its several items aa The man with the coat legitimate successor now attached to the ial corps of the New York Herald It was he who saw the dead rebels on the field at Richmond he it was who ed the wonderful strategy which led our army into the swamps and lastly he is the man who discovered a must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties m the ordinary vicissitudes of politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities Out detached and distant situ ition and en- ables us to pursue a different coarse If we remain one people end an efficient government the nod is nil far off w hen we may defy ry trom annoyance when we may an attitude as cause the we may at auj time upon to be scrupulosity eri belligerent under the rious victory in a retreat of seventeen miles and the loss of all our positions and ten thousand men If there is any difference in the labors of the Chicago Tribune Times and the Milwaukee News we fail to see it They all se k in every issue to belittle the forts of the Government and its ments and to insinuate doubts and and discouragements The Tri- refined education of peculiar reason ana experience both fui bid us to expect that national morality ca i prevail iu of religious principles It io substantially virtue or is a necessary of popular government The rule indeed extends more or force to every species ot free Who is a sincere to it ca i look with indifference upon attempts to shake the tion of the fabric Promote thun as an of primary for tlie general diffusion of knowledge In proportion as iho structure of a gives toice to opinion it is essential that public should be tened As a very important source of strength and security public credit One method of preserving it is to it as as possible avoiding of expense by cultivating peace but that timely dis to for danger prevent much greater to repel it avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions ut expense but b vigorous iu tune of peace to the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the which we ought to boar The execution of these to representatives but it is that opinion should ate To facilitate to them the of their duty it is essential that jou should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue that to have revenue there must be taxes that no taxes can be which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant that the embarrassment inseparable ivom the selection of the p oper ob- c boose peace or war as our guided by tice hall whoever he is is not at the head of the army and its favorite policy is not carried Why forego BO peculiar a out and the other papers do it because Why qm our own le stand upon foreign j i iU I by wnh desire the mat o any part nt Europe our peace and i Government should be conquered and the o n Southern democracy again restored to u Of permanent disputed sway The motives are wuh any foreign so what but the labors and results wr I we are now at liberty to do it are same The public before not be understood as e of zina i -n 1 11 iu I hold great while will put them all in the same no less applicable to public than to private category if they have not already done it that is always the best policy I it therefore let those be ob- in their genuine Hut iu my it ic unnecessary and would be Taking care always to suitable establishments in a respectable defensive posture we may safely trust io alliances for ex- emergencies Harmony and a intercourse with all tions are by policy and interest But even our commercial policy Sentinel President Lincoln's Vlatt io The correspondent at For- tress Monroe But the crowning event is the visit of President Lincoln to the Army of the He goes to see for himself no idle tomac equal and impartial hand neither reeking junketing trip but of Serious service as gone to Wli a visited the era so disposed in older to trade a u- hit course to define rights to examined lOT ana Drought HIS enable the io support them great to bear on the momentous mles of the Ust that present the day It will electrify the and mutual opinions will but 1 J liable 10 Tie irom time to lime country for it is no disparagement to any abandoned or as experience and one to say that there is no man on the boards now who commands a larger s facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions Thus the policy and the will of country are subjected to the policy and of another jocts which is always a choice of ought to be a decisive motive for a candid con- struction of the of the Government in making it and a spirit of acquiescence in for obt lining revenue the public exigencies may at any time dictate good faith and towards all tions peace anil all Hon and enjoin conduct and can it be policy dous not equally cnj jm ill it will be worthy of d and a I ho distant period a great nation give to the mag wo novel example ofa people always aided by an ex and benevolence Who can in the course of time and fruits of such a plan would richly repay any rary advantages which might be lusi by a steady adherence to Can it be that Providence has not connected the of a nation with The experiment at leist is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature Alas is it impossible by its 1 In execution oi a plan is more essential than permanent inveterate antipathies nations and passionate for others should be excluded and that in place of them jast and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated The nation which indulges towards an habitual haired ot an fondness IP in some a It is a slave to its animosity its tuner oi sufficient load it astray liom Us duty and its est Antipathy io ooa against another dis poses each readily to offer and io lay hold of slight of umbrage and to be aud when accidental or tri- ft ng occasions ol occur frequent envenomed and bloody con- tests The prompted by ment to war die contrary to the best calculations of he sometimes participates in the national prop sou would u makes of the nation subservient to projects of instigated by pride ambition other ter and pernicious mo ives The peace the liberty of has been the victim So likewise a passionate attachment of one tion to another evils thy for the nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cast's where no real common interest exists and infusing the enmities of other betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars ot the latter without adequate inducement or U r 1 i j i i I VY ir w another jit must pay with a portion of of public President dependence foi whatever it may that I have not heard OHG but a dozen by such acceptance place if the of having given equivalents reflecting men say that il he would tiT nominal jet of beins claim to the Country that he proposes tO wuh for not giving more There can he i himself at the head of the next no error than to expect or calculate upon I 1 illusion i raised he would have the men sooner than by any other means Let Abraham coln once take the field surrounded by the talent that he would select and he would have all the men he needed As to matters near Richmond there ara grounds for differing inferences for ing certain is known There are those who believe that the day of delays sharp quick and heavy will hereafter mark the policy not only of the Government but of the Generals in tha field There are those who expect a of this policy in a few days I do not as yet see the evidence or There are certain movements of which the country is not yet advised that augur most auspiciously I refer not to the already noticed from Col Forney to Philadelphia Press When the President started a few daya ago for the head of the army of the mac it would have been to announce his mission or the object he bad in view but now that he is known to have proceeded on this errand may serve a good purpose to state that his chief object is to ascertain whether the charges so made against Gen are false or true Pins were worth a dollar a paper in 1812 and poor at that Then it took teen processes to make a pin now only one by a machine which finishes and sticks them into paper Saving pins a half century ago was as important an ing cents and hence the habit thua ed sticks to many elderly gentlemen coat sleeves are ornamented with rows of them rescued from loss Mom nation to nation must cure a just pr de ought to In offering to you my countrymen sels ot an old and I dare not hope will make impression 1 could wish that will control ibe of prevent our nation Irum the couise which has hitherto marked the tiny of nations but if 1 may even fl tier myself that may be productive ot some partial benefit some occasional yood that may now and then to moderate the of spirit to warn against the mischiefs of to guard against of pretended patriotism this hope will be a full recompense fur for your welfare by which they been How far in the discharge of my official J have been guided by the principles which hire been delinea ed the public and dences of my conduct mast witness to you and the To tbe assurance of my own con- science is that 1 have at least myself to be by In relation lo the still subsisting war in Europe my proclamation ot April 1793 is tbe index to my plan by jour approving of your representatives in both houses of the oi that measure has governed me uninfluenced bj any attempts lo deter or divert rne from it Alior deliberate examination the best I could obtain 1 was well bit our country under all the circumstances the a right tu take and was bound in and take Having taken it 1 determined as far as should depend upon me to maintain it wuh and firmness The ons which respect the right lo bold it is not necessary on this occasion to 1 Will observe lo my understanding ofthe matter that far from being denied by any of belligerent bus been virtually admitted by all The duty of holding a neutral conduct maybe in- ferred without anything more Iroin tbe obligation which justice and humanity impose qu every canes in which it 13 free tu to inviolate of and amity towards other t t The inducements of interest for observing be referred to your own reflections and experience With me a predominant has beun to endeavor to gain time to car to
