Boston, November 14,
1850.
GENTLEMEN,—I am
under great obligations for the letter received from you, expressing your
approbation of the sentiments contained in my letter to the Union meeting at
Castle Garden.
The longer I live,
the more warmly am I attached to the happy form of government under which we
live. It is certain that, at the present time, there is a spirit abroad which
seeks industriously to undermine that government. This, of course, will be
denied, and denied by those whose constant effort is to inspire the North with
haterd towards the South, and the South with hatred toward the North; and it is
time for all true patriots to make a united effort, in which I shall most
cordially join, not only to resist open schemes of disunion, but to eradicate
its spirit from the public mind.
I have the honor to
be, gentlemen, with great regard, your obliged fellow-citizen and humble
servant,
DAN'L WEBSTER.
TO MESSRS. F. S.
LATHROP, CHAS. G. CARLETON, PETER S. DUNEE, GENARD HALLOCK, Committee, New
York.
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol.
2, p. 404
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