New York, February 14, 1851.
DEAR SIR,—A number
of the citizens of New York, without distinction of party, beg leave, through
the undersigned, to ask your acceptance of a carriage, harness, and horses,
which have been selected for you as a small token of the high estimation in
which they hold your long course of public services in the councils of the
nation, as the expounder of the Constitution, and the defender of the Union.
It must be a source
of great gratification to you, to know that, in the crisis which has just
passed, your bold and manly course in espousing the great cause of the Union,
and its recent compromise, at the peril of loss of favor with a section of that
party with which you have ever acted, and whose principles you have ever
maintained, has met with the warm approval and cordial support of your
countrymen at large.
That your valuable
life may be long spared to your family and your country, is the ardent wish of
your friends, whom we represent, and of ourselves.
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol.
2, p. 419
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