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oluton, and to cstablisha democratic government,
should consider well before you give your lnHu.
ence longer 10 party that is federal to the back
bone. But all these reasons, so far as immediate
danger is concerned, sink into comparative IN
significance by the side of the accursed scheme
of" Annexation" 1t is on this account mainly,
that | would urge and beseech you to come out
from the party. Go and hear Fowler on that
subject. His arguments arc perfectly overwhclm-


ing. He is u giant, and has converted hundreds


in this region by his tremendous appeals on that
subject alone. To crafty me, do not fail TO hear
him, and if not convinced, seek personal inter
view with him. And that you may be guided,
in this awful crisis TO correct result, is the fer
vent prayer of your aged father, }. h.


II We believe the above letter does unde-
signed injustice to the spirit and intentions Of
the great mass OF the Federal party, which was
in the main as enlightened and patriotic as any
party, though mistaken on some points. But 1t
is a historical fact that in old times Protection
was regarded and boosted as the Democratic pol
icv, while the Federal leaders were more friendly
to Free Trade; and We know Free Traders both
in this city and elsewhere, who avow that the
sentiments they hold now are precisely these
which they held as Federalists in the olden time.
So with regard to Executive power, the Federal
lists of John Adams's school demanded strength
to the Executive ARM while the Democrats ad-
vocated the limiting of Executive power; but
neither would have tolerated its extension 10 the
enormous length it has reached in our day, with
the sanction of those who claim to be the de-
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