They are historical
facts, which belong to the present, as well as future times. I
doubt whether a single fact, known to the world, will carry as clear
conviction to it, of the correctness of our knowledge of the treasonable
views of the federal party of that day, as that disclosed by this, the
most nefarious and daring attempt to dissever the Union, of which the
Hartford Convention was a subsequent chapter: and both of these having
failed, consolidation becomes the first chapter of the next book of
their history. But this opens with a vast accession of strength from
their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or
principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an
aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations
under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures,
commerce, and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman
and beggared yeomanry. This will be to them a next best blessing to the
monarchy of their first aim, and perhaps the surest stepping-stone to
it.
I learn with great satisfaction that your school is thriving well, and
that you have at its head a truly classical scholar. He is one of three
or four whom I can hear of in the State. We were obliged the last
year to receive shameful Latinists into the classical school of the
University; such as we will certainly refuse as soon as we can get from
better schools a sufficiency of those properly instructed to form a
class.
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