Macon, Ga., July 16,1844
Dear Thomas, Your
favour of the 8th inst. came to hand a few days ago just as I was getting in
the cars on my departure from home, and I have not had time since then or
rather an opportunity of sufficient [word illegible] to send you an earlier
answer. I will if it is in my power be with you on the 27th inst. but I am not
certain that I can. The day before I shall be at Crawfordville where I hope
also to meet you, and on the 24th I shall be at Washington I expect. The travel
and fatigue I fear will be almost too much for me. I am here to-day, and to-morrow
shall if nothing prevents go over to Clinton where there is to be a meeting the
next day. Meriwether1 and E. A. Nisbet are to be there. Jenkins and
myself were at Eatonton last Saturday; and in all parts I have been in, as well
as those from which I have heard, the prospect is good. In some counties it is
reported that we will sustain loss etc., but upon a close examination I find
that in nearly all instances the rumor is false. The Locos seem determined to
do what they can by gasconnading, and the only effect of it is I think to
arouse the Whigs and make them energetic, and that is all we want. Chappell2
from what I learn here will be badly beaten in this district. I am informed by
the most intelligent and observing men in such matters that he will do us no
injury in this and Monroe county and no other county except Upson and
Meriwether, and very little in those. My news from Cherokee is good. Miller and
Lumpkin3 have had a meeting and discussion at Decatur, in which they
say Miller got decidedly the advantage. Lumpkin complained of ill health and
got out in that way. The Whigs are up and doing. I saw here last night men from
Cobb, Pike, Monroe, Twiggs and Pulaski and all are zealous. Colquitt and
Haralson4 and young Alford and Samford and Chappell were all here
last week and literally stormed the castle, but to no effect. And I assure you
the prospect as far as I have seen is quite as good for our carrying the State
as it was at the same time in 1840, if not better — and there is no comparison
hardly between the indications now and this time last year, for our people are
now fully up and aroused, and this is all we have ever wanted in order to
succeed at an election.
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1 James A. Meriwether, Eugeniua A. Nisbet, and
Charles J. Jenkins were Georgia Whig leaders.
2 In the congressional election of 1844, Absalom
H. Chappell was narrowly defeated in the third district by his Whig opponent,
Washington Poe.
3 John H. Lumpkin, Democrat, defeated H. V. M. Miller
in the fifth district by a heavy majority.
4 Hugh A. Haralson was elected in the fourth
district. Colquitt, Alford and Samford were Democratic speakers in the
campaign, but were not candidates.
SOURCE: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Editor, The Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911, Volume 2: The
Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, p.
59-60
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