The Convention has appointed five members of Congress to go
to Montgomery: Messrs. Hunter, Rives, Brockenborough, Staples, and I have not
yet seen Mr. Hunter; he has made no speeches, but no doubt he has done all in
his power to secure the passage of the ordinance, in his quiet but effective
way. To-day President Tyler remarked that the politicians in the Convention had
appointed a majority of the members from the old opposition party. The
President would certainly have been appointed, if it had not been understood he
did not desire it. Debilitated from a protracted participation in the exciting
scenes of the Convention, he could not bear the fatigue of so long a journey at
this season of the year.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 32-3
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