Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Henry Carter* to James S. Pike, April 17, 1850

Portland, April 17, 1850.

Friend Pike: I have been rather old Hunkerish in my feelings in times past, but I am not at all proud of the present position of Clay and Webster!

If the Senate tack that long tail to California, I hope the House will cut it off or defeat the whole  — if they have to call the yeas and nays for it. I should go in for a row before I would submit to it.

Very truly, your friend,
H. Carter.
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* Editor of the Portland Advertiser.

SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850 to 1860, p. 27

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