NEW ORLEANS, March 3, 1849.
MY DEAR SON,—I was
glad to hear by your letter of the 18th ultimo that you had returned from
Missouri. Your journey must have been a dreadful one, but you will find some
compensation for it in the profits which you expect to realize.
My health is better,
and I can again walk. I hope to reach home toward the last of this month. The
weather is now fine here, and I am desirous not to return until the winter
breaks.
I have heard that
Colonel Allen has discontinued his school, but I have not heard whether Henry
is admitted at West Point. I declined going to Washington at the Call Session.
As you were absent,
I sent to Richard Pendell a letter on the Emancipation question. As I regret to
hear that it is not popular, I suppose that my letter will bring on me some
odium. I nevertheless wish it published. I owe that to the cause, and to
myself, and to posterity.
I am delighted to
hear that dear little Lucy is better. You are perfectly right to take her to
the sea-bath, if it be recommended; but ought you not to think of the Arkansas
Springs? My love to Susan and your children.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 585
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