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.
_______________
* 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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