Cincinnati, January 26, 1849.
My Dear Hamlin;
I have just received yours of yesterday & have time but for a word in
reply. I am glad to have you say that you “do not beleive that Col. Morse can
be moved.” I have had no idea that he could be. For him to give way now, upon
any promises whatever by the
Whigs who have abused him so much and to whom he owes nothing, would be to sign
and seal his own destruction. His only course of safety and honor, is, as he
expressed it himself in his letter to me, to go straight on. I shall be more
disappointed in him, than I have ever been in any man if he do s not.
I shall look with great anxiety for the next intelligence
from Columbus. The Whigs have generally ceased, I think, out of Columbus, to
look for the exclusion of Pugh & Peirce. Almost all lawyers and others who
have examined the subject decline to defend the constitutionality of the
clauses dividing Hamilton County; and many of them give up the point frankly.
SOURCE: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
for the Year 1902, Vol. 2, p. 160
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