Athens, [ga.,] Feb. 15th, 1846.
Dear Howell, I
have just returned from Clark court and in the morning I must start to Walton,
but I cannot longer defer writing to you. You must accept as my excuse for not
having written often that I have constantly visited Chase's1 office
and had the pleasure of seeing your letters to him, so that through that
channel I have been in constant communication with you and from Chase, Mitchell
and others you have I thought been so far in communication with me as to make
it not very important for me to address you directly.
It is true our editors do not speak with as much zeal on
Texas as I think they ought but I do believe that our people are looking with a
deep interest on the issue of the question in the Senate; what will be the fate
of the bill I do not know but I do believe that if annexation is defeated the
wrath of the people of Georgia will be visited on the Whigs after such a sort
that they will feel the effects of it during the lives of the present
generation. We take for granted since the report of the committee that our
Senator Mr. Berrien will oppose it. That his doing so will be against the
wishes of a very large majority it seems to me he must know. It is for him
however to reconcile it to his conscience to vote directly contrary to the
known will of his constituents. Do your best. Let not the measure be lost. . .
.
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* A Democratic leader resident at Athens, Ga., Cobb's home.
He was judge of the superior court of Georgia (western circuit), 1841-1845;
Congressman from Georgia, 1851-1855; Solicitor of the United States Treasury,
1857-1861.
1 Albon Chase, editor of the “Southern Banner,”
at Athens, Ga.
SOURCE: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Editor, The Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911, Volume 2: The
Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, p.
63
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