Athens, Ga., May 12, 1846.
My Dear Brother,
. . . Toombs misrepresented me on the Oregon question. The Senate's Resolutions
as amended by Owen met my hearty approbation. I preferred that there should be
embodied in the resolutions a willingness to negotiate during the 12 mos.
Nobody talks of Oregon now. It is Mexico and War. I never
saw the people more excited. A volunteer company could be raised in every
county in Georgia. Our government has permitted itself to be insulted long
enough. The blood of her citizens has been spilt on her own soil. It appeals to
us for vengeance. Can we hesitate to deal out a just retribution? It is the
general opinion here that England is pulling the wires. The quicker we know it
the better. Let Congress act and that quickly. . . .
_______________
* Brother of Howell Cobb, a lawyer and author of a
digest of the laws of Georgia, 1851, and of a legal treatise on slavery, 1858.
He was not active In politics until the secession crisis In 1860-61. He became
a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and was killed in the battle of
Fredericksburg.
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.
76-7
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