Dahlonega, Ga., July 8,1846.
My Dear Sir: Since I wrote
you last I have not heard a syllable further relative to Wofford's pretensions
. . . Since we published the call for our meeting on the 4th, I have conversed
freely with the rank and file of the Democracy on the subject, and find that
they are entirely undivided in your favor, showing that there has been no
tampering with them as yet. They have heard of no other claims, and of course I
did not mention them. It were a pity to destroy such a blessed unanimity. On
the 4th we clinched the thing in Lumpkin.1 A great many people were
here to attend a muster and there was no dissenting voice. You will glide in
again without, I think, the slightest opposition. The Whigs are doing nothing
that I hear of.
If those disaffected
Buckeyes and Hooziers sacrifice McKay's Bill on the altar of Oregon, it will be
ruinous to us at the next general election — say the governor's. We cannot
elect a governor unless you reduce the tariff. We shall moreover lose all the
closely contested congressional districts — Jones's, Towns's, etc. Stephens and
Toombs will be immovable in their places.
I am now keeping
house at the mint, and when you visit Lumpkin this fall we will be glad to see
you and your family with us. You might make this a depot of your family from
which you could branch off to Union, Habersham, etc.
_______________
* Superintendent of
the United States branch mint at Dahlonega, Ga.
1 Lumpkin County, whose county seat was
Dahlonega.
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. 85-6
No comments:
Post a Comment