Athens [ga.], June 23rd, [1847]
Dear Bro., I
have today got the copy deed and send you a copy immediately. All are pretty
well. No news from Taylor. News by the Caledonia just got here. For myself I
want no mediation from England. She meddles too much in our affairs anyhow. I
am opposed to this Government dismembering Mexico. Let us whip her decently and
give her a good government, such as the people wish. If they afterwards
wish to be annexed we can do it. I am for extending the area of freedom,
but not by war. The odious doctrine upon which Britain acts of
taking territory for the expenses of the war is anti-Democratic. Let the
glory of our government be that not one citizen lives under its laws
that is not there by choice. . . .
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.
88
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