Covington, Ga., Feb. 15th, 1848.
Dear Sir: As I
have no personal acquaintance with our immediate representative, Hon. Mr.
Haralson, I hope you will excuse the liberty I have taken in addressing you
this letter. I wish you to have sent to me some paper devoted exclusively to
the reporting of the proceedings of Congress. I do not know whether the amount
enclosed is sufficient or not. If it be too small, please have the paper sent
on at once anyhow, and I will immediately make up the deficit — if too large I
would be glad if you would purchase for me last year's Congressional Globe and
Appendix. I would be gratified also to have the speeches of McLane of
Maryland, Foote, Rhett and Bedinger, that is if they can be conveniently
obtained. The truth is that the reports of the speeches in the Union are so
provokingly meagre and defective that I never look at them. Your speech for
instance (which I think sincerely is the best on your side of the
session), as found in the Intelligencer, is most unmercifully mutilated in the
Union. I should not trouble [you] with this very small matter had I any other
means of ascertaining the name of the paper I wish — one that gives us your
speeches accurately and in extenso.
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* Justice Lamar was at this time a young lawyer at
Covington, Ga. His career In public life was as Congressman and Senator from
Mississippi, colonel In the Confederate army. Secretary of the. Interior under
President Cleveland, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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.
96-7
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