Near Gainesville [ga.], 20th June, 1848.
My Dear Sir:
If the Report of Fremont's last exploration has been printed and you have a
spare copy you will oblige me by sending it to me. I would not ask this of you
if I knew where to purchase a copy.
I fear that the Whigs have by the nomination of Taylor
imposed the duties of a laborious and arduous campaign upon the Democratic leaders
in this state. I was taken sick the day I reached Savannah from my plantation.
I have only recently recovered my strength since my arrival here. I can
therefore say but little of the manner in which Cass's nomination has been
received, but as far as I have heard there is every disposition among our
friends to yield him their support. It would not by any means be safe to count
on his getting the vote of this State, though I hope he may. Woodbury would
have been a stronger man with us here, but I suppose that Cass has been chosen
because he was deemed the strongest in the country.
I see Old Bullion1 is out in a new part, and
seems to be quite pleased to play the second fiddle. How are the mighty fallen.
No one has asked him to be and no paper has (I believe) spoken of him as a
candidate for the Presidency this time, and it is quite manifest I think that
he does not mean to be forgotten and consequently overlooked. He is in a worse
box than my friend (Calhoun) whom he denominated to Crittenden (so said Toombs
who was present) as the “Nigger King.”
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* A substantial planter whose summer home lay in Cobb's
congressional district.
1 Thomas H. Benton.
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.
109-10
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