Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 9th, 1848.
Dear Crittenden,
The telegraff being out of order, you may get our glorious
news by this before you receive it otherwise.
I am on my way to my plantation, having passed thro' the
lower portion of the State last night.
The thing is settled, Io triumphe, Georgia will give
Old Zach 2,000 majority. I have worked hard and feel amply rewarded—now “whatever
sky is above me, I have a heart for every fate.”
I leave in five minutes for the West.
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.
135-6
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