DEAR SIR,—If you do
not pity a poor fellow who is condemned to stay here and vote day after day,
doing no good, and perhaps some harm, then you are more hard-hearted than a
slaveholder. . . . I hear the Free-soil men are very ferocious against me
because I voted for Mr. Winthrop. Some discussion was had about getting up an
indignation meeting to give me a special denunciation. But probably they will
think they can do the same thing without exposing themselves to an answer. . .
.
I am told that Mr ———
and others have got this notion in their heads, and speak of it freely,— that I
am to be put forward next year as a candidate for Governor, in order to break
down their party. They want, therefore, to break me down first. It is not what
is past, but what they profess to apprehend for the future, that directs their
course. They mean to put me in the wrong, at all events. Hence that article in
the "Republican," a week or ten days ago, written, as I am told, by ———.
I should like a good opportunity to set this matter right. . . .
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p.
285-6
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