WASHINGTON, [D. C.],
October 29th, 1850.
DEAR HUNTER: Your
second favour was received enquiring after the first which had already been
answered, and I presume you receized the Tazewell letter, as safely as it came
from the hands of the Visigoth printer.
The news for the
last few days looks better from the South. The Georgia papers have better tone,
and our friends claim to be strong. I learn to-day that Toombs has written here
that Georgia can be saved for the Compromise if the North will only behave
itself, a thing that the North wont do more and more every day.
Wagner of the New
Orleans Courier has retired, and the paper goes more with the South. In a card
he publishes he ascribes his retirement to his devotion to the Union which was
too great for the proprietors of the paper. I suppose we have to thank Soule
and Barton.
Doherty (Judge) of
Georgia, Whig and the man on whom all the Whigs but seven united for Senator at
the last election instead of Dawson, has come out for resistance.
The Mississippi
papers look pretty well.
I have written over
to New York about your nephew, and if possible will get him a place. Soon as I
hear will write. (P. S.) Cabell is elected by decreased majority.
SOURCE: Charles
Henry Ambler, Editor, Annual Report of the American Historical
Association for the Year 1916, in Two Volumes, Vol. II, Correspondence of
Robert M. T. Hunter (1826-1876), p. 120
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