WASHINGTON, [D. C.],
October 22, 1850.
DEAR SIR: Yours is
received and I herewith send the letter of Mr. Tazewell. You will see how it
was mutilated while in the hands of the printer and against my orders, but I
have saved every article of the precious paper.
As to Georgia the
indications are unfavourable. The tone of the resistance press is not so good
as it has been. Elsewhere there is no change, unless in Charlestown, V[irgini]a
and in Rockingham [County, Virginia] where by the way you were expected. I got
a letter from Bedinger last night who says that Mason made a capital speech at
Charlestown, and that it was well received, and that all the Democrats are with
us, and the Whigs opposed. The proceedings however have not yet reached here.
By the way that
truest test of the state of affairs, the subscriptions to the Press are not
coming in so rapidly as immediately after the session closed. The members have
either done nothing—or done it in vain. My opinion is they have done about
nothing, that is so very customary with them.
You see Filmore has
surrendered to Seward, submission is the order of the day.
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. 119-20
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