ASHLAND, April 28, 1851.
MY DEAR SIR,—I received your favor transmitting two letters, one
addressed to yourself and the other in reply to it, and I thank you for the
opportunity afforded me of perusing them.
If the course of ——— affords cause of regret, I am grateful for the
firmness and fidelity with which you remained attached to me in 1848, as upon
all former occasions.
The nomination made of General Taylor, in Philadelphia, has now no other
than an historical interest. It has long ceased to affect me. I fear, indeed,
that it has had a pernicious influence upon the Whig cause, but of that we
shall hereafter be able better to judge. I concur entirely in the views
presented in your reply to ———. Had I been nominated I am perfectly confident
that I should have obtained every electoral vote which he received, and,
besides them, the vote of Ohio certainly, and that of Indiana probably. My
majority in Pennsylvania would have been greater than that which was given to
him. But the thing is passed, and no one has more quietly submitted to the
event than I have.
I was very sorry that circumstances were such as not to admit of my
calling to see you on my return home; but I hope we may yet live to meet each
other. I returned by the route of Cuba and New Orleans, and was highly
gratified with my visit to that delightful island.
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