BALTIMORE, [MD.],
June 7th, 1852.
MY DEAR SIR: I am
very sorry I had it not in my power to have seen you before I returned home,
but it was impossible for me to leave this place sooner, and now my engagements
compel me to go home immediately.
Last evening I had
an interview with Wise and said among other things "Wise have you been
speaking unkindly of Hunter? What is the matter? No. did you say you would not
vote for Hunter for President? Geo. Booker I would crawl on my hands and knees
to make Hunter President." I shall say no more for the present. You know
the man and his manner.
I have thought it
proper to say this much because circumstances and the zeal of some of your
friends might have given to this matter a very different coloring. You and Wise
shall not quarrel if my feeble voice can prevent it. Listen to no idle rumor.
Wise is your friend. I know the fact.
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. 144-5
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