Washington 14th Feb.
1849
MY DEAR SIR, I have
no copy with me of your letter, refered to in the enclosed, and know not where
one can be got except from yourself. If you have a spare copy, I would be
obliged to you for enclosing it to me, and to return the letter of Mr Jackson
with it.
I enclosed you a
copy of our Address, which I hope you have received, and that it meets your
approbation. I trust it will do something to Unite the South, and to prepare
our people to meet and repel effectually and forever the aggressions of the
North. Already the stand taken here and in Virginia, N. C. our State and
Florida has made a deep impression on the North. Missouri is about to take a
firm and decided stand and Kentucky will, I learn, put down effectually the
attempt in favor of emancipation proposed to be made in the Convention to be
held this year in that State. It is said, there will not be three members of
the body in favour of it. But this and all other favourable symptoms, so far
from relaxing, ought to add new energy to our efforts. Now is the time to
vindicate our rights. We ought rather than to yield an inch, take any
alternative, even if it should be disunion, and I trust that such will be the
determination of the South.
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* Original lent by
Mr. E. S. Hammond.
SOURCE: J. Franklin
Jameson, Editor, Annual Report of the American Historical Association
for the Year 1899, Volume II, Calhoun’s Correspondence: Fourth Annual Report of
the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Correspondence of John C. Calhoun,
p. 762-3
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