WASHINGTON, July 13, 1851.
A Virginian told me
yesterday that he saw I kept preaching; and, upon my evincing some curiosity to
know what he meant, he said he heard a discourse from me the day before, —
Sunday; all which, being at last interpreted, meant that he had heard a street
temperance-lecturer read my Letter to the Worcester Temperance Convention, to a
large audience which he had collected. I see the letter itself is in Monday's
"Commonwealth."
I was glad to see in
some paper yesterday a letter from Gen. Scott to Gen. Jackson, declining a
challenge for a duel which the latter had sent him. It was well written, saying
at the end that he, Gen. Jackson, could probably gratify his feelings by
calling him, Scott, coward, &c., till after the next war;
meaning thereby, that, in another war, he would have an opportunity to
vindicate his courage, &c.
The general
impression here is that Mr. Webster cares nothing for the Whig party, but will
accept a nomination from any body of men not too contemptible to be noticed.
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 350
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