NEW YORK, [N. Y.], October 18, 1856.
MY DEAR SIR: The
glorious results of the elections of the 14th Inst in Pennsylvania, Indiana and
even Ohio have made the calling and election of B[uchanan]
and B[reckinridge] by the people next month "a fixed
fact!"
Permit me to offer
my hearty congratulations to one who will have contributed in such large
measure to such "consummation devoutly to be wished"; not only by a
long and brilliant career as a Statesman, but particularly by his masterly and
profound exposition of national, democratic truths in this State. I sent you a
copy of the Daily News (with which I am now connected)
commenting upon this effort at Poughkeepsie.
Such has been the
inspiriting effect upon the people of New York that truly I should not be
surprised to find them following the example of P[ennsylvani]a and Indiana.
The Herald in its leader gives up the contest!
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), pp. 199-200
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