Fort Hill 8th July 1847
MY DEAR SIR, There
is not much to be added about politicks to what I wrote you last. The
difference between North and South is daily increasing, in reference to the
Slave question. It is hard to say to what it is destined to come. From every
appearance, it will at least break up the old party organization. The
indication is daily becoming stronger, in favour of General Taylor. The
administration is evidently greatly alarmed at his popularity. Their fate is,
however, sealed, whatever may become of the General.
The prevailing
opinion seems to be, that there will be peace ere long. I regard it, as
doubtful. I have no doubt, but the administration is most anxious for it, and
that Mexicans desire it, but when they come to fix on terms, there will be
great difficulty in agreeing. The former must insist, after so much blood and
treasury, on a large cession of territory, and the latter will feel great
repugnance to such cession. But be the terms, what they may, our
difficulty within, will commence with the termination of those with
Mexico.
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. 735
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