WASHINGTON, January 16, 1848.
MY DEAR SON, — I received
this moment your favor of the 10th, and was glad to hear that all are well at
home. My cause is not likely to be reached, I fear, for two or three weeks, if
it be reached at all. I have not changed my purpose on the subject to which you
refer. I have only suspended the execution of it in deference to some friends
who fear that bad consequences to the cause and the country might ensue if I
were immediately to execute it.
Mr. Jacobs is to be
married to-morrow, and I shall go to his wedding.
I send a list of
some plants which Mr. Prince has forwarded to me.
I am sorry that you
indulge in bad spirits. You are wrong to do so, and I think you have no
occasion to do so. You have much to cheer and animate you. More by far than
most persons.
My love to Susan and
the children.
SOURCE: Calvin Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 553
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