MY DEAR SIR: I
congratulate you and all true national men on the glorious result of the
Presidential Election and especially on the decisive vote of the great mother
of States and Statesmen. The "Old North" has also performed her duty
nobly in this crisis, greatly increasing the majority of August last. Old Mecklenburg where
I live has again vindicated principles as important to us, as those of the
Revolution.
I read with the
greatest pleasure your brilliant speech during the Campaign, at Poughkeepsie
and had parts of it circulated in our papers, with good effect.
* A Representative
in Congress from North Carolina, 1843-1849; minister to Spain, 1849-1853.
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), p. 200
