Mount Sterling, Ky., Septr. 10th 1848.
Dear Sir: As
Kentucky is to go for General Taylor in November next, I feel anxious to know
what Georgia and the other Southern States, particularly South Carolina and
Florida, will do. I think you can decide for Georgia, and give the reason for
the hope that is in you for the others. In my quarter of the Union, Kentucky
excepted, prospects for Cass and Butler are good.
The slave question in Ky. has taken deeper hold and awakens
more concern than usual. Many I think regard the crisis as at the door — but I
fear, notwithstanding, the Whigs have their hearts so zealously set upon availability,
that even that question will not controul them. How does Mr.
Stephens prosper under his motion and vote to lay the compromise Bill on the
Table? Knowing Members of Congress abhor long letters, I withhold much that I
might say. Congratulating you upon your safe return home and tendering to you
my ardent desire for your return to Congress, I remain as ever.
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* Member of Congress from Kentucky, 1835-1837, 1843-1845,
and 1847-1849.
SOURCE: Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Editor, The Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911, Volume 2: The
Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, p.
126
