(Confidential.)
Washington City, January 2, 1840.
My Dear Sir: My
position on the Committees is to me a little mortifying. I do not profess to be
worthy of much consideration; but you have undoubtedly placed me in a
situation, the last but one on the last and least important Committee. Which
will give occasion to political enemies to reproach me and to reproach my
friends in the highly respectable district I have the honor to represent.
I shall feel more sensibly the taunts of enemies, because I
was among the first, who broke away from the Marshalled forces of the Whigs,
and sustained you to the end, for the highly honorable station you occupy. What
still adds to, and makes my position more peculiar, was the manner in which the
whig papers of Penn[sylvani]a and of my own district, approbated my course.
It may hereafter, be in your power to remedy, I will not say
the wrong, but the injury you have unconsciously inflicted on me.
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* Representative In Congress from Pennsylvania, 1839-1843;
died 1849.
SOURCE: Charles Henry Ambler, Editor, Annual Report
of the American Historical Association for the Year 1916 in Two Volumes, Volume
II, Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter 1826-1876, p. 31
