FULTENHAM, April 24,
1850.
SENATOR DICKINSON—Dear Sir—Yours of the 17th inst. came to
hand by due course of mail.
I sincerely hope you
will succeed in adjusting the slavery question. The position of yourself, Cass,
Clay, Webster, and the majority in the Senate on this question, is, no doubt,
in accordance with the wishes of a vast majority of the American people. If you
succeed, which God grant, it will, for all future time, set at rest the vexed
question of slavery. It will do more: fanaticism and abolitionism will be
rebuked, and demagogues who have been riding these hobbies will stand disgraced
in the estimation of all honest men. It will virtually carry out and sustain
the position taken by yourself and General Cass at the beginning of the
excitement. Clay and Webster are putting themselves on high ground.
