Katie Hatton
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Displaying 721 - 740 of 950I ought to find space to add that the Texas letter, in my judgment, fully & more than ever justifies the satisfied confidence with which our people shrug their shoulders, give a knowing look, & tell the Whigs to ask you as many questions as they please Perhaps they do not consider that what is so safe for them may not be to all others the most easy or agreeable...
You see it never rains but it pours. If you complained of my silence, you may now reprove me for the reverse for this is the fourth letter—including that on behalf of my friend Cole—which I have written you within two or three weeks.
I have been intending to write you for several months but the pressure of my official duties has hitherto prevented me from doing so. My Spring Circuit is now however nearly over & a little leisure affords me the opportunity of saying a word to you on the state of politics in Alabama. Depend on it then, that Alabama is thoroughly Democratic & as thoroughly V....
When I wrote you in reference to Mr. Blair's course, I had no conception that he and I should ever be placed in a hostile attitude, publicly or privately.
—At a Convention of the democratic party of the State in Indiana, held at the State House in Indianapolis, on Monday the 9th day of January 1843–the enclosed resolutions were unanimously adopted on the part of that Convention, and the undersigned appointed a Committee to address you in reference to the same.
My stay at home between the Sessions was so short, all the time promising myself the pleasure of a visit to Kinderhook, as I now do for next summer, tho' every day more rebuked by the uncertainties of all future action.
I scarcely know why I have so long postponed to reply to your last letter, except that I have thought from day to day that I might collect some matter of news for you which had not reached you from any other source.
On my return home from a visit to my plantation in Mississippi, a few days ago, I received your letter of the 11th ultimo, announcing our great victory in New York. I had been prepared to anticipate success in that State, but not by so overwhelming a majority as the result proves.
I am not sure whether I wrote to you since the preparatory meeting held at the Courthouse on the 24 November–of which I sent you a newspaper containing the proceedings. If I did not, I can assure you that it was a spontaneous expression of the feeling which I am quite satisfied prevails through the great body of the Democratic party.
I received on last Saturday evening your letters of the 5th and 7th, but the pressing nature of my business in Richmond, postponed, answers untill my return to this place, which I reached last last night. The aspect of affairs, was far better than I had anticipated, and I now feel safe in asserting that Mr McDowell will be elected Governor by a decisive majority.
In common with all your personal & political friends in this state, I have learned with great satisfaction that it is your intention to pass through New Orleans, on your way to the Hermitage. I am uncertain whether this letter will find you on your route.
What a progress you have had! If, as I have no doubt, the evidence is clear, spontaneous welcome, there never has been any thing like it, and all the friends of your adminsitration have witnessed it with personal as well as political gratification. If Congress ever adjorns—I have often suggested latterly that we ought to be kept here till the 4.
I should have sooner answered yr. kind letter of the 7. inst. but for the laborious idleness in which you know we are absorbed here.
The bank bill passed the House yesterday in the same form it came from the Senate, and to day it goes to the President, and the better opinion is, that it will be vetoed. We shall see before many days. It will produce some little stir here, however a great many whigs particularly the Eastern whigs will not much regret a veto.
Yours of the 30th ultimo has been received with its enclosure for which I thank you.
I red. your kind letter, & reciprocate with great pleasure the feelings contained in it.
I have recd., with much satisfaction, your letter communicating to me by the direction of a Democratic Convention held in the 9th. Ward of the city of Newyork a copy of its proceedings, in which the conduct of Mr Tyler in placing his veto on the Fiscal Bank ^Bill^ is highly approved, & the repeal of the Independent Treasury System decidedly condemned.
I have already too long delayed my acknowledgments for the kind and flattering expressions contained in your letter to the N.Y. Committee. You never tire in the service of your friends. That however rare & estimable the demonstration of this feature in your character, you should not suffer it to lead to an act of injustice to yourself.
On my return home I found a great many french newspapers together with the inclosed letter from Joseph Bonaparte sent by him to me to shew the state of feeling in France occasioned by the proposed removal of his brother's remains.
You will perceive that the enclosed is precisely the thing to make Capital with in the Slave States at the expense of Confidence & good faith How Mr Van Buren could have Committed himself So far is inexplicable to me Make what use of it you please but dont send it to the Whig Central Committee at Richmond