WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1827
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The business part~ of your letters shall be attended to, with pleasure, so soon as his election is over- which is daily expected. Mr R. throughout the session has been truly dignified, and E-ilent, and I h1ve heard his friends say, that he will rest his claims to a reelection on his last winters acts, and says he will stand, or fall by them, which by the by, I deem manly and hon- orable. He has surely never been so much himself, as he is this session, he is amiable, kind, and courteous to all he meets ·with. Times have been squally at Richmond, but his friends ·here say he will be elected easily, and it will be over in a few days, from this time. The vowers tha.t be here, are greatly busied in trying to defeat his election, which will not help their cause in Virginia. Of matters generally at this place I have written to my friend Dr Shelby,3 requesting him to let you see my clata so far as they are assumed by me! Mr McKinly 1 has arrived, and your friends here deem him, a good, and true man for the country! So far as I can judge, I woud say so too. Matters at this time here are surely favorable to a change in the administration, and as you will learn from my letter to Dr S. they are so elsewhere. . The baseness, and corruption of the present incumbents of power, woud displace men of more talents than what they possess. I have heard of some schemes of Clay in the west, and have no doubt if he shoud by his agent Mr Hammond, prossecute them, but what he will most timously "meet retributive jbstice" and first from the hands, of an indignant and manly community!!! I have seen letters from Ohio, and Ky on this subject, and it was not until a week ago, that I knew of his Hellish designs ; thro his base parulors, to be effected. You will see that they dare not attempt or rather, execute; what their foul souls have conceived, Tho' the game is desperate. Like the wounded serpent, when they find that, their adversary, is beyond the reach of their fangs, they will be compelld, in the anguish of disappointment to strike themse!ves; and of their own poison- perish! You loose no friends, but gain daily! It will be so until the great day of deliverance to our country arrives. Dr. Floyd 5 of Va. is a devoted friends of yours, and indeed, almost all the Crawford me. Govrs. Branch, and Holmes of N. Carolina with many others direct me to present their warmest regards to you! . . . . 1 John Spencer Bassett, Correspondence of And1·ew Jackson, III, 330-331. 20n November 22, 1826, Jackson wrote to Houston: "... I am anxious as early as your convenience will admit that you should see Doctor Wallace
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