The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-05

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Coming from the source it does, the follow
ing letter VIII be read with general interest !:
REDcLIFF, Aug. s, 1860
DEAR SIR: / have received your polite in
vitation to dinner to be given on the 9th
inst, at Williamson, to my esteemed friend
and your able Representative, Col. Ashmore.
If the weather was not SO unusually hot, my
engagements would not permit me, on 50
short notice, to do more than thank you very
sincerely for your kind remembrance. The
shortness of the notice is not due to you, for
your letter was dated week ago, and might
have reached me in "a hours. But this hum
bug of 'cheap postage" so gratifying to those
who live on railroads, and are not aware that
by other methods Of taxation they pay twice
the nominal charges, in the South four times,
has, under system Of economy which strikes
down the weak rural routes, reduced this
route once daily, to q weekly one.
The political exigency of the day, is the
election Of the next President. It gives me
great pleasure to find that South Carolina,
having with her usual promptness and unan-
unity, made her choice, IS properly and per-
sistently pursuing the same quiet course in
reference to it that she has SO long pursued
1t never was a sounder policy than at this
time. Every man in America knows where
she stands, and the whole influence of her
undivided support Of Breckenridge and Lane
is as fully felt though she says nothing, as it
would be were she ever SO vociferous; while
any departure from the course she has so
long followed, and any unusual expression of
interest, would perhaps be damaging to the
candidates of her choice. South Carolina is
VIGOROUSLY charged with disunion procliyities,
and the charge cannot be well denied, though
really ii is not true in regard 70 . CSssstssss-
tiOnal Union. 1t is loudly proclaimed that
the ticket she supports is therefore adisunion
ticket, and any uncommon effort in its behalf
on her part, will have the effect of sustaining
this charge.
l have had the pleasure Of an intimate
with the Vice-Pre and Gen.
Lane, during the last three sessions OF Con-
gress, and while deem them eminently Quail
fled for the exalted positions for which thew
have been named, do not believe that any
two men could be found in America, who
would so promptly, and without second
thought, lay down their lives, if needed, for
the preservation of the Union. confess /
am myself very far behind them in that par
ticular. In my humble Judgment every vote |
given to them is vote for the Union, and ev- |
ery vote given to any other candidate in the |
field is. whether intended or not, q vote |
aoai,,st the Union. And it is to me passing |
strange that, while every sensible man in the
country must know that the election Of Mr.. |
Lincoln will put the Union in imminent and /
instant hazard, and that neither Mr.. Bell nor /
Mr.. Douglas can lay claim to one single au-
thenticated electoral vote, any Southern man,
or any Northern, Eastern or Western patySot
should, under any pretence, withhold his ar
dent support from the only men, who, in this
greatest Of all the crises which our country
las known since the adoption Of the Consti-
tution. can, under the circumstances prolong /
nd perhaps make permanent this Confeden-
y. / cannot help believing that they win be
siected. It is the best next step for the sue
,ess of which everything but principle should
% sacrificed.
Very truly yours,
]. a. HAMMOND.
To T. Broyles, Esq.