Jeremiah Clemens letters, 1842-1860.

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Jeremiah Clemens letters, 1842-1860.

1842-1860

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This collection consists of letters from Jeremiah Clemens to newspapers that were published. These include an October 5, 1842, letter reprinted in the "Jacksonville Republican" of Jacksonville, Alabama, in which Clemens wrote to Sam Houston, the president of Texas, excoriating Houston as weak and vain for describing the volunteers who fought for the independence of Texas as undisciplined and expensive when those volunteers had just driven back a force of Mexicans three times more numerous than they were. A July 12, 1855, letter, printed probably in a Huntsville, Alabama, newspaper, contains Clemens' lengthy defense of the Know-Nothing Party (more than one full newspaper sheet). In addition, there is a letter from Clemens to the editor of the “Montgomery Mail,” reprinted in the July 25, 1860, edition of the “Montgomery Weekly Post,” in which Clemens supports the Constitutional Union ticket of John Bell and Edward Everett in the 1860 United States presidential election; another letter urging the same course printed in the November 7, 1860, edition of the same paper; and a November 14, 1860, letter printed in the same paper reluctantly urging sectionalism and confederation of government in the South.

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