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Letter from James Martin in Mobile, Alabama, to James Dellet in Washington, D.C.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the letter Martin comments on Dellet's rebuke of John Quincy Adams over his recent speech to African American citizens in Pittsburgh: "His expressed wish that the day of blood and carnage might come upon the South by a servile war is I think unparalelled [sic] for atrocity except in the vivid pictures drawn by Milton of the impulses and motives of his demons." Martin also discusses the reception of Henry Clay in Mobile; the strength of the Whig party in southern Alabama; and the annexation of Texas. At the time the letter was written, Dellet was serving in the United States House of Representatives; he served there from 1839 to 1841 and from 1843 to 1845.
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1844 March 29 1844 03 29
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