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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER 1814-1820. Letters?Elected to the Senate in 1817?His Maiden Speech?Extract from Speech on Sedition Laws ? Settling Controversies between States ? Sale of Public Lands?Resignation of Seat in Senate?House in Frankfort?Letters. (General Isaac Shelby to J. J. Crittenden.) April 8, 1814. MY DEAR SIR,?Your favor of the 18th came to hand when I was absent from home, and since my return a letter from the Secretary of War has been received, informing me that the appointment of officers has been made for the corps of riflemen to be raised under the late act of Congress. This letter was an answer to one of the last which I had written to him, in favor of some of my friends who wanted to enter the service, and assures me that Kentucky has had her full share in those appointments. I have, therefore, deemed it unnecessary to trouble the Secretary in favor of Captain H. R. Lewis, whom I well recollect, and of whom I formed a good opinion upon the late campaign. I am very apprehensive that we shall have peace by the mission to Gottenburg, if the affairs of Europe do not prevent it. Perhaps it may be well for us if we do obtain peace. The war is a ruinous one. We are, literally, a house divided against itself. And, although we may not fall, the war, if carried on, will finally exhaust the best blood and interest of the nation; none others will embark in it unless with a view to mar its success. This is lamentable, but true and unless we can cure the evil at home, defeat and disaster will attend the efforts of our best patriots. 1 may in confidence confess to you, that I lament over my country,?that she has in her very bosom a faction as relentless as the fire that is unquenchable,? capable of thwarting her best interests, and whose poisonous breath is extending to...
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