The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858

Genteel Gentile, page 040

indinnation at the manner in which this rcpori was avilled upon & talked about He had called upon me io know ,f he (Mr 0) were not right ,I, denymg the fact I told hm , had understood entmly the contrary Dr Forney' called about two or three times every day, talkmg always about hawng ,uii had a mtched battle with some one about ,i "I told them they would not dare to say the Governor told a lie, & that the Go", had told me, (Dr F ) li was aso " Yesterday hc called to say he had been wntnw to the Presldcni, & wshed to read me a rough draft of the Ictter--adding "1 know (or believe) a letter has been wriiten from this camp to a member of Congress in Washington; the writer has requested it should be laid before Genl Cass: stating the "general belief" af Govr's pd understanding with 8. Young." This Dr Forney desired to contradict in his letter to MI Buchanan. 1 did not feel ai liberty friendly feeling-v&h I believe is real & & io obtain my opinion. Dr Mills (whom 1 feel confidence in much more than in most of the talkers about me) was in my teni both yester- day morng & to-day. To-day I told him (but mentioning no namea) that I heard a letter filled with the reports of your pre- vious understanding with Young had been sent to Washing- ton on the 18th of this month. He said energetically, "I wish the Governar knew that." then he went on to say, "There are some persans here (& I will not mention names) who pretend to the Governor's face that they are his wellLwishers, who are now, & have been, talking the fastest against him & the loudest, when they are not in his presence. 1 am enraged ai 40