{"id":89905,"date":"2020-04-14T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=89905"},"modified":"2020-05-04T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T15:09:39","slug":"alexander-h-stephens-to-j-henly-smith-s-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-h-stephens-to-j-henly-smith-s-4\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Crawfordville [Ga.], <em>April 14th, 1860.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dear Smith, I got home last night from Hancock court and found your letter of the date I forget but the one about your correspondence with the Confederacy. I would advise you to write as requested. I do not know what the prospect for your pay will be; but he is a clever man personally. I would simply give him the news. He is not a disunionist per se as I understand him. He is not in favour of opening the African slave trade either, as I understand him. He does no good however to any cause, in my opinion. He is too violent. This I say to you. His judgment is not good. I would advise you, if you write, neither to advocate disunion or the opening of the slave trade. The people here at present I believe are as much opposed to it as they are at the North ; and I believe the Northern people could be induced to open it sooner than the Southern people. It would be useless to write on that subject at this time. I have nothing more to say ; no time rather to say more.<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> Endorsed in pencil on a blank page at the end of this letter is the following by J. Henly Smith :<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames P. Hamilton, Editor of the Southern Confederacy, published at Atlanta, Ga.,has requested me to correspond for him. As Mr. Stephens advises it, I will comply. \u2014 J. H. S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>From <em>Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander H. Stephens would later become Vice President of the Confederated States of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crawfordville [Ga.], April 14th, 1860. Dear Smith, I got home last night from Hancock court and found your letter of the date I forget but the one about your correspondence with the Confederacy. I would advise you to write as requested. I do not know what the prospect for your pay will be; but he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":89167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/stephens_alexander_h.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}