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ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS

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ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS

<b>163. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899>(1812-1883). Vice President of the CSA; elected to US Senate in 1866 but was refused his seat; governor of Georgia (1882). ALS, 4pp, 12mo, Crawfordville, GA, Feb 7, 1867. To J. Barnet Cohan at Charleston, Stephens writes in answer to Cohan’s query regarding not having received a response to his earlier letter, that the mails had been very erratic over the last six months. He thanks Cohan for an article he had enclosed commending Mr. Cleveland’s bank, “<i>as it will doubtless be very gratifying to him</i>” and would give it to him. As to Cohen’s question on Stephen’s observations on the future, he replies, “<i>I can only say to me all is dark. The prospect as far as I can discern is as gloomy and clueless as it has been for the last seven years—not a ray of genuine light from which a well grounded hope can spring do I not see!...I am hard at work on a History of the causes, conduct & results of the late war. It will not be ready for the press before the close of the year</i>...” Boldly penned and signed. Two 1½" and single 2½" fold separations with no paper loss; minor ink bleed and soiling; o/w VG.

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