23/42 drafts are in the Library of Congress.] [Footnote 19: Letter to Isaac W.Hayne, Jan. oration in the Library of Congress.] [Footnote 21: James H.Hammond, _An Address delivered before the South Carolina Institute, at the first annual Fair, on the 20th November, 1849_ (Charleston. 1849).] Hammond found that not only the public but his own sons also, with the exception of Harry, were cool toward his advice and example; and he himself yielded to the temptation of the higher cotton prices in the 'fifties, and while not losing interest in cattle and small grain made cotton and corn his chief reliance. He appears to have salved his conscience in this relapse by devoting part of his income to the reclamation of a great marsh on his estate. |