Life and Adventures of Josh Billings

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Excerpt from Life and Adventures of Josh Billings: With a Characteristic Sketch of the Humorist I duly received your obliging letter of the eighth instant, and am highly gratified to find, that notwithstanding I have been almost represented to be dead and buried, you still cherish for me the same kindly sentiments. My health was bad in the summer, but not so much so as was represented. It is now good. My election to the chair was without any effort on my part, and I agree with you, that it cannot fail to have a good effect, on another election. In respect to the result of that elece tion, great uncertainty continues to prevail If the elec tion devolves upon the House, as is now most probable, and the three highest should be Mr. Adams, Mr. Crawford and me, very little doubt is entertained, in that event, of my election. In the very first ballot should preoably receive the votes of eleven or twelve states It is now well understood that the Ten hessee delegation would be unaniriious for me, if Gen. Jackson should be dropped. I thank you most cordially for your kind offer to render me any service in your power. You are the best judge whether any exertions in your quarter would beneficial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.