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1900. CRAWFORD (William H.), Presidency and.—

A baseless and malicious attack
on Mr. Crawford has produced from him
so clear, so incontrovertible, and so temperate
a justification of himself as to have added much
to the strength of his interest: The question
will ultimately be, as I suggested in a former
letter to you, between Crawford and Adams,
with this in favor of Crawford that, although
many States have a different first favorite, he
is the second with nearly all, and that if it goes
into the Legislature he will surely be elected.—
To Richard Rush. Ford ed., x, 305.
(M. June. 1824)