O'Bryan, Jordan, Letter, 1854 (C3286)

              	           Boonville Feb. 6th 1854
Hon. John G. Miller

		Dear Sir
			I have had the pleasure of receiving
two letters from you one dated the 3rd, the other the 25 of Jan-
and this I intend as an answer to both. In yours of the 3rd, you suggest
the propriety of my writing to some of my friends in different
portions of the district and urge on them the necessity of their
being active and vigilant. I had written to several of my frinds
along the line of the Pacific Railroad before I received your letter
not only urging them to be active and vigilant, but with a view 
to draw them out as to who was their man - For I had become
suspicious, that there were active tho private influences at work
to bring Woodson before the people, under the belief if they could
could get him fairly before the people, in a convention the
out counties could out vote the river counties and give him
the nomination. To these letters I have received but one answer
and that was from E. B. Cordell of Jef. City and that letter
confirmed my suspicions - He says he would prefer you to
any other man, but argues that Woodson is the strongest man,
and says Woodsons friends had been urging his claims on him.
In his letter he sent me a Notice to be published in the Observer
for the call of a convention to be held in Boonville in
April next, and says in that notice that, your name and Woodson's
are the only ones before the people - Fortunately about this time, Woodson
came out in the Lexington Express disclaiming any disposition
to be a candidate, and I used that as an apology to Cordell
for withholding his notice from publication, Urging we now