New York, March 8, 1860.
Dear Pike:
Horace wants to go off in April, along between the 1st and the 10th, to be gone
for a week or so, and I write to propose that you should get here by the 1st.
He is going over Pennsylvania, and without your help we can't get along.
I have had a second letter from Hildreth. He is mending, and
really writes in good spirits. I infer that he is going to get well.
The Seward stock is rising, and that will console some of
our friends for the defeat of the city railroad schemes in Albany. George Law
has beat all the other speculators, and got a bill through the Senate which
looks like smothering the whole concern. It charters a road in the Seventh
Avenue, with forty-eight branches running through every cross-street. The great
political engineers are aghast at this triumph of their opponent. Perhaps they
may beat him yet; but I doubt it.
Yours faithfully,
C. A. Dana.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the
Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850
to 1860, p. 501
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