August 10.
. . . I have the pleasure of sending you a copy of the
Memoir to Mr. Secretary Stanton, of which I spoke in my letter of yesterday.
Mr. Petigru has always been acknowledged, by friend and foe, to be the most
accomplished lawyer of the South. He was a decided and efficient Union man in
the times of Nullification. He is now seventy-five years old, and remains
unmolested, as the “only Union man of South Carolina,” on account of his age and
almost complete retirement, he has always been a good friend of mine. . . .
SOURCE: Thomas Sergeant Perry, Editor, The Life and
Letters of Francis Lieber, p. 336
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