Washington, November 24, 1861.
I am now indebted to you for two letters, one of yesterday
and one to-day; I am greatly indebted to you for them, and hope you will not
fail to “keep up the fire.” I heard to-day the ablest discourse I think that I
ever heard. I wish you could have heard it; it would have done your heart good.
This evening I have been spending with Mr. Channing. He is a very pleasant man
in private as well as in public. He has a full house of very intelligent
auditors, and there is no flagging of interest among them.
I had a long letter from Captain Rodgers, of the United
States steamer Wabash, giving an account of affairs at Port Royal. He is one of
the most accomplished men I ever met, and is said to be the best executive
officer in the navy. You remember what I always told you about Captain Du Pont.
His success has answered my expectations. Captain Porter goes out shortly in
command of an expedition against New Orleans.
Hale and Johnson are both gone, and I am “running the
committee”1 alone.
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1 Committee to inquire into the abandonment and
destruction of tbe public property at Pensacola, Norfolk, and Harper's Ferry.
SOURCE: William Salter, The Life of James W. Grimes,
p. 159
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