This letter (of Commodore Du Pont) will convince you of what
I always told you, that Du Pont is a remarkably discreet, judicious, practical
man, with generous, noble impulses, and withal a Christian gentleman.
This morning I drew up and passed through the Senate a bill
for the benefit of Robert Small, giving him and his associates one-half of the
value of the steamer Planter, and also one-half of the value of all the arms,
munitions, etc., on board at the time she was captured. The amount to be
distributed among him and his associates will be about fifteen thousand
dollars.
The President has to-day rescinded Hunter's
proclamation. The result will be a general row in the country. All the
radical Republicans are indignant but me, and I am not, because I have expected
it, and was ready for it. They did not anticipate it, though I have told them
all along that it was sure to come. But the end must come, protracted by the
obstinacy and stupidity of rulers it may be, but come it will nevertheless.
SOURCE: William Salter, The Life of James W. Grimes,
p. 196-7
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