Boston, June 27,1862.
My Dear Mr. Sedgwick, —
I have not heard a word from you since I wrote you an abusive letter because
you did not go far enough in your bill. I will take it all back if you are
offended, and make the most abject apologies! What is the present market price
of a senator? S. was rather dear at fifty, but I suppose he was rather high up
on the committee!
When are you coming
this way, and when will you and Mrs. Sedgwick give us a visit at Naushon? We
shall go there some time next month.
I was sorry, but
not surprised, to see that we had had a rebuff at Charleston.1 When
I returned from Port Royal, I wrote to Senator Wilson urging reinforcements and
predicting disaster if we went without them. I don't think now our forces are
safe on the Sea Islands, outside the guns of the navy, without reinforcements.
Very truly yours,
J. M. Forbes.
How beautifully
easy you legislators have made money! How valuable your restriction to one
hundred millions!
_______________
1 Probably referring to a skirmish at
Secessionville, S. C, in which the Union forces were defeated.
SOURCE: Sarah
Forbes Hughes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes,
Volume 1, p. 318-9
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