Boston, April 22, 1850.
My Dear Sir: I return
your letter, agreeably to your request. It went sadly against my grain to
withhold it from the press, for no one can like it better than I do. If I were
not hampered by business obligations in this particular matter, there should be
no impediment to the swing of your broad ax in the Courier; nothing is
better relished here.
I hope the matters
in question will be all arranged before many days, when you shall hear from me
again. At present you may have the satisfaction of knowing that what you have
done will tend to great good. I should be most happy to see satisfaction of
another sort added to this.
Yours truly,
S. Kettell.
J. S. Pike, Esq.
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* The editor of the Boston Courier.
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. 32
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