Your most welcome letter of the 16th ulto. came to hand on
Saturday. I am very glad to learn that after your hard pilgrimage you are in
more comfortable quarters with the means to meet present expenses.
Let me hear from you as often as you can, giving your
impressions of passing events in Kansas.
I have written Whitman, to whom I shall enclose this, that
in my opinion the Free-state party should wait for the Border-ruffian moves,
and checkmate them, as they are developed. Don't attack them, but if
they attack you, “Give them Jessie” and Fremont besides. You know how to do it.
But I think both in Kansas and in Congress, if we let the Democratic party try
to play their game, we shall find they will do themselves more harm than we
can do them.
SOURCE: Frank Preston Stearns, The Life and Public Services
of George Luther Stearns, p. 144
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