Friday, 31st Jan'y, 1851.
My Dear Mann: — I have summoned some good men and true to
hold a council of war. Alas! we are in an extremity, but so much the more it
behooves us to fight. Can't you send something for our paper upon the crisis,
and the responsibility resting upon those who, having the power to send
guardian angels to Washington, send devils to destroy, or do-nothing squires to
sing peace, peace when there is no peace? I'll take care you are not known.
Ever yours,
S. G. Howe.
SOURCE: Laura E. Richards, Editor, Letters and
Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, Volume 2, p. 336
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