I opened a letter from you this morning and lo, it was dated
30th August. Probably it had strayed to Rosecrans at Chattanooga and back here.
It breathed the old tale of suffering sadness. Such is our life. One day I am
successful, and consequently happy. Then, something adverse casts me down, and
I have to nerve myself up to the work.
Governor Johnson is afraid of me (or rather was) and opposed
my work, and I have been laboring to bring him over to the faith, and think I
have succeeded, but can't tell yet. If I do it will be a great gain, for then
we will try to settle the slavery question at Washington before Congress meets.
The Governor showed me recent letters from Lincoln and Chase
that were very encouraging, Lincoln looking to Tennessee for the key-note of
his policy for bringing back the slave states; and I should not be surprised if
I was to shape that policy, and the whole affair be settled before it was
thought of at the North.
SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public
Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 309-10
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