CINCINNATI,
September 9, 1866.
MY DARLING:— Dr.
James' [Webb's] letter to Dr. Davis makes me again anxious about Mother Webb.
Dr. Davis will go up if nothing unforeseen occurs in a few days. I hope her
case will turn out more favorably than Dr. James seems to apprehend.
I sleep at Dr.
Davis' and feed where hunger overtakes me. I speak every night. The canvass has
opened in a way that is most encouraging and exceedingly pleasant to me. I have
been in five country precincts including the most distant one and in three
wards and at the great city meeting. My written speech has gone off well, and
the offhand speech reported in the Commercial of today, which I send you,
delivered at the big meeting in Court Street took better than any speech I ever
delivered. The report is a good one but omits "laughter and cheers"
of which there was a superabundance.
Many things please
me. I always felt as you did that it was a sort of degradation to have Gaslobs
about assuming to be my rival in the party. He has now gone, as you see, clear
over and is speaking for the Rebs.
A lot of old Kanawha
soldiers, chiefly Thirty-fourth men, after I was done speaking last night, came
onto the stand and carried on in a style that would have delighted you. If it
keeps going as it begins, you would enjoy being here.
Love to all,
particularly Grandmother.
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