You have piped and I have not danced; you have called and I
have not come, though my trunk has been packed for ten days. Now I am busy,
besides the Second Cavalry, in raising a negro regiment (see circular), also in
raising a Union Club, and in various other little ways; but the Second
Massachusetts and its young captain will not get off for some six weeks yet
(probably), and if you think I can do any good, by coming on, towards pushing
up members for any of the great measures of the session, such as I regard the
Missouri bill.1 I will come almost any day upon getting a telegram
or letter from you.
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1 Abolishing slavery in Missouri and compensating
loyal owners.
SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and
Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 2, p. 1-2
