Anna Dickinson GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE Fragments by Dickinson, Anna ca 1895-1905illigalities of the great State Institution that would have done your heart good.- & the “Drink” lies were exploded with the rest.and so having legally established the status of a I always the same A.D. sober & sane, with the newspaper suits I think he will unmask the crime done against her. To Miss Isom 4.17.97"Gentlemen" ____? In this letter I enclose the copy of an epistle to which I call your attention [& to which] concerning which I make inquiry. If I have not made a mistake you will send immediate reply. You have given the weight of your name to a [printed] criminal libel in the guise of sympathetic appeal. To whom did you give it? —after the giving & its resultant effect from whom did you receiv the first deposit of this "Fund."? [I am asking you for more important purpose than the gratification that of personal enlightenment. If you have made a mistake in this matter rectify [??] as speedily as possible. Silence on your part will [go on record] [serv as proof that ] [it was is now crime ] [you are] Since the statements in the open letter could bring any one of the signers to the bar of a civil or criminal court is it impossible that so prominent a House as yours could be connected with them save by some link in which it placedimplicit confidence [as such] & the minor matter of a depositor the books themselves will show. I send this second letter to you the head of your House for a more important purpose than the await, for your gratification of own credit, an 'curiosity.,' - immediate reply. Anna E. DickinsonIf you yourself do not know the Executors of the dead as well as the living members of your House can help you to a straightforward [reply] response to these questions. The no "answer” [The] sent on [the 6 & 25th] of it [comes] came from an irresponsible hand is trivial. If from a responsible one is disingenuous in the full meaning of the word. Anna E Dickinsonquibble fr one worth making that your clerk failed to know 405 from 465 and not that I gave a [false] wrong address to my place of residence. =I did not write to ask you about Editorials in the Philadelphia "Times"_ nor of who deposited money with you on the 8th of April 1891. I asked you to whom you gave your consent to have published to the world your readiness & desire to accept trust money for the benefit of people “who may hereafter be found deserving of generous Public recognition “ [at] [the expense] through the medium of a criminal attempt [of[ [destroying] to destroy the life & honestly wonfame of Anna Dickinson That is the main question [The second one is not who was the last [but the first] depositor to this fund The second one is [not who deposited money with you on the 8 of April but] who opened [the accounts or accounts with you on the above with you] with you [on this] to this end? [As no answer whatever has been made to my inquiry, you will readily see that the "trust" expressed by [your] the writer of the 13th] is misplaced, & thatfolk called on me & had handsome things to say. The best of the four houses was the last. — (Which is always so.) I do not know where you are. Have had nothing since last Thursday, but will send this to May's care. I hope & pray nothing is wrong. — Love to Mary. - Dear love to Maumee (I will write her tomorrow) - & always much to Dickey Anna I do not know if I sent the scrap from Zanesville. - Keep the letters I send as well as yr scraps.like Anna again “said Julia Myers, - but Mrs. Fowler who is getting very grey, & who as I told them is jealous of every body apparently has made up her mind that I must be doing something diabolical, & has set Ellen on the scare. - as to Ellen for mercy's sake pay no heed to any of her "scare" She is as good as gold, but for talking & writing she is a double distilled fool, So put that aside. I wish to goodness I had not so many feminine acquaintances who do make asses oflimbs" than a lamp post has,. I have had off & on a touch of "skatica" & it lames me, & the Dr says the whole terribel headache trouble of Atlantic city, came from the horrible glare on my eyes. The balls felt like fire. Since I have got away they have quite left me, As to what I put on my hair, there is nothing in it to hurt a fly. - My hair has fits of being lighter & darker as thee knows this summer it has been very like its old self ("looks jist books, & the stockings were thy size. If the American Girl was in , & I think it was, - "keep till called for." - more anon. Dear love now from Anna Will you have enough to furnish with? There are some of my things at Chatties, — & by the by I must write her a line, I try "not to worry"as thee says to me, & am sure that some where - * not too far ahead "the lane will turn." There never was such rubbish talked under the sun as the stuff about my hair. The barber cut it in such a diabolical shape as to take all curl out of it — it was not merely short as a shoe brush but haggled off "against the grain". I have no more "swelling in my lower Anne Boleyn because I did not really need it after our New York rehearsal. We are expected to put it on at Columbus, but I doubt the people being ready. The Cardinal & Jane are going to be exceedingly good. We will see about the others. I am tired enough to day, but expect to get rested by Columbus, & I have a very good middle aged woman a Mrs Smith, for my dresser who tries to take care of me. Sheis a widow, & safe "will you please Miss Dickinson present my compliments to your mother." do be sure she has 'em, It is a great pleasure to hear that you are all to be in Phila, & I hope & pray I may strike a pile of money to help along. I did not get thy letter to Lib Lansing in care (last) till after the box was packed to send. I thought thee would care to read theNo 44 W. 12 st New York 6.16.1893 To/ Mr. Paul Butler Dear Sir; [Mrs.] Some time since my friend the Rev. [Mr] Phil? Hanaford, [told] informed me she had written you concerning a cameo of your father belonging to me, - I do not [know for what] [shall] know [just] what she wrote, & [she has been for a length of time absent from the city] She has been for a length of time absentfrom New York & I write myself that to [may] some conclusion may be reached. - Briefly then: - the cameo is a copy of Edward Brackett's bust of [you] Gen. Butler made by a promising young soldier-artist, & said [to be] by competent judges to be both the best profile likeness of your father & one of he most admirable pieces of carving extant, I bought it to help a penniless & almost starving boy. & I wish now to sell it. - Naturally [my] I offer it first to you. If you see it I doubt not you will desire to own it. - Are you to be in New York? & soon? I am going in a [little while] few days to Asbury & would like your decision [if possible]if possible before leaving town.Will you make an appointment to see the cameo and its owner? [& in any case let me have some idea of what your decision] & will you whatever [in any case] the answer [decision] let me hear from you speedily [presently] as in any case, I purpose parting with it soon. [Sincerely] Truly Yours Anna E Dickinson no 44 w. 12 St. N.Y. 5.17.93 Dear Sir; Thanks very much for the offered hospitality of the box. I will gladly occupy it this evening - & still more gladly have a word with you. = As to the plays, - I have never let "Aurelian" go out of my own keeping [[& do not c & do not] & am not willing to do so even with the possession of hands as honorable as yours. ] I have a type writtencopy somewhere & it can be found tho' the one [at which] I was considering when I wrote to you is my own reading copy. - "The Test of Honor" is in manuscript alone but [c] transcribed in a printing clear hand. == If you have the time before you leave & so [say] appoint I will bring them to you, & with them a book o friend & tell you all you may need or wish to know as you [lo] read them. - If not & you so desire you shall see them on [t] your return in the autumn. tho' I [would certainly] certainly I would prefer [the] youI beg you will not deem me remiss in thanking you for the information sent & for your most kind note. = I waited to see someone at 10th st. that I might report to you. — Did see Mr. Thatcher who tells me Mr. Prang is to be in New York soon. When I have seen him whether he says yes or no to the book I am coming to [tax] you[r]. [time with some mew questions].for a little more advice. [You see what] Mr. Thatcher seems to regard the book as, "flawless." — With renewed thanks believe me [Yours Sincerely] truly yours To Mrs Wagnallsfirst & the only one to whom I have thought of offering. - I do not know that it is to your convenience to make me to such an amount your debtor, but if you can do so I feel that you will. - If my bit of business goes through all right, I will return it very soon. If not, then as soon as may be. If you cannot do it, say so without fear that I will misapprehend, for I know you are not as rich as you are kind. This is a difficult thing for me to put on paper, & so it looks rugged & blunt enough but you will read & understandI hesitate, - & yet do not fear to write of this matter that is to be put on this page, You have said to me you have made your wish reality in such wise I have faith in your heart & word. - I have been trying to complete a matter of business by which I would have the sum of ($150.00). one hundred & fifty dollars in hand by a 'needed" date, but am not sure I will get it in time. There have been such endless lies spread for me that I would go hungry & cold before I would ask for a loan - & even for this matter about which I will tell you later, you are the8.23.1907 To/ Mr H D D K. 71 B. Mass My Dear Sir [Mr Dupee] I said I was sorry not to see you. I am. - I greatly] wished to ask [of] a [various] collection of questions concerning the present fashion of plays, - also of Readings, [so far as] - also of a play that years ago had been produced & played with much success in new York would have better show for reproduction in Boston [than] where it had never been played than in New York where it had been. - [If you] Passing the many unformulated questions if you have the time will you send my a reply as to your opinion on the case. You know why I write you and continue to write as tho' I had a matter of fact claim on you. That I always hold you in mind with a [kind] old friend--who has naught to do with who would help me there if he could. Whether for [?] work or recreation, [?] may you have the trip of your liking abroad that friendship should be able to endure without suspicion [?] the surest touch stone of its sufficiency. I. O. Hughes ---And yet I leave the letters of those I love unanswered so long! to Norton Mills M Mrs. Noble women [?] K.F. Hannibal Williams 11 of May [?]-how [?] London [?] Marcella Phebie Croft 332 Greene Ave Brooklyn 100 34 ____ 134 30 ____ 104 10 ____ 94 50 ____ 44 3 3 2 15 1 8 2 3 1 ___ ___ 27 9 27 ____ 54Judge Achison I have known you many years, & have believed you to be an honorable man & a just judge, that you believd in a God & a Hereafter you evidently believ in nothing of the kind ,& I am done with you foreverHe was more energetic than the defendant's Counsel. The Court interposed objections & he passed upon then Acheson Miss Anna E. Dickinson [*Mrs. Anne E Dickinson. - Of the many strange and remarkable personages which genius, ambition and revolutions have given to the world, none have been so marked, on the woman side of the race, as Mrs. Dickinson. She is the crowning personage of a pecu’lar class of genius and greatness, headed by Hypatia and succeeded by Joan of Arc and Fanny Wright. In ability she stands side by side with the former and the latter, and in the wonderful display of her meteoric eloquence and brilliant genius, she ranks with Joan of Arc, the heroine and the captive of a nation. Mrs. Dickinson is not the studied soquirement of schools and seminaries, but the gift of God. It transcends all discipline and is the most perfect gift of genius. In oratory, no man is her superior. Hereloquence draws all men and women of diverse creeds and nationalities to hear her discussions.*] [*fruit*] In after years and in distant ages, [shine] she will shine [forth] in history as the brightest girl that the nineteenth century gave to America.Part of preface Mr. Greeley wrote for a life of A. D. which she did not care to have gone on with.With the Pres of the U.S.. The Vice Pres of the US. the Sec of state of the U.S. The [Post M] Attorney Gen of th U S. The P Master G. (mark him more of the E S. - The entire Senate of the U.S (backing (by silence the answer to this demand of Right) this U.S Judge in his service of Hill the State of Pa in the person of Oglesby didn't dare come into court to face me Settled Paid To the P.W.H. W. D.C I appeal to your clear understanding & kind & brave heart to interpose form authority to prevent an outrage which will dishonor the country & create a foul blot on the american flag (about the Syrians xx I no not think such a thing ought to happen under your administration unless you personally decidethat the case is without remedy + if our laws require this cruelty it is time for a revolution and your just the man to head it! Within half an hour the (?) had telegraphed TCI spoke to the man on the plain on which he claims to stand. Look the man at his own valuation - not mine. Roosevelt Gov. Hastings Perhaps vanity might do where no sense of Justice could replyHenry W. Blair He must have thought I was made of stout stuff - if I even had lost my breath - to have recovered under the conditions he had helped to make for me.Anne Boleyn A crown of thorns 1876 [*3630.[?]*] 33 union square women's League I will thank you to send me renewal of copyright - 3630 [?] 18 on Anne Boleyn or A Crown of Thorns respectfully, E[?][in] americas [?eki????]The sun rose on him + the them? sun sat down on him them? Sir Herbert Spencer (not-over but at [halt] 20 times.) = spent a month with Wendell Phillips, who gave up everything of his own for [whil] people to find the agricultural narrative-toneselected was the poor plain frame shanty in which hid alone the old mothers of sons who were clergymen, Dr.s, lawyers and without servants or help!!! Maximilian, King of Luxor! (and that more than ever). When the Republican Party [?] find one fit to save the world they looked all about and found on the prairie of [?] a better world [?] and put the standard in his hand.To Ellen 10.19.93 A fine display of statesmanship at Washington!! I wonder if any of the creatures in the "lead" of the Republican Party think they did a good thing when they tried to destroy me because I was "too Radical" & would hang fast to the Ballot - "a dead issue". The next fight will have to be made on -That-or there will be no Republican Party to fight about any thing-There isn't much of one now! If it thinks to go back into power simply on the blunders of the foe it will be badly mistaken Sackett & Wilheim Litho. Co. N.Y. TERRE HAUTE HOUSE CHAS. BAUR MANAGER Terre Haute, Ind. — 188— the claws of voters and I suspect nobody affects so many of them. I wish Barrett would get in a dig there, the Tribune ignores the crowd. The World says it is women. And the Republican "Republican" sticks the two nice points together. (More of this & some other matters from L. or C. — By the by Gougar, of course they never thought of a challenge, & of course I never said what the Tribune says I said. I have other & more important work on hand than talking with some body who amounts to nothing. (tho' that is to be said only to thee.this card was on the most gorgious bouquet ever seen, & I send yr card to my dear darling little Maumee. Wish it were ye flowers. She is to smell it, make believe real hard & think it is them. Dearest dear love to her. — I knew the T's would care for my welfare. Thank 'em for it & give them my love. I hope Mrs Gar will stay till I come back. Want to see her. I believe I have had all the letters, package etc. Hope the lovely Midge has got some one to help her in prospect. Dear love to she. (my warm regards to Barrett if thee sees or writes to him.) Emma's dear love to both. R to mis. A17) to secure exposure, and some specie of nation wide reparation. And to return to my opening sentence that in putting this case before you. I believe I am putting it not only to the sworn Chief Magistrate, but to one who "searches his spirit for the right." Most respectfully AED2) [these?], & so try to cover my expenses. This money will be forthcoming about the first of July if not before. - I have tried through Mr Crane, & in all sorts of ways I could devise, & finally went to Mr,. Collyer, who sent to me a membre of his Church, a broker; & very rich man, who has every where been trying, & says he can get me what I want early in July, if not before. The land is abundantly wortheven twice what I want twice told, but keep all till [?] that men are very slow to lend to a woman, to lend on unimproved property, & to lend on a second mortgage. However! I knew nothing of that infamous Hill Case till I saw the verdict in yesterdays Chicago Tribune. When I telegraphed to Sen Chatfield at once. - Later came thy two letters, one of them [enclosing?] [Balty i ?]. That little witch [Thompson?] in my opinion is in This is a selfish letter, but I do not desire that it should be. I think of you very, very often [in the course of each day], & of how lonely you must be. With the great gap inside you that one as good & efficient & gracious & loving had filled. I hope that you are [?] tho' to live your life & [that] I know you stand ready to do others good [if you] & that if nothing else should bring you comfort & blessing. — & by & by there is the reunion in which I believe - beyond all the Cross & loss here. I [hope] trust you are well & that all is well with you & I am [truly] faithfully your friend AEDNo. 101 W 54 St N.Y. 5 3 1894 My dear--here is the paper. I never made one out & so do not know if this is in right shape. if it is not you can send it back with one in correct form [or bring with you when you come] for me to sign --I am exceedingly yours & George's debtor, & I beg that he "will not put it into bank"--for a variety of reasons. I make it for [?]months & hope the skies will rain money shortly. $50.00 1st half of [?] No. 10 65 [?] N.Y.C. 6.10.1910 You know Lincoln always sat in a listening attitude. He wanted the People to lead You must put dynamite under the People. Do you know, I think the wording of that letter is not quite Lincoln-ese? What if that fine sentence--somewhere-- [merit] the Saving of the Republic "And then there will be some Black men who will remember that with silent tongue (& something & something--I haven'tthe sentence) and will find [?]--they helped mankind on to this grand Consummation! --A Conclusive argument--What they so won he evidently thought they were "fit" to hold. And again, what odds? Dynamite the People. They won the war. They should win for themselves all the legitimate consequences regardless of anybody.What was his actual tribute paid at the shrine of [?] Pure [?]? Or having its stamp behind of an arrogant and dangerous foe. Blinded more true hindered with desire for [?] of the [?] and [?] I put him to the test for cover self evident a gentleman, a friend of John Hay Allison's right-hand= again I am your debtor. - [accept my] & pay you as well as I can with hearty thanks. - = You must have thought [I was] me a [denizen] prowler of the [woods] wilderness rather than a resident of New York not to know you had done me the [favor] kindness of [naming] suggesting your own Publishers. -my copy of the "Turn of the Balance" was [mutilated - so far as] lacking in the matter of title page - and I did not awake to possibilities and consequent information till after I had written for the second time. = I am housed with a cold. - Later I will see what I find,. & [and tele you. with your good] will [will write about] write you concerning it. = I know you are very busy - and I congratulate you on the [oppo] conditions that make you so. - once more with thanks and best wishes believe me [A] S.Vapropos - you are [quite] right in supposing I was & am interested in all the developments of the Brownsville affair including the suit for Oscar Reid & entered of Ward Mullen & Woodbridge. - I take for granted Mr. Foraker - with others - backed that "unfinished business." And that spite of his absence from the Senate he is [still [? ? the fate] watching the outcome and the ultimate fate of the Battalion.I thank you for your sug- gestion and for the most friendly proffer of your home -[and] but without pouring ice water on your [enbl] faith will assure you that Political Courage on a defined line of action - and personal Moral - plain individual Courage are two very different [growths] [matters] specimens -as Capn Cutler remarks "the bearings o' this observation lies in the application on't." - You will know more about this, later on 5 I say "you will know" because I am certain you will be interested to read. - And that reminds me, - among your bookish acquaintances in Mass, do you count Mr. I. H. Stark? - or his Publishers of "The Loyalists of Mass." W.B. Clark & Co.? -- and what manner of men [for] are they? - the Publishers, specially, for Standing? - and resolution? -- [*perhaps even audacity*]4 Your letter tells me you have bothered yourself to know the source of your quotation. - I had no interest in that save to hope you did not think the abortion of a report- of the speech as made in the New York papers [especially the Tribune] was a correct one.- So [do not afflict yourself with that] dismiss that from your cares! of course you have been reading Hepburn - and 6 newspaper controversies anent "Lee" - and "Fenty" and "Harvard Comment [and others] et al -- I wonder why the "Sun" writes of Col. J.W. Higginson and his Mushy-gush and of "Mr [N.L.] Hallowell of Harvard" - Certainly Norwood Hallowell carried his credentials where even fools can read There was a capital letter in the W. 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NORVIN GREEN, President, Receiver's No. Time Filed. Check. Send the following message, subject to the above terms , which are hereby agreed to.}...............................................................................................1883. To............................................................................................... Ache always seems to give the head a sort of refreshment. So as I say stop fretting over that. (When this letter is read throw it in the fire.) READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT AT THE TOPthemselves. Be sure & give my love to Ed & Annie & fr rest & to John when thee writes Always Anna I heard about that hair [business at A C till I was sick of it, the more so as I had nothing in it while there but Sea water which made it like a broom, & the dressing I do use I brush on very lightly & very seldom & so far from making my head 4 and National employed Anna Dickinson regardless of acute differences between Principles & Policies because they "had to have her as a vote getter! - The Pres. Contest of /88 in which I was informed by Mr Hobart - that I was "the only speaker demanded by Mr. Harrison for his own State. - He ought to have added, what I later knew - the Slate in which the Grand Army & Prohibition were listeners requiring speech that was an unknown tongue to the New [dinner-pail] [?] [prophets [?] pupils] tinplate is[propaganda] Smooth water in Indiana. Many & angry storms in New 5 York - with the final threat of a law suit - and an expose in court-room & newspaper that would [certainly] assuredly be the bursting of a bomb. The Party of my girlhood with which I had worked & fought -- for the quarter of a century had changed as the Soldiers of the Republic found the liquor is of the Empire. - a far cry fro /94 to /04 & /14. But even across the "Great Divide" with an adding accumulation of personal wrongs I would have exchanged service for silver but for one matter "What" asked a group of "old friends" among them [Misses] Mr Hobart, Mr Clarksen, Mr McLenden & Mr Dudley -- in the course of(6 some [very searching] keen & direct converse "What will you do in 92 if we nominate Whitelaw?" "Is this supposed to be humerous? [funny]? "Not at all!" - "Very much not at all!" "Quite serious." "For the ticket? - For first place." "Sure." "Maybe." "He hopes for it." "Second place certainly.["] How say?" "The thing is too perpostrous to [talk about]." "Say." anything -But - Come. Talk a little, Why not? Because, as foolish & even abominable as some of the doings, the Party is full of strength & enjoys life, - Why (7 commit suicide? - too you think a Golden Serpent - (Father-in-laws gold-fever at that) can glide you into the White House. - The sting of its tail would posin you all together." -Oh, Oh,'-" Dont be so severe on [Jacob] Whitelaw! -" "a [line] bit too savage!" —" I know - she means Greeley." -" Is that it?" =You [know] have it, - or why suggest-? "Oh." - "An old story," - "Stale", "a sort of legend." - few [vulid,"] knew anyhow', Everybody forgets." - "Who will ventilate it." ="Well." I [answered said] answered I have been convincing you & myself that this is the last Jus Battle in which I will fight, but [were the opportunity to] if you nominate W.R. I will tell "the story of Greeley" 8 with what you all have "covered" since 72 because "you needed the Tribune." - from Portland Maine to P Oregon, and you & I [all] know there is not a decent man who hears it -- unless he be a victim of Party-paralysis who will not help to bury your candidate & you together. = = a law suit entered in Nov. /88, - It and its adjunct of newspaper notoriety - through Col. Bliss for the Com & pliant Judges - "adjourned" from time to time till Feb. 1891. - When I said ["]in any event_ silence no longer. = Steadily through the Political [atmosphere] mist (one of two [well defined] figures [in the Political atmosphere] growing to definite proportions in 1892. A & R or H & R (9 [Here I transcribe a few paragraphs from] = For many years = When not "on the road," [for many years] my home was New York City. Elsewhere in a small country town in Pa I had stored [a} [mass] many valuable possessions. -- [and] here I transcribe [a] [few] some paragraphs from a letter written under date of 2.1.1901 & addressed by me personally to each & every U.S. Senator of the 30th Congress: = on the 28th, = then the Authorities = the Judge before whom = [I am a law abiding?](10 Far stranger than my experiences in Pa. [has] have been those with the Senate of the U.S. the letter, and groups that followed it. =[ I may have thought some of the members of the '66] [I may have had] at the back of my brain when these [letters] screeds were [written] penned I may have [visualized] "recorded" a scene in the House instead of a blending of memories sometimes of Rep. [of] January 64. I should & ideals rather, have [reme] noted that men [the time of] of past or heirs of past time whom I regarded as patriots. might merely be politicians, & that politics full often weakens strong men with the dry rot of cowardice & induces able men to voluntarily submit to chains. - Be this as it may I knew & know that the (11 Senate of the U.S has the power to do whatever it has the will to do, and I knocked - and continued to knock at [this] its door. - What it might have done with these - not petitions but legitimate demands - is to this day problematical. Whoever, for some years was T.M of the Senate could [tell] give evidence that would open for him & some of his chiefs the doors of Atlanta. — as one of [the "Steering Com." trapped in the pillory at last wrote- I never saw the letters,] its leaders at last skewered to confession wrote did not receive the letters —- nor do I think it a fruitful subject of inquiry what became of the originals." [= Finally I [decided] accepted [with] the Dr's rule that "dead bodies are no test of drugs.-" [I with Emerson] & thought "if I could find a man & not a cockade in the(12 Still I Shook the tree with a resultant accumulation of strange & suggestive growths, Finally I accepted the Dr's rule that "dead bodies are no test of drugs". The flock of later missives have been directed to Senators who by Party Contact are moribund. I thought if I could "find a man and not a cockade in the chair13 chair something might be done." I estimated Mr. Tillman as a man & made a good many "tins" at his chair, & not discouraged by silence found his Hotel address and reached him there with a line of inquiry, to receive answer by return mail that he had never before heard from me, & desiring a full statement of what I had asked of him. - This, then, was sent to fall into a fresh abyss of silence. = What I desired was an investigation that would have inevitably resulted in the impeachment of Marcus Acheson -- Mr. Harison's appointee. While the Senate busied itself with the ill doings of a Federal Judge in Alaska concerning lands another in Va " coal 14 a third in Florida " money and even a faraway fourth anent Pacific Islanders. My endeavor [as I] was to induce it to enforce the 14th Amendment violated to extinction in the prism of a sane, sober, law abiding, untainted, unaccused white American woman. [= Certainly I tried to make plain, - that while a venal judge is a suitable object for stuffing, - but that a political judge who uses his Robe, [would] dropped from "the bosom of God" to cover the machinery of the Hill deserves to be sent to his own place, before death & silence claim him. = Judge Acheson has himself gone to face the Judge that no King nor Party can corrupt but his Valet - who in his masters absence sat to do his Justice B15 Certainly I tried to make plain that while a Judge who forfeited the confidence & respect of a decent community is an offence to remove, - a venal Judge is a suitable object for stuffing, a Political Judge who uses his Robe, dropped from "the bosom of God" to cover the machinery of Hill deserves to be sent to his own place, before death & silence claim him. = Judge A. has himself gone to face the Judge that no King nor Party can corrupt, but his valet, Justice Buffington, who in his master's absence sat to do his 16 master's will, probably stopped in the vestibule tho certainly his [actions] services defiled the temple of Justice, - I say "probably"?- but if that door to the letting in of light on dark places is not available in the State of Pa. - & [possible] the State Jus. -- And in the [& Bran-dog] U.S. Senate its representative who has been its "familiar" [Bran-dog] in this - Bris Penrose remain. = When my own lawyers, "held by the enemy"assured me in the kidnapping cases won in spite of them - that [I had no possible show against no path to] there was no method of holding the State to action, tho I disbelieved them I had not the power nor the means, to proceed to face the vindication in the US Con