isis, but I trust and believe the
time will come when all will know the debt they owe you.

With great respect, your friend and obedient servant,

THOS. H. HICKS.

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BALTIMORE, _Oct. 2, 1861_.

Miss Carroll:

If you could let me have more of your last pamphlet in answer to
Breckenridge, I could use them with great effect. I have
distributed from my house on Camden street all the committee
could furnish me. I set my son at the door with paper and pencil,
and five hundred men called for it in one day. These are the bone
and sinew of the city, wanting to know which army to enter.
Please send as many as you can spare. They go like hot cakes.

Yours very respectfully,

JAMES TILGHMAN.

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A. S. Diven, in the House of Representatives, January 22, 1862:

"She signs herself Anna Ella Carroll. I commend her answer on the
doctrine of the war power to those who have been following that
phantom and misleading the people, and I recommend it to another
individual, a friend of mine, who gave a most learned
disquisition on the writ of _habeas corpus_ and against the power
of the President to imprison men. He will find that answered. I
am not surprised at this. The French Revolution discovered great
political minds in some of the French women, and I am happy to
see a like development in our women."

Judge Diven subsequently addressed the following letter to Miss
Carroll:

WASHINGTON, _February 9, 1862_.

I thank you for the note of the 6th. Your pamphlet I have read
with satisfaction, as I had your former publication. I have no
desire to appear complimentary, but cannot forbear the expression
of my admiration of your writings. There is a cogency in your
argument that I have seldom met with. Such maturity of judicial
learning with so comprehensive and concise a style of
communication surprises me. Ladies have certainly seldom evinced
ability as jurists--it may be because the profession was not
their sphere--but you have satisfied me that at least one might
have been a distinguished lawyer. Go on, madam, in aiding the
cause to which you have dev