oted your talent; your country needs
the labor of all her defenders. If the time will ever come when
men will break away from passion and return to reason your labors
will be appreciated; unless that time soon arrives, alas for this
Republic; I have almost despaired of the wisdom of men. God's
ways are mysterious, and my trust in Him is left me as a ground
of hope.

I have the honor to be, madam, your obedient servant,

A. S. DIVEN.[6]

[Footnote 6: A. S. Diven was Member of Congress
from New York, a railroad man, and, I think, is
still living.]

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BALTIMORE, _May 9, 1874_.

Miss Carroll:

After the Presidential election in 1860 a Union Association was
formed in Baltimore and I was elected chairman, which position I
held until the Union party was formed in Maryland in 1861, when
Brantz Mayer was made chairman and I was appointed treasurer, and
held the position until 1863. We commenced at once to circulate
your publications and sent them broadcast over the entire State.

When we appealed to you, you furnished them most liberally, and
to our surprise and the relief of our treasury you informed us
you made no charge.

All were disposed to give your articles a careful perusal, and
many instances came to my knowledge of the great positive good
they effected in keeping men within the Union party when the
first blow of secession had been struck.

FRED. FICKEY, JR.

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_May 15, 1862._

I have never read an abler or more conclusive paper than your
war-power document in all my reading. * * *

RICHARD S. COXE.[7]

[Footnote 7: Richard S. Coxe was a very eminent
lawyer from the District of Columbia.]

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WASHINGTON, _May 22, 1862_.

I most cheerfully indorse the papers respecting your publications
under the authority of the War Department. Mr. Richard S. Coxe, I
can say, is one of the ablest lawyers in this District or in the
country. In his opinion of your writ