arles Carroll did." I thought you might like to hear this.

WM. MITCHELL.

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WASHINGTON, D. C., _September 9, 1863_.

My Dear Miss Carroll:

I have read with great pleasure the manuscript left with me. Like
all that emanates from your pen, it is profound and able, and I
concur with you that its publication would now be timely. As you
requested, I forward the package to New York.

Very sincerely and respectfully your friend,

S. P. CHASE.

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The Hon. B. F. Wade (then President of the United States Senate)
writes from Washington:

_March 1, 1869._

Miss Carroll:

I cannot take leave of public life without expressing my deep
sense of your services to the country during the whole period of
our national troubles. Although the citizen of a State almost
unanimously disloyal and deeply sympathizing with secession,
especially the wealthy and aristocratic class of the people, to
which you belonged, yet, in the midst of such surroundings, you
emancipated your own slaves at a great sacrifice of personal
interest, and with your powerful pen defended the cause of the
Union and loyalty as ably and effectively as it ever has been
defended.

From my position on the Committee on the Conduct of the War I
know that some of the most successful expeditions of the war were
suggested by you, among which I might instance the expedition up
the Tennessee river.

The powerful support you gave Governor Hicks during the darkest
hour of your State history prompted him to take and maintain the
stand he did, and thereby saved your State from secession and
consequent ruin.

All these things, as well as your unremitted labors in the cause
of reconstruction, I doubt not are well known and remembered by
the members of Congress at that period. I also well know in what
high estimation your services were held by President Lincoln, and
I cannot leave this subject without sincerely hoping that the
Government may yet confer on you some token of acknowledgment for
all these services and sacrifices.

Very sincerely, your friend,