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heartless mean-souled brutes that get in positions subordinate but where they can show themselves, and their damned airs and pomposity – they think nothing of treating a man like the worst slave-owner is supposed to treat his niggers – Meanwhile the great officers of the government have every minute occupied with pressing business, and these wretches have full swing. It seems impossible that there could be in the Free States such tyrants, as many you see hereabout – this d'Almeida is a very modest man, a real French gentleman, poor, and quite distinguished as a traveler and man of science – and is a Professor in the Academy of France. He takes or appears to take his misfortunes very goodnaturedly – yet It must have cut pretty deep on some accounts, he suffered every humiliation. Well, dearest mother, how does it go at home? I hope you are none of you going to move – I hope it is arranged that you shall stay – there would be something dissatisfactory whenever you should go. I was real glad to hear Jeff had abandoned the idea of building, this spring – to attempt it without money is winding oneself round and round in the devil's own net. I saw Frederick Ellison here yesterday – he is a young man that used to be in Hughes's store there above Cumberland street – he is in the 9th N. Y. Militia – has just come from Brooklyn, where he has been on a furlough – |
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