gh the Red Sea and the wilderness. We shall be holding
conventions by that time on the banks of the Jordan with Eve,
Sarah, Rebecca, Huldah, Deborah, Miriam, Ruth, Naomi, Sheba,
Esther, Vashti, Mary, Elizabeth, Priscilla and Phebe, Tryphena
and Tryphosa, and all the strong-minded women honorably mentioned
in sacred history. Do you not know, Theodore, that we have vowed
never to go disfranchised into the Kingdom of Heaven? In the
meantime, we propose to discuss sanitary and sumptuary laws,
finance, and free trade, religion and railroads, education and
elections with such worthies as yourself in the councils of the
American republic. Twenty years! Why, every white male in the
nation will be tied to an apron-string by that time, while all
the poets and philosophers will be writing essays on "The Sphere
of Man"!

We found the good men and women of Galena filled with faith in
the new President. They say he is a sober, honest, true man; that
he will entirely revolutionize affairs at Washington, send the
old political hacks to their homes, drive bribery and corruption
from high places, and draw a new order of statesmen about him.
May the good angels guide and strengthen him, for unless
something is soon done to rouse the slumbering virtue of the
American people, our sun will set in darkness to rise no more.
Feeling the deepest interest in the past, the present, and the
future of Ulysses, we asked a thousand questions concerning him.
Among other things, we proposed to go to the tannery where he
used to work, but found that was a myth. We peeped into some of
the stores where, in his leisure hours, he used to smoke the pipe
of peace, and fancied that in walking up and down the streets our
feet might be treading in his footsteps. What a fascination there
is in the material surroundings of great souls, and in contact
with the people who have seen and loved them! But, alas, how
little of the inner life, that is most interesting to hear about,
mortals ever reveal to one another.

On the way from Galena to Toledo we met Frederick Douglass,
dressed in a cap and a great circular cape of wolf-skins. He
really presented a most formidable and ferocious aspect. I
thought perhaps he intended to illustrate "William the Silent" in
his northern dress, as well a