after nine o'clock. I am not seeing any one just yet
on the matter to which you refer, but, of course, will see _you_.
You have my grateful thanks for the great and patriotic services
you have rendered and are still rendering to the country in this
crisis.

I have the honor to be your friend and servant,

S. P. CHASE.[10]

[Footnote 10: Salmon P. Chase was U. S. Senator,
Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury, and
Chief Judge of the Supreme Court.]

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WASHINGTON CITY, _April 15, 1862_.

My Dear Lady:

I thank you for sending me the last number of your able essays in
the New York _Times_. The President paid you a very handsome
compliment in the Cabinet meeting yesterday, in reference to your
usefulness to the country. He handed your views on colonization
and the proper point to initiate the colony, which he said he had
requested of you, to Secretary Smith, and said you had given him
a better insight into the whole question than any one beside, and
you had, on his inquiry, suggested the Interior Department as
proper to look after the matter, and advised the Secretary to get
into communication with you. This was no more than your desert,
but, coming from the President in Cabinet meeting, it was as
gratifying to me to hear as it is now to communicate this to you.

With great regard, your obedient servant,

EDWARD BATES.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, _May 13, 1862_.

Miss Carroll:

I send a package by your servant which came here yesterday, I
suppose, as I had the honor to frank some of your documents from
here. If you will excuse my poor writing I will tell you what
Mr. Lincoln said about you last night.

I was there with some seven or eight members of Congress and
others, when a note and box came from you with products from
Central America. He seemed much delighted and read your letter
out to us and showed the contents of the box. He said, "This Anna
Ella Carroll is the head of the Carroll race. When the history of
this war is written she will stand a good bit taller than ever
old Ch