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ing and alarm would have brought the government and the 

 friends of freedom to realize that palliatives would never 

 effect a cure, and that the malignant cancer must be extir- 

 pated. If we had been uniformly successful, and that early, 

 there might have been a truce, but there would have been 

 no permanent peace, and no security 



TO MISS LINDSLEY. 



NEW HAVEN, July 13, 1864. 



WE of our family circle have been not a little 



interested in your account of the fidelity and devotion of 

 your domestic servants. This tells well as to your treat- 

 ment of them, and it shows that they are not without good 

 sense to perceive that they have a happy home. When 

 those who wish to retain colored servants will treat them 

 with justice and kindness, paying them reasonable com- 

 pensation, forbidding the lash, the branding iron, and the 

 bull-dog chase, they may hope for good and attached ser- 

 vants. To all this there will doubtless be exceptions. We 

 understand from good and trustworthy authority, (I have my 

 information from personal friends personally conversant 

 with the facts,) that the negro laborers on the newly organ- 

 ized plantations on the lower Mississippi, being treated as 

 I have described, are entirely faithful and obedient, and 

 among the most industrious and faithful of laborers 



TO MISS LINDSLEY. 



NEW HA VEX, September 29, 1864. 



I CONGRATULATE you upon the splendid success 



of General Sherman, justly regarded as of the highest im- 

 portance to the Union cause. We trust he will hold 

 Atlanta and sustain his communications with you ; and as 

 Sheridan and Farragut have nearly finished their local war- 

 fare, we trust that Grant will be permitted to bring up that 

 triumphant finale, which with God's blessing shall save our 

 cause, which is the cause of God and of mankind 



