...as soon as Lincoln’s declaration of emancipation of the blacks was proclaimed! 
Now that happened in Jefferson’s time and no state has put up fewer troops than 
Massachusetts and none has put up more falsehood and deceit. Substitution of poor 
southern Negroes and Europeans living under all sorts of abuse and then forced 
into the Army to take the place of Yankees ( purchased not by the leaders as was 
the case in the war of Independence, but rather by agents dealing in human flesh)- 
well , you must have read about all of this in different newspaper articles, at least I 
hope so. 
In spite of all the great principles trumpeted it is a horrible war of suppression 
and there can hardly be any objection against the reuniting of hostile brothers after 
four such years of devastating war and putting an end to the raw violence so often 
seen in the hinterlands among the people- but even with our awareness of the 
existence of these things one has to be careful if one does nof want to end up 
fighting for one side or the other. I will send you my George ifthe age of conscription 
is lowered from 20 to 18! 
Hopefully there will not be money or troops enough to continue the war much 
longer. The debts are officially listed at 2 billion dollars but when all is paid 4 billion is 
more likely. The taxes for the governments( city and state included) are about 8% of 
all income over $600- this does not include the high interest rates on money needed 
for other things. 
It pleases me , too , that Walpers does not include any Allotropa and puts 
them among the monocotyledons. 
Please look carefully at an authentic Pinus rotunda to see if it really is the 
same as the pyreneean Pinus uncinata! I do not have complete specimens. With 
complete I mean a Pinus specimen displaying young and old leaves(=yearly 
sheath), young fruits as well as last years and male flowers( these are isolated on 
separate branches.... 
[These appear to be fragments of two separate letters: we have not found 
any other parts. SGE] 
TT1 
u 1 BEE 
BEEBEEBE - 
BEBEEBEE 
EEREBEEE: 
BESERERE j ] 
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BOTANICAL 
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