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Finally, "put up for a bid the famous Right Divine, Transmitted, for unnumbered years, though every regal line; Who bids? Who bids? You in the blouse? I thank you, sir, a sous; Tis going, going, going, gone! The right, sir, is with you. Think of that? What think you of French National Assembly? Will they finally succeed in Elaborating any thing worth while or only make confusion worse confounded? Have they any wise & better men than the Girondists? or are there more of them? You doubt the Excellence of Greely & his Tribune. No question, no American paper can be so well relied on for foreign news; full, complete, exact, correct; always depinded upon. Or for Greely himself, if you can find a better Editor in America, you must go farther than I have ever gon, by considerable: Only one thing I do not like the man will go for Henry Clay for President. You hardly did me justice on "Patriarchy & Primogeniture" that you talked of. If I had an hour or two on that head, I'd use you for it. Mother has concluded to send her letter to Milo, as I have written to your folks. I saw her last Eve June 15, Well only she has a bad cold, like every one else in Northfield who waked up at the fire then night, except a few of us who got well soaked in water, the sovereign presentation & remedy of Colds. Yours Aff. I.S. June? 1848