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so much as they are, in all matters of world-progress, constitutionally afraid. I have not seen the platform on which they were nominated, but I would wager a cigar that it is principally made up of protests and asseverations and balderdash about time-honored principles and less remarks with never a live word or thought which can be construed to mean a noble shapement of the To-Be. Well, well, let them protest, asseverate, and make their solemn appeals. God lives in his heavens - Humanity is all right - Wherefore let us three rejoice. I sit in the shade of a tree writing this, and all around me the bullets from the enemy's pickets cleave the air with sharp noises. Now I should like to rest - to rest - for I am not well. God bless you. Richard Realf.