I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.