I am quite
proud of his editorials; they are well studied, earnest, and
dignified. I think he will make a first-rate writer. Both our pieces
have gone to press to-day, with Charles's article on music, and we
have had not a little diversion about our _family newspaper_.
"I thought, when I was writing last night, that I was, like a good
wife, defending one of your principles in your absence, and wanted you
to see how manfully I talked about it. Henry has also taken up and
examined the question of the Seminole Indians, and done it very
nobly."
Again:--
"The excitement about Birney continues to increase. The keeper of the
Franklin Hotel was assailed by a document subscribed to by many of his
boarders demanding that Birney should be turned out of doors. He chose
to negative the demand, and twelve of his boarders immediately left,
Dr. F. among the number. A meeting has been convoked by means of a
handbill, in which some of the most respectable men of the city are
invited by name to come together and consider the question whether
they will allow Mr. Birney to continue his paper in the city. Mr.
Greene says that, to his utter surprise, many of the most respectable
and influential citizens gave out that they should go.
"He was one of the number they invited, but he told those who came to
him that he would have nothing to do with disorderly public meetings
or mobs in any shape, and that he was entirely opposed to the whole
thing.
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