LEGATION IT. K.. Of; OTA, N.O,j
V!av IT ISf.l. 5
Mr Noble and vtry Dmak Khtend :
In consequent e ‘ f the continuance of the
horrihle civil war which still continue" to
be waged in ilii-* distracted anti divitleti Re
pub! c. and the interruption of all mail com
munication from tho United State* and
elsewhere, I did not receive your kind and
highly prized letter of the 20th of J unary
last, until the 18lh nib, i nd tiieU at Honda,
to which place 1 repanvd myself expressly
for the purpose of receiving my dispatches,
letter 0 , newspaper*, «sec., which 1 had heard
were thure. It took me three days travel
ling over almost impasvtbh* mountain* to
pet to Honda, but i was well repaid for
oy trouble, aa 1 received some 2fl letters
from my wife and children, besides some
70 others from my Governmnit and *>ld
Irieiels. with smie 200 newspapers, all < f
which have afforded me both pleasure mid
hoarded pain to read.
1 did not coi»k neioss tli* valedictory
speeches of younGf, dear Clay, Mallory
aud Yu lee, until yt»teidnr. i devoured
them all with greedy appetite, but net j
without the shedding < f terns, dear friend, j
when i reasi lhe farewell of yourself, es- |
penally as so pathetically expressed in your
last sjit.-«ch in rhe Senate, us well us in that I
of lhe lUth of January, when yu>u so beau- 1
tifully depicted to y--ur leihov S nntOfs and
the world the rituation of the country amt
the dangers which were threatening it.
