11/29 The usual signs--airy, easy-going references to grand distances and foreign places. 'Well GOOD-by, old fellow--if I don't run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.'" The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: "The fact that a band of 6,000 Indians are now murdering our frontiersmen at their impudent leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people think the Indians are in New Jersey." This is a new and peculiar argument against keeping our army down to a ridiculous figure in the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. |