Sidney will say: 'Ah! you see the Hare is obliged to ride on the Tortoise in order to get to the goal!' But I shall say: 'Yes, but the Tortoise could not get there unless the Hare spurred him up and guided him.'" Both of these brothers achieved success, but, unfortunately for the moral of the old fable, the hare quite outdistanced the tortoise, without, however, kindling any spark of jealousy in that faithful heart.
While Sidney was still in Europe his brother writes to him on December 29, 1857:-- "I don't know what you must think of me for not having written to you since my return.

It has not been for want of will but truly from the impossibility of withdrawing myself from an unprecedented pressure of more important duties, on which to _write_ so that you could form any clear idea of them would be impossible.

These duties arise from the state of my affairs thrown into confusion by the conduct of parties intent on controlling all my property.

But, I am happy to state, my affairs are in a way of adjustment through the active exertions of my faithful agent and friend, Mr.Kendall, so far as his declining strength permits....

I wish you were near me so that we could exchange views on many subjects, particularly on the one which so largely occupies public attention everywhere.