"I presume you mean the lady reputed to have been connected with President Taylor's commission, of inquiry into affairs in Hungary--" "Yes,--the 'most beautiful woman in Washington to-day.' So she is called by some--'the most dangerous,' by others." "Has Kentucky forgotten its gallantry so fully as that?
Rumor has reported the young woman to me as a charming young widow, of beauty, wealth and breeding." "Yes, manners, and convictions, and courage--abolitionist tendencies and fighting proclivities.

She is a firebrand--a revolutionist, fresh back from the Old World, and armed with weapons of whose use we old fogies are utterly ignorant.

Having apparently nothing to lose whose loss she dreads, she is careless of all consequences.

You, my dear Sir, speak of your moral adherence to some new party.

You consider yourself one of the lamented Free Soil party, and hope a resurrection.