She wrote in the third person, coldly acknowledging the receipt of Mr.Jackson's letter, and saying that she had heard from her son of his interference to put a stop to one of those brutal scenes which brought discredit upon the Southern States, and that she considered he had most rightly punished Mr.Jackson, Jr., for his inhuman and revolting conduct; that she was perfectly aware the interference had been technically illegal, but that her son was fully prepared to defend his conduct if called upon to do so in the courts, and to pay any fine that might be inflicted for his suffering himself to be carried away by his righteous indignation.

She ended by saying that as Mr.Jackson was a stranger in Virginia, he was perhaps not aware that the public sentiment of that State was altogether opposed to such acts of brutality as that of which his son had been guilty.
"What have you been doing to that fellow Andrew Jackson ?" one of Vincent's friends, a young fellow two years older than himself, said to him a few days later.

"There were a lot of us talking over things yesterday, in Richmond, and he came up and joined in.

Something was said about Abolitionists, and he said that he should like to see every Abolitionist in the State strung up to a tree.

He is always pretty violent, as you know; but on the present occasion he went further than usual, and then went on to say that the worst and most dangerous Abolitionists were not Northern men, but Southerners, who were traitors to their State.