I do not take them literally.

But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA., Mch 10th, 1903 SENATOR GEORGE F.HOAR, Washington, D.C.
_Dear Sir:_ I would like very much to have a copy of your address lately made before the Union League of Chicago.

I see notices of the speech in the newspapers.
Also your address made before the New England Society some three years ago, if you have a copy.
Your picture, sent to me at my request, hangs in my room.
It is the face and form of a great American statesman.

One whom our people have learned to admire and love.
Our people venerate your years, still in vigorous life and in full possession of great faculties of mind and heart.
We look to you and other great Northern men to keep us in our sectional and racial questions.

In one way these questions mean so little to the sections of the country not immediately interested in them, but they mean so much to the Southern people who have to deal with them as live, every day matters.
I left the Attorney-General's office in this State on February 28th, ult., after fourteen years service and two years yet to run.