17" 1877.
Your appeal to me for assistance in the matter of Your Court trial, touches me deeply,, and I wish it were in my power to give you my presence as well as sympathy- and so further if I might the cause As Written: caus of justice But my wife is now passing from us, and I may not have her even for a night. hardly for a day dutifully-
Under these circumstances I trust you will excuse me from giving further attention to your affairs. at present. If you are wronged, those who have been dishonest, though they may contrive to get the decree of Courts in their favor, will ultimately suffer the penalties of their misdeeds, and you will be justified, not only in your own, heart, but before the law also.