Said another honorable gentleman who thought he understood the character
of the book, "Mrs. Packard, I believe your book will yet be read in our
Legislative Halls and in Congress, as a specimen of the highest form of
law ever sent to our world, and coming millions will read your history,
and bless you as one who was afflicted for humanity's sake." It must be
acknowledged that this intelligent gentleman had some solid basis on which
he could defend this extravagant opinion, namely: that God does sometimes
employ "the weak things of the world to confound the mighty."
These expressions must all be received as mere human opinions, and nothing
more. The book must stand just where its own intrinsic merits place it. If
it is ever published, it, like all other mere human productions, will find
its own proper level, and no opinions can change its real intrinsic
character. The great question with me is, how can I soonest earn the
$2,500.00 necessary to print it with? Should I ever be so fortunate as to
gain that amount by the sale of this pamphlet, I should feel that my great
life-work was done, so that I might feel at full liberty to rest from my
labors. But until then, I cheerfully labor and toil to accomplish it.