"_Feb. 3, 1872._
"MY DEAR SIR,--G. wrote me a note last night, stating that from
haste, etc., he omitted many things, especially facts relative to the
transaction of 1869.
"He is doubtless growing fidgety and impatient in consequence of his
privacy and solitude and the delay.
"I wrote him a reassuring letter, and suggested quiet on his part until
the close of the Jumel trial. I promised then to take up the business
and put things on a definite footing.
"Once that trial is over I shall be free; and if great and controlling
reasons do not oppose, I will proceed at once to deal with the
questions and the _persons_ of the hour as public necessity shall, in
my judgment, seem to demand.
"Fidelity to a cause once espoused is the first law of my nature.
This alone has tied me to these troublesome and engrossing Jumel law
suits. They will be over when the corrupt gang of villains engaged in
the present enterprise shall have got their _quietus_. This can hardly
fail to happen within a fortnight; and thenceforth no private person's
affairs shall prevent the entire devotion of all my time and power to
the good cause in which you have so faithfully toiled and of which you
have been the most efficient as well as the foremost champion.
"I am, Dear Sir,
"Yours truly,
"CH. O'CONOR."