have swept almost the whole Republican party with us. But the President fighting us (and fighting against himself too), we have to work; for we not only want to carry the State, but to carry it heavily.
So you may thank Grant for it if I have no time to devote to the outside world. Oh, there is much wisdom in high places!
I send you a copy of our address and wish you would read it.
FROM B. GRATZ BROWN
St. Louis, Nov. 26, 1870.
Private.
My dear General: Mr. Preetorius showed me a letter
to-day in which, after expressing some dissatisfaction with
my “Serenade Speech,” you intimated a desire that I would
make another, addressed more especially to our Republican
friends, in order to strengthen your position at Washington.
This I will do most cheerfully, or anything else in my power
to place you in your proper strength and attitude before
the Senate. You, of course, can realize the reasons that drew
forth those remarks, can understand and appreciate their
full significance; but I should be very sorry to have you think
that I would desire in any manner to embarrass you in the
premises. So far from that, I, more perhaps than any one
else, realize that in this great victory in Missouri you were
the true hero, and that for our success we were more indebted
to your prudence, sagacity and indomitable canvass than to
all other causes combined. You led the way with skill and
rare tact. And now if I can do anything to help you in the
mortal duel you have in the Senate, I shall be only too glad
to fulfil your wish.
Our victory was that of the right, of true Republican principles [and] of nothing else, and if we in achieving it elevated the Democracy to our own platform and standpoint of equal
