p.

[fort?], and blood will cease to flow - I think a
negro is just good enough to fight this [fresh?] &
I know he is good enough to stop a bullet, but
no, there must be just so much fiddling about the
constitution as it was, & the constitution as it is, & should
be, but they had better throw the constitution to the
Devil, and go in on this [musele?}, with every available
means, and fight this thing out, and settle it up,
and then we can go to work and make a constitution
that will suit us all, but do the fighting first

Wednesday Evening Jan 14^th

I began this letter last night thinking to write
you a short familiar letter, for yourself alone
but I wandered off very quick on a subject I
had no thoughts of writing about, and I stoped
very sudden, - tonight I feel in a different
mood, although in not a very communicative
one, - I have been suffering from a very severe
head ache to day, and I am in not a very
pleasant state of mind, and to make it still
worse, it commenced raining about noon
and tonight it rains for good, just as hard as
it can pour down, but still if we have
nothing to call us out we are not very uncomfortable,
for our tent sheds rain and we
have a stone and plenty of wood to keep us
warm, but it sounds lonesome and dreary,
much more so than what it would be if we were
at home under a good shelter, - I think I shall