We have had much company during the last month; but we hear nothing of Carlisle and Riggs. How rejoiced we shall always be to see you!
My own health continues good. Miss Lane desires to be most kindly remembered to you.
From your friend, very respectfully,
James Buchanan.
P.S.—Would it not be well to send the carriage to New York for sale?
[MR. BUCHANAN TO DR. BLAKE.]
Wheatland, near Lancaster, August 15, 1862.
My Dear Sir:—
I was much gratified to learn from yours of the 9th instant the favorable opinions entertained of my administration by Messrs. Saulsbury and Washington. Such opinions begin to be a little more common than they were a year ago, and they will be still more common in another year......
We are all alive here with recruiting, and many, very many of our best young men are entering the service. The present is believed to be the crisis of the war, and for this reason they come forward to do their duty.