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said that he refused to give the thing any support, and that he told that gentleman the evidence was insufficient in itself, and incredible.
I am not likely ever to forget the earnest manner in which Mr. Stevens then said to me: ‘Those men are no friends of mine.
They are public enemies; and I would treat the South as a conquered country and settle it politically upon the policy best suited for ourselves.
But I know these men, sir. They are gentlemen, and incapable of being assassins.’
Yours faithfully,
George Shea. No. 205 West Forty-sixth Street, New York, January 15, 1876.
