Y'rs rec'd—Thank you for kind help to me word & deed. I am totally paralyzed, f'm the old Secession wartime overstrain—only my brain volition & right arm power left. This great bulk of seventy varied millions of people, call'd America, is now having a good season of intestinal agitation. Of course sometimes the bad elements (so call'd) get momentary rule. But it is all right I am sure—and the long run will prove it (namely Democracy) right.
Walt Whitman