I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.
refers to General Grant, a war hero, who was given homes in Galena, Philadelphia, and Washington
Nay, Georias, I call him the bravest man, Who knows to suffer the most injuries With patience. All this swiftness of resentment Is proof of a little mind.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.