Peterboro, Dec. 19 1861, , George W. Searle Esq. , , My dear Sir, , , I am happy to get your letter & to have the opportunity of reading in the Boston Post your very happy commendation of our friend Spooner's Book on Currency. Your two last sentences are emphatically true. Spooner may well be called "the [...] of the principles of natural justice". He always rises grandly above conventional law to real law. , , I will send this copy of the Post to F. Douglass - your letter also, & one from myself asking him to assist with his [...]., , Your friend, , , Gerrit Smith