i would also like to read to you one of the passages from efraim cutler wrote to his wife sally. and with the legislature in massachusetts late december and christmas is about to happen and he wants to be home. and is still trying to get the legislation through. and wrote about the thickheaded mortals of politics. i just attended from the slumber in the adjoining rooms. the difficulty to make thickheaded mortals is sometimes vexing but then yet to contend there is nowhere to be found of the legislature with the specious and looks that calculate to entrap in those bloodsuckers can you see how things have changed? he was fed up and truly tired and those before me. but with the new england background and he succeeded. [applause] >> now this particular story there are several questions i want to ask but with youngdu graduates and also the warriors who were being paid in whiskey with the rough-and-tumble and these ideals at the same time with the representation on the front tier those who have come from the battlefield what we have to remember is how hard people had to work and with a