May 18, 2016

Dear Mr. Adams:

I have had the pleasure of receiving your letter and report. If my brethren see fit to honor me with a command, it would be my humble duty to serve. Across Washington City, I have identified a sufficient number of men capable of soldiering, with a quantity of rations and spirits enough to endanger habits of intemperance. Many of these men are heretofore experienced in the art of warfare, and many still possess a quantity of weaponry enough to fill the walls of an armory.

If your efforts of sober diplomacy thus prove inadequate in resolving our current state of affairs, we will be prepared in due time to extract justice through military force.

I concur that Mr. Goodell is indeed evidence of the cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men that arise from faction, and likely a harbinger of greater battles yet to be fully waged. Beware of the shadows from whence their influences derive. Beware too of presumptions regarding the use of a latrine. I imagine Mr. McNally urinated and moved his bowels only upon the timings of our Creator, and in these quarters I attest that our Creator can bestow great evidence of his omnipotence.

As I await further instructions, may the father of all mercies scatter light and not darkness in our path as I am,

Your humble and obedient servant,

Go. Washington