Writes about Captain Wilson, noting that he was an honest man who became involved in dishonest dealings regarding expenditures, etc. Cites his attempts to organize Wilson's ill-managed accounts "in the interest of those who have in good faith trusted Uncle Sam through him." Discusses the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, mentioning Charles Sumner, an impeachment advocate. "I have not doubted a conviction, law or no law, evidence or no evidence and Mr Sumners [proposal?] just received here, to limit the 'findings' to the facts set forth , and not to pronounce on the charge 'high crimes and misdemeanors' - but to direct the Chief justice to pronounce the verdict of 'guilty' on the facts proven seems to place it beyond a doubt that the whole matter has been 'cut and dried.'" Wonders if he should press Senate president Benjamin Wade for an investiagtion of charges made by Ulysses S. Grant and Lorenzo Thomas. Discusses the possibility of being dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico. Signs at the top of page one as "H.J.H."