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Rh shall not be able to go home on Sunday. A delegation came to me in Pittsburg to assure me that my appearance in Erie might make a difference of five hundred votes, which might decide the result of the October election. Should that be true, and I should not go, and the October election should be lost by a small majority—how I should reproach myself! So I have decided to go. 



&emsp; I received your letter only a few minutes before I left Milwaukee, and my appointments were then already made. I should like to go to Green Bay, but I calculated that in filling an appointment there I would lose two valuable days, which I might make very good use of. The appointments I fixed upon are the following:

The remaining three days I shall speak in Milwaukee county in the afternoon and at different places in the city in the evening. I find that Potter's district is by no means as safe as is generally supposed, and it will require considerable labor to give him as large a majority as he ought to have. Besides, we will do our best to carry