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Rh movement. I trust that the revolution which has begun will neither go back nor stop. Let those who want to serve the cause of free government throw themselves resolutely into the waves with the courageous confidence that the genius of the American Republic will lead to a happy issue. 



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My dear Sir: I wish I could say with what an agony of emotion I subscribe myself &emsp; Hon. ,

St. Louis, Mo. 



&emsp; My dear White: I have received your letter of the 10th inst. That you should have felt the sting of defeat keenly, I understand very well. Whatever there was of disappointment and mortification for me in this great failure, I fully anticipated six months ago after the Cincinnati Convention. You remember well with what purposes we went into that gathering. They had the respect and sympathy of the best men of the nation. We were defeated in our best aspirations. The result could not have been more unfortunate. Those who brought about that result proved the worst enemies of the reform movement and of Mr. Greeley too. I esteem him highly