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224 govern my course accordingly. I know a good many who will do likewise.

I write you this, not for publication, but confidentially, so that we may understand one another. I shall always be sincerely glad to hear from you. Can you send a good delegation to Cincinnati? Spare no effort. 



&emsp; The Belknap case has changed the whole aspect of things. I agree with you that the Adams idea will naturally come into the foreground again. I would be well satisfied with Bristow,—as my second choice, but as such an exceedingly satisfactory one. I deem it quite possible, however, that Bristow may not turn out sufficient for the situation, especially if he sticks to the party. But I would advise you—and especially you—to go on talking Bristow.

I am meditating a sort of pronunciamento to come out one of these days, in which I mean to declare that I shall not support any candidate who does not come up to the Bristow standard, and that the people owe it to themselves to take the matter out of the hands of the old parties etc.

What do you think of it? Let me hear from you and send me the Republican sometimes.

&emsp; I have tried to gather myself up and do something. The enclosed is a draft of an invitation to a conference