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286 You intimated that something more was to come out about Blaine. How is that?

I am having arrangements made for meetings in Ohio from October 6th to 10th inclusive. On the 11th I shall then speak once more at Chicago, and on the 13th I can be at Buffalo, speaking at a number of places along the New York Central road, to be at New York again on Sunday, October 19th. These meetings might now be arranged for. Other meetings in New York and those in Connecticut and New Jersey can be fixed upon afterwards. It will be time when I am in New York, from September 28th to October 4th.

But am I to remain the only Independent speaker in the field? Is there no one to take a part of the burden? We have plenty of able men in Boston and New York. They are needed here, for the State of Ohio is in doubt, and the October election may decide the whole campaign. Is nobody available? I must say that I begin to feel a little lonesome in this struggle. Where is Curtis? And where are the able speakers from Massachusetts? They ought all to be here, now or as soon as possible, before the October election. I cannot do it all alone.

P. S. There is a great demand for the German edition of my Brooklyn speech in this State. Send as many as you can raise. 



&emsp; As to the double-chamber system in our Constitutions, Federal and State, it may be said not to be a subject of discussion at all in this country. It is generally looked upon as a natural—I might say as a matter of course—part of our political arrangements, so much so, indeed, that a proposition to abolish it, even when coming from a respectable quarter, would scarcely find any serious