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Dear Spooner, I only rec’d yours of the 10th
incl. in losing Heldreth, notice of your essay. The latter I have published,
& I enclose a copy of the publication. I have not yet got through with the Essay.
The truth is, it is a great work for Mr G, any anything of yours. I need at
least a week to read this Essay. Of course, I marvel at Hildreth’s facility of
execution in much work. He read it at a night’s sitting. The names of all the ____ of the
True Democrat were omitted in the paper’s ___ soon after I entered the concern,
in imitation of the English fashion, though without consulting myself. The names
which paper at the mast of the Local Department are chosen of a couple of ways,
on of them Horace Mann’s dined with us the other day.
He delivered three lectures, one on “Young Men”, & one on “Women”. The last
two reminded me of the infinite circumspection Mann ____ to exhibit about
Slavery & other matters. He gave with one hand, & he took away with the
other. He asked me if he was “to _____.” I told him I could only say, that, if
such was to be his fate, he should not, with my consent, an “incumbered
between ___ thieves,” as happened to be a better man. B B I gave him a
column of as moderate return as I could write. I found him not at
all ____ Sumner’s reform to trump the State. He thought Sumner might have timed
the election. I have not yet brought to a close my
connection with the True Democrat. But I am awaiting only the arrival of center
papers from the East., & the compliance of my parties will when they have
promised. What not the Lord only known. I don’t tell out of attempting
anything here in the paper line; for that would not do until I ___ have got a
settlement. Y_____ sends her ___ to your. Our dear
nanny was at Warhampton at the last account, having gone thither with a newly
married ____. Geo. Bradburn |