Raleigh No.Ca.

May 4^th 1867

My Dear Sir,

Yours of May 1^st is to hand.  I have recieved the pamphlet on no reason and have been interested and edified by it.

I do not know the post office of soon A.J. Brown of Misstow, Thos. L Helingman’s post office is Asherville, N.C. ( I think). The Hon. Ren[?] Buffier[?] you allude to died during the war. 

Yours very respectfully,

K. Raynor

Lysander Spooner Esq.

Boston Mass

Cincinnati   17 Jan 1869

Lysander Spooner Esq.

Thank you for your kind expressions; and I am proud of your approval.  Whether the thing could make progress or not I cannot say.  The newspapers here, of both parties ignore it altogether; and being out of the business, I have no sway to punish them or give it a start.

I have not yet received the pamphlets; but, I suppose from your sending them though they came to me without wrapper or mark, I came in possession of copies of No. 1 & 2 probably about the time of their publication.  I read them with great pleasure, stole a little from them, and have taken pains to keep them by me ever since.          

I leave here for St. Louis tomorrow probably to fix myself there with the Republicans. 

Yours very truly,

Henry Reed

Mount Vernon Knox to Ohio

July 9, 1851

My dear Sir,

I want to get the names & P.O. address of those members of your Legislatures who voted for Hon. Chas. Lumner[?] for the U.S. Senate.  We are trying to do something here in the Anti-Slavery movement and should like to confer with them.  Many of them perhaps would be willing to contribute something in the way of subscription to a paper here devoted to that cause here. 

I have thought of no way in which I would be so sure to get their names and P.O. addresses as by writing to you.  It is not likely that you can give me the names of all who voted for him; but the most of them you doubtless can.  If you will send them immediately, I shall feel greatly obliged.

Very recently, I have had the pleasure of perusing your argument against the Constitutionality of slavery.  I was much pleased with it, and do now feel well satisfied that if the same stringent application of legal rules & technicalities were sanctioned by our Judiciary in reference to slavery that is allowed in other matters, that not a single slave could be legally held in our country.  I have never taken this view of the subject till I found it presented in your work.

If you have any commands in this section of Ohio, I shall be glad to obey them.

Please let me hear from you soon.

Very respectfully yours,

John A. Reed

Lysander Spooner Esq.