NAWSA   GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE   Wattles, John D.

[?]
Dear Brother,
I carried the 
"Request" until I was satisfied 
that any body would sign it.
And so I concluded to just
say so, everybody in Tippecanoe,
Nassau, & Montgomery 
Counties next year & Lucy
& whoever else you may think
proper to ask, to come & hold a
series of anti-slavery oratories
in the nearest rally
next September --
Frederick Douglass & Mrs.
Rose have been mentioned.
but it is the best to take it
to you & Lucy to request such
others as you think but-
Beginning at Lafayette
& [?] when the NY opens--
Things are in a mighty "fire"
just now - The thunder of the 
approaching earthquake are
rolling along.  Now is the time
to tell them the truth--

John O. Wattles
1854

All Farmers Institute &
all the Garden Institute
All [?] & the print 
of [?] Institute, are
a the "August" in that cry
[?]. but a sickly politician
an [?] [touib?]. But
they said they held [?] to 
[?] 1 & [?]
Collection, taken at the 
conventions, the contributions of friends
& the sets of books &c, will
"ply" in a [?]-o-cratic point of 
view-The test when the 
final accounts can settled
As ever yr 
[?] & [?]
John Wattles

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