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but stand ready to receive
and accept any & every
proposition from their
leaders that savored[?]
of justice & right--but
the [?] could not honorably
and should not accept
any proposition that
[?] ignored Stanton &
Anthony--the association
of which they were officers,
on the Revolution of which
they were Editors & [?]
In heavens name I
hope you have not given
any other answers if
they call for a truce
meeting, [I cannot read the last two lines]

it is proposed

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for the 6th of April---when
neither you nor I can possibly
be in New York. I have
written Theodore--there is
but one true way--that is for
the seceders & neutrals to come
individually or collectively into the
national's annual meeting, &
then & there speak & note as to