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of their Commission I will enquire
for all parties as well as I can —
I could however push more with
a will our own cart.

But we shall see what we
shall see. Hope to visit you in
NYork as well as Dr Parker.

Will you tell Rev Broughton
to put into the next box a quantity
of our Anti Slavery tracts. The
chaplains are enquiring for them, &
I have promised a supply. This
subject is now agitating men
here as it never did before.
Every body is getting Anti Slavery
Southern sort of men especially.
Many take the ground of immediate
[illegible] Emancipation — These defeats
are working more rapidly up to
that point. — Do we not thus see the
hand of God in them. Send on the
tracts for they are wanted.

Yrs truly
J. W. Alvord