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of Mobile. He goes with us on the Rep. platform and thinks the true course for the rebs to pursue is to come to us and not expect us to go down to their miserable depths. Encourage this sort of thing – it will be good in its way.
Let the League be the main spring in the Coming Convention for if you do not you will have trouble from the ignorance of many.
How I do wish I lived here just for a year or two! But I say candidly that any hope of Alabama lies with one or two whom I met in Montgomery. Bring some influence to bear on Griffin. He is shaky on the General. It must not be so.
Yours Thomas W. Conway

[[left margin]] Addressed 3 or 4000 people night before last Had a glorious time. Write me if you want me at Montgomery [[/left margin]]