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[[top left sticker]] 176 [[/top left]] Springfield, July 14th, 1879, Rev. Franklin Johnson, D.D. My Dear Brother: This will introduce to you Mr. T. H. Tibbles of Omaha, who will tell you better than I can the object of his mission to the East. At a public meeting, held last evening in the First Congregational Church, at which Bishop Huntington of N. York presided, Mr. Tibbles spoke of the wrongs of the Ponca Indians, + of the present movement to redress them by legal measures, with immense effect. He has [[end page]]