If you can so arrange it, it will be greatly to your advantage to make a speech here.2 Trumbull will have a tall crowd to-morrow and Douglas an immense gathering on the 6^th September.3 In this District which is composed of Morgan & Scott, two members are to be elected, and we are inclined to look for success of the Republican candidates.4 The most untiring efforts will have to be used however until the day of election, and it is always in our calculation that we will have your own telling contribution to the work. In looking over your list of appointments for yourself and with Douglas

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we cannot see that you will have any earlier unengaged time than in the interval between Sept[September] 18 and Oct[October] 7.5 If in this interval, you can afford to come here, I have no hesitation in assuring you in behalf of all your friends here that you can better ^make^ such use of your time and talents as will probably count more in the result than even all the ardent and earnest efforts We will assuredly continue to put forth.6

We are not so unreasonable as to wish to intrude upon your wiser determinations or interfere with your better arrangements. We wish you to know however that we think we need you here and that if possible you must make an appointment

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to come. We are more concerned for your success, than we ever were before for a political triumph and must be excused for pressing upon your consideration what ^may^ seems to be a suggestion for our own benefit, but it is nothing more nor less than a deep and sincere conviction, that we are in danger here, and are more likely to be saved through your own than through our own demonstrations.

With true and unalterable friendship,