New-York City, 49 wall
Street,}
December 26, 1859.}
My Dear Sir: I
have long been of the opinion that the question of slavery in our territories
is not treated in our leading Republican journals in a way best calculated to
produce an effect on the masses — particularly the laboring masses — in the
free States. I send you an article which I have prepared expressive in some
degree of my views on this subject, but I have in my mind other ideas which it
seems to me should be developed and kept incessantly before the Northern mind;
but being deeply engaged in my profession, I can only talk them over, and shall
be happy to do so if you will call at my office.
Faithfully yours,
Truman Smith.
Hon. Pike.
P. S. — The manuscript inclosed is entirely at your
disposal; it will not mortify me in the least if you stick it into the fire.
SOURCE: James Shepherd Pike, First Blows of the
Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States from 1850
to 1860, p. 454-5
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