You will have observed that my humble name is signed to a call for such a convention at that time and place, together with Chancellor Walworth's and others of like distinction.

Providence favoring, it is my purpose to participate in the deliberations of that meeting and I see no sufficient reason for another convention having the same object in view." Possibly if Mr.Gary and "others of like distinction" had been refused permission to speak a word or even to serve on a committee, they might have been able to see "sufficient reason for another convention." Horace Greeley sent the following: I may not be able to write you a long letter, as you request, but I will give you a little confidential advice.

All I know on temperance (pretty nearly) I put into a tract which was long ago printed at the Organ office....

Now, as to tracts: Make it your first rule to Be Thorough.

Most of our temperance tracts are too short and flimsy and not calculated to convince reasoning beings.
Let each tract take up some one aspect of the question and exhaust it, none of your fly-away five or six pages but from twelve to thirty-two, the whole case presented in all its aspects and proved up.