I saw Duggan last night; he has not yet written, and I told him he need not, on Wallace, for us.

Do you feel like giving us a very comprehensive and thorough built article for September on the State of our politics? If so, go ahead. We have had nothing you know in the Monthly on the recent developments of the Kansas question; so if you please make that the back-bone. We shall be prepared and willing to lose a thousand Southern subscribers if the article commands the attention and respect most of your articles have. So with all possible justice, charity and courteous tone to the feeling of the South, say just what you think about it.

If you think September is not quite the best time for us to come out with this, postpone it till October or later and give us anything else you please [357] for September. Recent, Filibustering and what is to be looked for, might serve for a short article. I incline to think however that September will be as good a time as any for us to deliver our fire at the “Conventions” cowards.