The “Kansas” is excellent—puts the main issue plainly, strongly and straightforwardly. We are all well satisfied & ready to stand by it.

I have suggested a couple of verbal exchanges. If I was to criticize it, I should say that the distinction between the “greater part of the slaveholders” (observe the #) and the propagandists and fire-eaters was hardly sufficiently presented or sustained. Could not some expression of respect for the character of the better & more conservative class of Southerners be introduced with good effect—& some expression of regret that they do not exercise more influence—or cannot—in politics. Men like your Savannah friend.

Two Southerners that I have seen within a few days tell me that they believe most educated men at the South desire that there should be no further [364] extension of slave territory—that Kansas should be a free state—are afraid of the propagandists & would be glad to rebuke them.

Such men are, I suppose, most of our subscribers at the South & we should encourage them to speak out—though we know they dare not.

A distinct denial of any desire or purpose to interfere with Slavery in the states should be appended to or in some way introduced in the last paragraph.

Yours Truly