Is there not an objection to Emigrant Society’s sending slips about Texas. It would at once expose the object, which I think it very desirable to conceal.

I would have a note addressed to the editors (& any others) from some well-known gentlemen in whom they would have confidence as Republican leaders, saying in effect, “It is deemed desirable for the Republican cause that the facts (& ideas) given in these pages, should have general currency. You will do a good thing if you will, from time to time, as you may find it convenient, insert portions of them among the selected matter of your paper.”

In the beginning and until some respectable nuclei are established, it is best no distinct organization for Texas should exist, or if it is necessary it should be secret & those who are recruited should only know of it as a commercial business.

What I want now is to influence a few hundred New Englanders to go thither voluntarily, convinced that their reports would soon draw all necessary additional immigration. The first thing is to counter-act the opinion that the region is doomed to be subject to all the evils of a slave holding country (which I say it can not be). 2d, to let it be known that it is attractive, wholesome & profitable for free-labor.

Yours faithfully