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I hope to have the pleasure of meeting with you, next week, at the Syracuse Convention.-- It seems to me that it has been called very opportunely; and I. therefore, anticipate much good to result from its assembling. A very few such demonstrations as the late Kansas outrages, will most certainly prompt Northern men to invoke the protection of the Federal Constitution in behalf of their own liberties and when they are once alled upon to [illegible] digilently into its provisions in view of the aggressions of the slave power, it will not be long before they discover that those provisions [illegible] justly and legally construed, are as equally efficacious for the security of the rights on black as of of white Americans. It will, indeed, be a great pleasure to meet with the Hon. Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, William Goodell, and other nobe champions of the right, whoever labored to direct the political power of the nation into such changes as will [illegible] securing the blessings of liberty to every man, woman and child within the [illegible] on the Union.

"Is there a North?" [Illegible] in view of the conduct of the Northern delegates in the recent Know Nothing conclave, there [illegible] to be a pretty decided one. The [illegible] current shows a plentiful supply of [illegible] in the market. The ossification of the [illegible] column, this side of Mason and Dixon's line has certainly increased in a wonderful [illegible] and it is, indeed, very [illegible] to [illegible] the the only vertebra which continues to exhibit a cartilagious texture is the one representing our own State. But that is [illegible]; and the people who have [illegible] numbered Gerrit Smith among their [illegible], and who have been chosen [illegible], will yet set the masses [illegible] that their instincts, like those of their [illegible] im Massachusetts and other [illegible] like her, are true to freedom.

Truly yours, &c.

GBV

MCGRAWVILLE, June 22, 1855