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carry out the wishes of all parties.
To be any thing, this movement
must be, as to educational pro-
vision, every thing. Its very amplitude
will be its chiefest claim to the
confidence & support of the public.
{Illegible struckthrough} As a highly intelligent Methodist
editor said to me in regard to it,
"the fact that people give grudgingly
"to lesser or local enterprises, is no
"proof at all they will be guarded by
"that rule in such an enterprise as this."
As to how the proposal is
likely to take with the public
generally, you will see from
the notices taken of it by the
New Orleans Secular press. These
papers, copies of whose issues I have
caused to be sent you, represent
all opinions in politics & religion.
They are the exponents of public
sentiment, & to a man take
favorable notice of the movement
commanding it & sanctioning it
as {insert symbol}meeting a necessity. This they have
done of their own free will &