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Pring would be gone. I can in no degree take your place. 1845.
Asa second I can fight; but there are incapacities shout me, Ar. 41.
of which I am fully conscious, which prevent my being more
than a second in such a work as we have laboured in. Do not
think I wish to add to your trouble by writing thus ; but I
BM most anxious that some delay should take place, and
therefore I urge that which I fully believe, thab the League’s
®Xistence depends mostly upon you, and that if the shock
Cannot be avoided, it should be given only after the
Weightiest consideration, and in such way as to produce
the least evil,
“Be assured that in all this disappointment you have
wy heartfelt sympathy. We have worked long snd hard
aud cordially together; and I cen say most truly that the
Wore T have known of you, the more have I had reason to
admire and esteem you, and now when a heavy clond seems
Upon us, I must not wholly give up the hope that we may yet
labour jn the good cause until all is gained for which we
have striven. You speak of the attempts which have been
made to raise the passion which led to the death of Abel,
2d to weaken us by destroying the confidence which was
Deedful to our successful co-operation. If such attempts
have been made, they have wholly failed. To help en the
cause, T am sure each of us would in any way have led or
followed ; we held our natural and just position, and hence
Our success. In myself I know nothing that at this
moment would rejoice me more, except the absence of these
difficulties, than that my retirement from the field could in
Bly way maintain you in the front rank. The victory is
Wow in reality gained, and our object will before very long
be accomplished ; but it is often as difficult to leave a
Victory as to gain it, and the sagacity of leaders cannot be
dispensed with while anything remains to be done. Be
Assured T shall think of little else but this distressing turn