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                                                                                                                        Rochdale
                                                                                                                        Mar 21, 64.

Dear Sir, Your letter of the 10th Feby has reached me, conveying to me a copy of the resolution passed by the Denver Council of the Union League. May I ask you to convey my warm thanks to the Gentleman who, "from under the shadow of the Rocky mountains" have expressed their satisfaction as the course I have taken in connexion with your great struggle for freedom & national integrity, From the first I have regarded your great conflict as one in which all living men, & all