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Racine Feb 9th 1850. Brother Samuel What do you think of the prospective annexation of Canada, is it likely to be any benefit to our already unwieldy country? Will not the advantages arising from having more northern and non-slave-holding States be more than balanced by this addition of a mass of people ignorant, degraded, many of them Catholics, yet admitted to the full rights of citizenship? Do you take the National Era or does Joseph? Are you a whig, Clayite or Barnburner? What is your opinion respecting the late F[?] struggle, of [?], also of those brave ladies who are the 'lions' of the day in New York? What do you think of the present attitude and probable destiny of Turkey? Have you seen Lynch's expedition to the Dead Sea? Do you not think it well worth reading, not only for the beauty of its style, its lively and copious descriptions of the many objects of interest on his route, the charming national scenery of that region around the Mediterranean, with which are connected such interesting associations, sacred as well as historical, - the theatre