did not despise. If Stanley's Galphin speech on defaulters of the democratic party be published pamphlet form, I will thank you for a copy. Not that it will have any political effect. If the democrats cannot answer a charge triumphantly, they wisely say nothing about it. Their plan is to keep their

MG0115_F002_In03_It03 Lancaster July 29 1854 Dear Sir I should be glad to accept your invitation—But I fear to promise, as my time is so constantly occupied by professional engagements as to leave me no time for other things—the lecture you refer to, I fear would not answer men with [trimming?], as

MG0115_F002_In04_It01 Lancaster Septr. 22, 1855 Dear Sir In answer to your letter of yesterday I have to say that I know Peter Martin to be a fine Antislavery man, and as much opposed to the Kansas outrage; and as much in favor of the restoration of the Missouri Compromise as any man in the Union

MG0115_F002_In04_It02 [This item consists of a letter in Stevens’s and a copy in another hand.] [in Stevens’s hand] Octr. 24, 1857 Dear Sir As your case was not likely to be reached, being the 26. on the list we have continued it by consent until the Nov. Court— [Yours] Thaddeus Stevens Judge