Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1846-11-11

              Halifax, England, Nov. 17. 1846
Friend Taylor,
I thank you for your prompt
though brief communication. I have just read
it after a ride of 160 miles - but an [?] remain for
the [Armenian? raid?]  I want to have you in fuller
free communication with me on this important 
subject. I am moving the ball here with some
effect. I make it a prominant subject in all
the meetings I hold in public or private.
The Andislavery Committee meet on the 24th,
and I am on my way to London to lay before
them a large plan of operations. Hope to go
to France + the Continent in Feb. Shall move
the matter there. The system must be append
-ed to the compass of Christiendom. Do not
publish anything yet, it may embarras us
and limit our operations. I am very earnest
in this - let the associaation be well [?]
before much extra stir is made. YOu say
slaveholders are un willing to assist you in
collecting free cotton in their neighborhood. This
in an important fact. Be wise as serpents as 
well as nameless as doves; if they knew 
that an association embracing half of Christiandom
was forming for the sole consumption of free
grown products, the bearded [?] would
[?] with a vengeance. I beg you make
no unnecessary parad of any auspicious
circumstanse just now, wait until
everything is ready. Now, a word -- cannot 
you send a good, brave, discreet, sweet,
spirited man through the South, this
winder, beginning with January? who shall
pass through the Carolinas, Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana + Mississippi, and
stir up the nonslaveholders to the product
of Cotton rice + sugar? I cannot
promise, but I think that $500 might
be raised here to help deploy his expenses.
He must be zealous, affable, honest, wise