Excerpt from Letters of Carl Schurz, B. Gratz Brown, James S. Rollins, G. G. Vest, Et Al;, Missourians, From the Private Papers and Correspondence of Senator James Rood Doolittle of Wisconsin I Should have preferred to see these matters settled before the primary meetings take place, so as to prevent the packing of the Convention, which always will have a bad moral effect. But there seems to be no way to do it. I tell you all this not in order to induce you to do this or that but merely in order to explain to you my motives and prevent misapprehensions from springing up between us. We may have to work side by side very often and it is better that we sould understand each other. It is hardly necessary to add, that if the Convention should come to conclusions different from the views I have taken, I would, perhaps not without some regret, give up a place which promised to produce brilliant results, but I shall, without personal feeling, most cheerfully accept their decision and faithfully work for the success of our principles, however gloomy the prospects may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.