
          The quere [query] to my mind 
is, if "Negroes are nothing 
but property", & "have no 
rights which a white man 
is bound to respect"
whether it is not about 
time to agitate the 
question how long they 
are to continue to cast
so large a vote!

Many of the articles 
from your Laboratory 
come in play even in
so short a chemical 
course as is now 
progressing & nearly completed 
here. I intend to plead 
hard in a week or two
        