Rev. Wm. A. McGinley, Dear Sir : — Feeling the importance of a proper adjustment of our present National difficulties, and believing that the Discourse delivered by you in the afternoon of last Sabbath, will tend to produce a healthful atmosphere, and the dissemination and growth of those principles, which, if carried out, will prove essential to the peace and prosperity of this Republic, we respectfully solicit a copy of the same, for publication and general distribution. Yours, &c. THOMAS W. WARD, LEANDER EALES, LUCIUS S. ALLEN, HENRY E. WARREN, THOMAS RICE, C. 0. GREEN, JOSEPH HASTINGS. Shrewsbury, February 24, 1862. Shrewsbury, March 10, 1862. Gentlemen : I thank you for the kind expression of your favorable opinion of the Discourse referred to. Relying upon your judgment, I herewith place the Discourse at your disposal, fearing it will not, yet hoping it may, promote, so far as our townsmen are concerned, the desirable objects to which you refer. With high regard, Your obedient servant, w. a. McGinley. Thomas W. Ward, Esq., Lucius S. Allen, Esq., and others.
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