After that experience made at the Republican Legislature of Ohio, in which we could not find assistance for the circulation of our message of Peace, and for holding our monthly theological course, I remained in Ohio, till I heard Governor Chase in a campaign for candidate Fremont assert with great boldness, that he knew Fremont.  I did not know Fremont at that time.  But after having studied as much as was required to know him, I pitied Governor Chase and other Republicans very much, that they either by ignorance of matters or by preferring private interest to the common welfare, should have ruined the country and destroyed an enormous amount of human life and property, so that the Kansas affairs alone cost more than fifty millions of dollars.  All the evils would have been avoided, if Hon. Giddings and his co-operators who have been most urgently invited to attend the above mentioned Convention which was held in their vicinity in the year 1851, had not despised our invitation.  But at that time matters had not arrived to that maturity in which they are now.  And we write and mention some champions and leaders of parties, that they themselves and by their instrumentality many others might be awakened from their lethargy and attend at length our monthly theological course the appointment of which they will find at the end of this book, and learn that which is most needed for the support of the true Republican, or what is the same, true Christian against the monarchial cause.

I have sent to speaker Banks a copy of the pamphlet, from the last page of which I have quoted above some passages, on which page there is the admirable correspondence of the governor and the legislature of Ohio with his election for speaker.  But I think, that other trifling business did hinder Mr. Banks’ comprehending wonders and signs contained in that pamphlet, and that he did not study it so deep as to comprehend the correspondence of the contents of the last page of said pamphlet with his election for speaker on the same day on which I wrote that page.  In this book is no room to explain the language by numbers; but we may generally observe, that the election took place under the spell of the Papel Imperial Royal spirits; and it was said, that it did not happen, till a Roman catholic priest came into the House of Representatives and performed his prayer.  Whether that report was true or not, is is not my business to investigate; but it is true, that the spell was taken away, when I in my application to the governor and the legislature of Ohio wrote on the last page of the above quoted pamphlet:  “You are requested to cast so many copies of this pamphlet in the Cabinet and Congress of Washington, and also into the legislature of each State, as are required to kindle a great light everywhere.”  Reference is made to the “Candle-mass,” as the feast of the 2d February is called.  It is Mary’s purification and Christ’s presentation in the temple; and that our reference to the casting