(FAVORS CHASE FOR PRESIDENT)
"NEW YORK, _June 21, 1868_.
"MY DEAR SIR,--I am more impressed even than when I saw you as to the
necessity of you seeing Mr. Chase, as I have just seen some influential
Democrats, one of them practically representing a State, who tell me
that they are for Chase first, last, and all the time, because:
"1. They believe he can win.
"2. Because it is a necessity for them, by their political action this
fall, to show that there is no practical barrier between the races, and
that this can be done in no way so well as by Chase's nomination. They
are in earnest, and will not yield their convictions lightly.
"If he will answer for Carolina on the negro question, I do not know
but we could take him.
"Y'rs,
"S. L. M. BARLOW."
"_Friday._"