I shall travel over the whole Territory, make speeches, rouse the people in favor of my plan, and see all the delegates.

But your cordial support is indispensable, and I never would have come here, unless assured by you of the cordial cooeperation of all the Federal officers....

The extremists are trying your nerves and mine, but what can they say when the convention submits the constitution to the people and the vote is given by them?
But we must have a slave-State out of the south-western Indian Territory, and then a calm will follow; Cuba be acquired with the acquiescence of the North; and your Administration, having in reality settled the slavery question, be regarded in all time to come as a re-signing and re-sealing of the constitution....

I shall be pleased soon to hear from you.

Cuba! Cuba! (and Porto Rico, if possible) should be the countersign of your Administration, and it will close in a blaze of glory."[6] The Governor had reason to be proud of the full and complete reendorsement which this appeal brought from his chief.