& that they would pay all defendants costs, [...] the publisher to [...] three thousand dollars to divide my Counsel � They did all promptly & handsomely. To you have gone $2,300 - to Sedgwick & his partners $700. & I pd. [sic] a young lawyer in N. York (Mr. Dodge) $10 for making inquiries which Mr. Sedgwick requested him to make. , , "Alas, well that and well." , , I hope for great good from [...] Elections. We count but 16 Abolition votes in this little town. , , Yr. [sic] friend, , , Gerrit Smith