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nd I think there is no doubt of it, if the large towns do as well as the small ones are doing, and promise to do. I beg of you, Mr. Mayor, to exert all your influence to have Lowell furnish its quota. The demand is urgent and imperative. The President and Cabinet are all anxious that Massachusetts should lead in this, the second campaign of the war, as she did in the first. Should Lowell furnish its quota, and other towns should fail, to Lowell will be the honor. To J. R. Comstock, Blackstone,— Make such arrangements for getting your quota as may to you seem best. We want the men; and as soon as your forty-two are recruited, or any portion of them, notify me, or Colonel Lincoln, in command of Camp Wool, who will furnish transportation. Any person you will name to assist you recruit I will appoint, and give him papers. Do hurry on the men: we want them sadly. To N. S. Kimball, Haverhill,— The towns that raise their quotas will be exempt from any draft, under t