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(Letter to Bishop Elliott from Bishop Polk January 31st, 1857)
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New Orleans, Jany. 31st, 1857.

My dear Elliott:

You have by this time I presume received
the quota of the address of the Bishops. Hooker desired so,e
one of the committee to become responsible for the Bill. I
engaged he should be paid and he has sent it to me. The amount
due by each of the nine is 14.89 (fourteen dolls eighty nine
cts.) which you may remit me at your convenience and I will
forward to him.

I am desirous to know the feeling among
your people as to the movement and they have had time to reflect
upon it. How do you find them thinking & speaking? And what do
you hear as to the feeling about it among your neighbors in
So. Ca. & Florida? We have been agitating in this quarter through
the press and so far we find he interest in the matter deepening
and widening in the most satisfactory way. The truth is, if this
matter is to be carried that must be done which carries every
other matter, and without which nothing can be carried, to wit,
there must be work done in its behalf. The parties converned in
its success, must put their shoulders to the wheel and shove it
forward with sturdy vigour, and that without hesitation or pausing.
Never was there such and open door for any church as there is
for ours in those two states at the present moment in the direction
of which we are speaking. Of this the public is itself satisfied.
The Southern States are resolves to look out fot themselves hence-
forth, and in nothing more than in the education of their chil-
dren. This is certainly a foregone determination. This determi-
nation has created a demand for edcational facilities and facili-