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Reposition to send Memorial to Congress Providence 11 Mo. 4th 1843 My beloved friend Richard Mott Thy favour of the 28th ult. with a proposed essay of a Memorial to Congress has been received and laid before the Committee of our Meetg. for Sufferings in conjunction with the Com. of our Yearly Meetg. on the concern for the Indians located west of the Mississippi. I am directed by them to inform your Committee that, after a time of careful and solid deliberation on the subject, way does not open with us to adopt the essay as extended and charged by you. That which we forwareded to you was prepared by the Com. of our Meetg. for Sufferings together with the Committee on Indian concerns, among whom were our friends John D. Lang and Samuel Taylor jr, and the practical points were stated in such a manner and extended as far as they believed accorded with the facts that had come to their knowledge and which in the guarded manner in which they were set forth they felt prepared and willing to endeavour to substantiate before Congress should their friends desire them to visit Washington and present the Memorial; as it was intimated to them would probably be the case. Under these circumstances, and with a desire that we may be favored to unite in a document to be laid before the General Government, if you are not easy to adopt the essay we have prepared, (which with a few verbal alteration we now again forward to you) we would respectfully propose a conference on the Committees of the two Meetings for Sufferings and in order that this may be effectual our Committee made no report to our Meeting which met today--but, to give us time to act in unison with you the Meeting adjourned to meet again in this place on third day the fifth of next month. Please to give us early information of the course you would propose should now be pursued in the case. Affectionately thy assured friend Samuel Boyd Tobey