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                            Philade May 20th
                                    1861

My dear Turner,

                 I have yours 

of today with the letter of Mr. [Dunphy?] inclosed in it which I had prev- iously seen & which I herewith return to you.

               I regret that I cannot
                                concur

an opinion with yourself & Mr [Dunphy?]

                I have been in the

habit of considering the [?] & [?] to every [person?]of the country, & have often said & probably to our friends [Whelen & Dye?] that in view of this [?] its diso- lution seemed to me impossible I so thought because I would (page 2) would have been willing whereas Mr. [?] [?] to have given up every thing [?] [?] [?] the sections sooner than the union, & it appear- ed to me therefore too great a [?] -[?] to be lost for want of a proper spirit of compromise. But this is a different matter from endeavoring to [?] it by a fratricidal war full of horror devastating to the south or [?] to the north. I am [?] to say that I recoil from such a war & that I can scarcely realize the the possiblity of a [?] at the end of such a contest [?] to me now about to be inaugurated.

         Very Truly Yours,
                 M R

Capt Turner