Exempli Gratia
Ex tribus disce omnes.

Extract from Philip Dounnin's letter Richmond Va
"No steps have been taken yet I believe for the collection of money. Our receipts having heretofor been confined to the actual nightly expenses of the meetings, there is of course no funds in hands, and I fear that much difficulty will be experienced in the matter, as the association has been denounced in influential quarter and charged with having this object entirely in view. The association received a severe blow from Mr. Mitchell who, in his lecture here some time since pronounced secret associations of Irishmen unnecessary and improperly ridiculed signs and passwords and cautioned against any association of the kind requiring money."

Extract from Ea Unice Troy N.Y.
"Your suggestion to collect money from outsiders is capital but they would not entertain it. Their opposition is strengthened by Mr. Mitchell's advice which I suppose you have read. Mitchell has been my warm friend, it was my duty to introduce him to the Audience, and also entertain while here. It would ill become me now to urge the collection of money particularly when the Society is opposed to it, if therefore non-compliance with the advice of the Directory be insubordination. I hope you will [?] who has paid you his dollar?

Extract from [?] McManus Buffalo N.Y.
"Your official communication, duly received should have been

long since answered, were it not that doubt & indecision
became too manifest in our body owing to the action of
the law, authorities - and the proceedings at Cincinnati.
Added to this was the strong recommendation of John
Mitchell in his recent lecture here to avoid an
infringement of the law which he was but too
sure the course of sworn societies now in existence
involved."
I could send more this enough.
Mr. G.