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d without bloodshed, I am, dear sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Robert Anderson, Major U. S. A. Expression of opinion in Philadelphia. At the Democratic Union meeting, held in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, the Hon. Wm. B. Reed, our late Minister to China, was one of the speakers. His remarks were eminently befitting the occasion, and replete with good counsel. We extract some paragraphs: Mr. Reed said he had come there to say a few words in behalf of peacMr. Reed said he had come there to say a few words in behalf of peace and conciliation. The resolutions presented breathed nothing but peace and conciliation. He did not want to talk even of concession. He had a great aversion to the words secession and concession. He came there to see if they could not promote some feeling of kindness which would bring back their Southern brethren.--He was in favor of conciliation, and if there was one sentiment prevalent here, it was a desire for conciliation, and an aversion to anything like civil war. The legislators at