The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-12-02
WASHINGTON, March IL, 1852
"JoHN TAYLOR

NASHlNG TON, March II, lS52.
"JoHy TAYLvR.-
s'Go ahead. The heart of the Winter i. broker,
and before the first day of April all your land be
rlow cd Blu, the oXen Of Captain Marston, If you
t.iak the price fair. Pay for the hay. | send you
check for SlG0, for these objects Put the great
oxen in a condition to he tdt,enod You have good
hols team, and think IN addition to this, four oxen
and pair ot tour yearohi steers VIII do Your work.
Ii think SO, thea dispose OF the Stevens oxen,
invoke thcm and send them t. the pasture tos beet.
| | know not when shall you, but hope before
planting. Ii You need any thing, such guano, for
instance, write 10 joseph Buck, Esq, Boston, and lac
VII, send II YOU.
! Nv hatever groand you plant, that it is
in good condition. We want no ptnayro gal cro7S.-
A little farm well tliei,' is farmer the NJ
thing to "a little wife well wilied." Cultivate YOUR
garden. BE to produce sufficient quantities of
vegetables. man may half support his family from
a good garden Take to keep my mothers gar
den in good order, if il should cost you the
yes Of to take Of it. ! have sent you
man, garden seeds. Distribute them among Your
n,ighbors. Send them to the stores in the village,
that everybody may have Part Of them without cost
glad thai YOU have chosen MIR. Pike representa-
tive. lie is man; but there are in New HaInp-
shire many persons who call themselves Wings, who
are no hiys all. and better than disunion>ts.
Any VINO he>iatcs in granting and securing to
every part OF the county It's just and It's constitutions
al rights, is enemy TO the whole country.
''John 1ay lor, if Of your boys should say that
he hono,s ms father and mother, and loves has broth
and sisters, but still insists that OF them shall
be driven Of the family, what you say OF him
tut this, that there is family love IN him. / Gu
aud are farmers we talk politics, talk is
OF oxen; but remember tn>: that any man " ho
empts excite part OF the country against the
other, jIlst wicked as he would lN who should
attempt get up a quarrel between John Taylor and
his negabor, old MIR. Jno. Sanborn, his other
neighbor, Captain Bureigh. There some ami
maib that live best in the fire; and there some
who delight III heat, smoke, combustion aad
even general c',n.ag They do not tC!low the
things which MAKE for peace They ENJOY only con-
uoversy, contention and strIe. Have communion
with such persons, her neighbors politicians.
lou have right say that slavery ought not
to exist in Virginia, than Vrginan has say that
slavery ought to exist III New Hampshire. This is
question left every State decide for ITSELF and
if we mean to keep the States together, must leave
to every State this power Of deciding for itself.
81 thiak never wrote YOU a word before upon
politics. ] shall not do it again. l only say love
your country, and your whole country; and when men
laws OF other States tell them that you to mind
John Ta,lor. YOU are a free man; YOU possess good
PRINCIPLES; you have large family and pro.
vide for by YOUR labor. Be thankful to the Goyern-
roent which does not oppress YOU, which docs moi
bear YOU down with excessive taxation, but which
holds TO YOU and to yours the hope Of all the bless
inss which liberty, industry and security may give
! John Taylor, thank God morning and evening, that
YOU born in such coustry John Taylor, new