Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-08-15

Letter from Abe Lincoln.
Old Abe Writes us Letter and Sends us G.
Stick.
We received, per U. s. Express Co on Sat-
urday, one Of the sticks old Abe split and
the following letter. 1t appears Abe
thought we were the editor Of a Re-
publican paper, and gives us some advice
as TO how we should proceed, requesting
US to play the thing mighty fine. = seneca
AdvcrtiSer.
Springfield Ill June 6 go.
w W Armstrong. r....
Sir-I send you this day by U. s. ExA
press Kurnpney ope ofthem Rallies which
have been pokin up such rore threwout
all OF these grato States minus % what
don't vote our ticket, You kin or this
being the ':ail article, as it were split by
my individual sells sum 40 years since when
where flatboating down the wabash river
for this ockashun. want to 90 in ahd
git up tremenjus excitement over this
yer id stick as 1t am the only plank in
our black Republican platform that takes
at all and we must bile our egs while the
water is hot or we are goners sure as
preachin. .
Horgonise yer wid.a-walze & wigwam
clubs rite away & send down to Kerlum-
bus Folit Fostre and Ko for dockmen:s.
/ am in snooks with Follit Fostre and Ko.
and divide the spies or profets on the
dociments. ...
Them er speaches that's published. as
mine were all writ by old Joe Slocum that
was sent to the penitentiary sum time
since for hoss stealth but were pardoned
out by our republican Guv9rn0r for my
benefit. How do they take down in ole
Seneca Co. Skarter um round among the,
lignurent farmers and mekaniclls prolused-
i ly. Let me kno il shall send YOU any
more rales as we are over run with orders
from abrod. | am sorry 10 say have bin
sum what horn swaggled in this rail biz.
MIA ID poor cuss down in oberln sent
on tn me for l6 dozen wich forwarded
TO him and paid the charges myself s no
writ me had nary red. | hey bin since.
Informed that the ole kuss cut EN- all up,
fore fire would Il wonte need any more
would Tor right smart time to cum.
| think am not mistaken in yore bein
editure of the Tiffin trebune am say. 1t
won't do 10 let this yer thing git out as
the devil would be to pay ifit did, and we
must play this yer thing mighty FIRE.
want you to go in heavy on the idee
that the first syllible my last name and
the last sillible of my last name and first
and last sillible of both my names max es
Abe Linkum' Its a mighty good joke
and there are big lot Of superstitious and
ignurent labering men in the Kuntry that
will think it happened because we were
| forordained to be elected don't yer see.-
20 in big on all these things cause the
Lord knows there's nothing elce to go in
on send me kopy of your very valuable
paper one & a while now and then when.
| git elected won't let you out in the
kold
klose now ana in the words of the inn
mortal big dutch poet say "Bulley fog
u.s.
Frum yore old friend.
The County Sp litter. ABE LINCOLN.
PENNSYLVANIA CITIBs.-The census re-.
turns of Pittsburg and its suburbs, it is esti-
mated, will foot up 10000. In the year
1850 the same territory had SS,3l2. Pitts
burg proper has fifty.tive thousand; the
population on the south side of the river.
including South and West Pittsburg, Bir-
mngham, East Birmingham, Monongahe-
la. and Temperanceville, will reach eigh-
teen thousand. Allegheny City thirty-ive
thousand, and the rest is in the unincor.
porated suburbs and adjacent townships.
We have now most of the leading Penn.
sylvania cities and towns, as below:
Philadelphia 650,000 Pittsbure 10000
Reading $4,000 Lancaster $4,000
Harrisburg 1862 NorristoYn l3,500
Scranton $4,000 Pottsvile 1900
York 10000 Easton 10000
LIBERTY AND UNIoN.-"When my eyeE
shall be turned to behold for the last time
the glorious sun in Heaven, may net
see it shining on the broken and dshon,,
ored fragments Of a once glorious Union
ON States discovered, dscordant, beIlig--
erent-on land rent with civil feuds, or,
drenc ned it may be, in fraternal blood.
Let their last feetle and lingering glance.
rather behold the glorious ensign ofthe
Republic, now known and honored thro'--
out the world, still full high advanced, nos
a single star erased, nor stripe polluted,
bearing for its motto no such miserable
interrogatory as What is all this worth
nor those other words Of deluson and fol-
ly Liberty first and Union afterwards :
but everywhere, spread it all over in char
acters of living light that other sentiment
dear to every American heart, Liberty
and Union, now and forever, one and ins
seperable. ~ Daniel Webster
FREDERICK P. STANTON This gentle~
man, late Secretary of Governor Walker
in Kansas, during the Lecompton troub-
les, has come out fiatfooted for LINCOLN
and HANLIN. Ho addressed Black Be-
publican meeting at st Louis on the ODD
ult. Like other apostates from the party
he claims that he has been Democrat alb
his life, and that he has not changed
now