Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-21

FARMERS CABIN, Dec. 10, 1860.


Ma. EpIroR:-Permit us boys TO tsou-
bio you aud tho public with short let
ter, TO apologies for very foohsh one
that appeared in tho last Democrat,
written by pap. Now pap never wrote
that letter. Ii happened in this way:
lilo did 20 10 town on the day mention
cd. and, as no occasionally takes drink
with friend, ho got treated by man
who told him oiion before the election
that II Old Abe was elected there would
be hard times, and a. soon as he got a
little high he was taken to where the
chief dealer in ,cool keeps his office, (or
where the Office keeps him. aud madc
to sign his name TO that mess Of non
sense. go
Pap knows better than 10 be acting
tho greeny around town, rs there repre-
scntcd. ON Thanksgiving day, though
your town chaps will persist in holding
out tho idea that because we live In tho
country we do not know how TO behave.
All not 30. The very mau who wrvtc
that letter camo TO our house last fall,
and told us boys and pap the greatest
mess about Old Abe being ala abolition
list, and that be approved Of the John
Brown invasion in Virginia, and all such
stuff, until Jim and mo, who had read
the papers, and had read tho debates OF
Douglas and Lincoln, could not stand II
any longer, wo just turned Republicans;
butt was always Democrat, and he
said he would stick to Il ia hopes better
times would como. Well, dinner came,
and this town chap, | gucss, thought
our dinner was pretty rough; but no
thought that ho would say something
TO please mother, so says he, IL rlways
like to go TO the country to cat; l like
rough victuals SO very we'll" Now if
me. or jim, or pap should say such a
thing at a town table, wo would be tho't
grccner than pap was on Thanksgiving
day.
Pap not only knows how to behave,
but ho also knows that Old Abe has
nothing to do with the color Of chicken
meat, nor tho price Of pork in this
county nor any where else. These town
fellows need not think that just because
pap did vote tho democratic ticket that
ho is so cusscd foolish rs they make out,
nor need they think that because he
drives oxen that he is one of the team.
Now US boys agree, (and pap says go iD,
that II any ono Of your town clique will
como out hero and convince our old
Buck Eve won't risk 1t on Berry,; that
Old Abe has tho control of officers now,
then old Buck is his, and wo think the
old fool will be just &c 10 go to town 10
nc n drawer Of water for your town
folks.
NO SIT, wc read TINT this gvvcrnnunt
is brought 10 debt by tho democratic
administration, and now there is no way
to get through this winter without is.
suing Treasury notes, which will bring
US more and more III debt, and we soc
that tho democrats have all these things
In their own hands, and wc look upon
this effort 10 make us folks in the coun.
try believe that il is Old Abe doing all
this az foolish, and insulting what Of
intelligence We have.
Why, sir, We had company tho other
day and killed como chickens; one OF
them was poor us our national treasury,
and as blue rs loader Of the Democra.
cy. The rest wcro all fat. Little sis
asked mothct il Old Abe didn't make
that chicken blue. "why, no." says
mother, "this is ono that the leading
ones has been making drink he" Itho't
that would do pretty well.
Now, sir, rap is little mad 1T the
use they arc making of BIN, and says
that no wants TO be Democrat the rest
Of his days, but wants us boys to do us
we please. But hc says that tho clique
can't make him believe that Old Abe Is
so smart as to control our affairs three
or four motnhs before he has anything
to do with it. And he says that the aid
and comfort that the leaders are now
giving to tho kick up in tho South is
nothing more, in bis bonightcd mind,
than treason.
But wc must quit writing, and us
boys go to school. | wish pap could go
to school and learn TO read and write.
Yours, &C.,
jim AND BILL HIdnLASpER.
III g. Senator-Hon Will Cum hack