Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-06-14
Letter from Obadiah Prinyle.

| To My DEaa BrorHEa CHARLEY RIvEs-Ercry
thing in our party Is ia awful snarl Jest now.
am powerful fraid Old Abe Linkin. by runnin 8
agn US. viii smash US all up! cause on. masheen-
cry is in kind Of a reck any way. I've bin dom
all for our party could. I sent the little Judge
up to Grover tothcr day to the Convenshin. with a
supply Of forty-rod, to get all the republicans
drunk. But it scanned like it didn't do no good;
he couldn't succcdc in gitten none on en- drunk
but hissclf. So, late in the cvenin, when seed
that he the only that got buckeycd, and all
the capital was agin us 4 in fivur Of our enemies,
it made me so ever astin mad, that went around
back of Smiths grocery, & crawed with my head
and shoulders away under the house, 4 laid thare
& bawled and bawled till hca got in my mouth.
I'm nifty sorry that Doc Jones was nominated. /
had never took no pains to rase lies on Jones'
fully expected they'd nominate Beatty, or Over
man, or Griffith, somc other Teller that I'd bin
reportin for months past was "abolishiners." l
kin git up that report yt on Jones if its the best
thing that we kin raise. But I'm afraid it won't
do no good, for it don't scme to skare nobody, no
how, now days. What say you my sweet smellin
Charleyl l must have your advice-caus you *
me and the New York Day book is thee crate in
stitushuns. But still. must confess in all kinanes
to you, tn It sometimes you aut very good man
ager. That speech you m ,de in Plymouth after
you cum home from the south wasn't prudent at
the time. Ifyou would take my advice more you'd
appear heap m,rtcr than you do.-ths is strictly
private; e. if MasDgly gifts holt o: it, h0'l blow it
to tho moon-he has exposed every trick Of the
dimocra,s that he has found out. You ought not
to made that speech till after the election this fall
Its too soon for us to pronounce squatter sover-
eighty a"humbug." Its too soon for us to declare
that slavery goes with the American q rs to every
tcritoryits too soon for US to prove by the bible
you did. that slavery is divine institution. OF
course, we know these things just as we'll as our
dimocrat brothers in the south knows them. Blu,
then what's the use Of telin the truth about our
principle. when well maIc up lie will do US more
cood1 I'd like to know that. Now, dear Char
ley, this is all said for your good, Cause l loves
you. The milk Of human kindness looms up in
my bowels of compassion for you, jest like it used
to. when was lcctle bit of boy, for our old
muly COW that was Instrumental in raisin nearly
III VI uauaN -~oN SSC htAt- sNS'
look at me mint. Somihin has got to be did,
We arc locsin ground evry day.. We lost eight
votes in Grover township since I.nkin was NOM
mated. Can't you send speaker down to Starke
county? or it would do we'll enough for you to 60
yourself, If you will keep back part OF your true
principles, like the rest OF US has to DO. il VIC
don't git up some new baljcrlash rite away Jones
will be elected by over two hundred mjorty.-
Tro Auadred mgioray' Il gricvcs me most to
death. I've bin str,inin & swettin & erwin over
our present torn up Affairs gincraIly, till the tears
has run down into my very butes. Spirt-rappera
& ghost of Hamlet! Come to my aid. My good
wife. Penina, Jest left her washin and cum up
stairs to sec mint, e. scein my face so long,
and me lookin 50 orfu. distressed, she SAYS if J
don't quit this ritn shell brake the soap gourd over
my bald pate. SO I've got to stop it. But III
rite ye agin next week. expect can see deeper
into politix of general natur. than any fcler this
side of Charleston or Harpcr's ferry, or Cuba, or
bred Scott. or any other city of any note.
Penina sends her love to yer wife. & to the wife
Of the Dimocrat that We nominate for representa-
tive. e. to the wife Of Stephen Arnold Douglas &
OF Jeems Buchanan.
Yours for the right, for slavery in the territories,
for the acquisition Of Cu5a, for the opening up OF
the foreign slave trade, for the protection OF slave
labor, Tor the mex. war. asais; the homestead bill
against freedom, frcemen ard free labor. against
the pacific Rail rode, against the admission Of
Kansas any other free state. both and hence
forth till We have everlasting SIN ,sh up 4 one
general good time.
OBADIAH PRINGLE.
P.S. Call on that doctor in your town that has
big vart on the end Of his nose g. send me some
catch grease pr next express. O.P.
IT, reg ~ Pvr>x~rxr.-,,-ra