The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1862-07-17
from the Hawksye
TllD EVIDENCES

TZAU EVAD6NO0
Upon which GeorEe wallace
Jones was ArreDec0 and Ame
prlsOmed ~ = ~ aleOr.
NAusEAr. Nc, SENTIMENTAL PERJURY!
Intercepted Letter, writses By Jones
soAilc .Nimister at Boyofa, a s,corn
officer ara,c,ng his pay from the Gov.
ernn,ens, offering material aid and
sympathy to J.D. Davis as President,
hc-proposing q take The sSSs 81
yebell;os and fight for Il sSaiass the
Governvsems-Hc AesosMees Douglass
as an asprinciple.l R'nsaybgse-says
he hus or will gisc lis soas to the
iSp.sAcyn caMse, &c.
. LEGATION u. s., Rogo4a, N. g.,
May II, 1861.
MY NOBLE AND VERY DEAR rRIKND:-
III consequence Of the continuance
Of tho horrible civil war whEh still con:
t,nucs to be waged in this distracted
and divided Republic, and the interr"P-
ton Of all mail communication from the
United States and elsewhere, l did not
receive your kind and highly pr'zed
letter Of the goth Of Janunry last until
the 18th nit, and then At honda, to
which place repaired myself czpress'y
for the purpose Of receiving my dis
patches, letters, newspapers, &C., which
I had heard were there. It took me
three days travling over almost 'mP"s.
able mountains to get to Honda, bnt
was well repaid for my trouble, rs re.
cc,cved some 35 letters from my wite
and children, besides some 20 others
from my Government and old friends
with some 600 newspapers, all Of which
have afforded me both pleasure aud
heartfelt pain to read.
did not come across the valcdictory
speeches Of yourself, dear Clay, Mallory
and Yulce, until yesterday. devour-
ed them all with greedy appetite, but
not without the shedding oftears, dear
friend, when read the farewell Of
yourself, especially as 40 pathctically
expressed in your last speech in the
Senate, m well rs in that Of the 1Otl, OF
January, when you SO beautifully de.
picted to your fellow Senators and the
world the situation Of the country and
the dangers which threatening it
Yon MAXWELL say as you do in your
letter to nc that yon "know you W
will sympathizc with us (yo~"
How can l feel otherwise, dear old
friend, college mate and colleague, than
sympathizc for yon and yonr people
whom yen represent on such an &C.
casion. Rom in what they taun,ingly
call a. free State Tndiana] brought mp
in Missouri, and educated there and in
Kentucky, and having resided for the
last 81 years in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Iowa, Tcannot but bc well acquain-
ted with the principles feelings and
actions Of the parties to The contest
which is now going on in my beloved
country.
When went 10 Wisconsin, sir Sim
ava Mound, then Michigan, took
with me. my servants, whom, 1t their
request purchased, they having been
horn in Illinois, and made slaves ur.ler
the ordinance of 1857. Abelitionists.
who like Doty, Bronson, Burnett, Ct. al.
came to my house to share my hospi-
tality told my slaves that they were free,
and actually induced the ignorant, but
happy Paul to believe he was free, and
to bring suit for himself end his sister
Charlotte, both Of whom ycu may re-
collect as they waited on yon when you
visited us. had a vexatious and long
law suit with Paul, but triumFhcd over
him and his abolition advisers. lserv-
ed in Congress ~ Delegate from Mich
;gan and Wisconsin two years each,
and vas then beaten for the third term
by Doty, because served as second
IN the Cilley and Graves duel, and was
slave owner.
In 1871 / was removed from tho Of
fee Of Surveyor General Of Wisconsin
Iowa BY Gen. Harrison's adnininstra-
ton, through Doty's influence as the
then delegate, simply because | was n
Democrat and sympathizcd with the
South--no single objection having been
made against me Of any other charact-
or. Mr.. Polk, God bless hin, restored
me il ls45, ard put out the long legged
black republican Jim Wilson, Of New
Hampshire, who had superseded me.
was transferred from the Surveyor
Generals Office in December, 1913, to
the u. 8. Senate, and driven .:herefron
by the abolitionists ia March, 1850, no