Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-07-16

dfuV1Rg h4S JT0nk ne I00tfHAte"t'
! o6eiing materiak bid and synapotdy 10
| J1. Darts as President. dc, Pyopos-
fng % take the sidy offe5eliioa andfght
for il oqaipst ths Gogera9seut- He IL.
aoaaces Dougius as a. uapriactptld
I Depsagogue says re has Or git give
his sons 10 The SeSthern cause, &c.
/ LEGATION q - oaoTA, NJ. O.,
Hay II 1861
MY NoaIn and very DEAR FnlEND -
iii consequence If the continuance Of the
horrible civil war which stif continues to
be waeed 10 this distracted and divided Re-
public. md tie interruption ofall anal COM
nmfilcation from the United States and
esewkele. I'D net receive your biad and
highly piizel letter Of the 20th Of J nuary
iAst, untd the 18th alf., and then n ionds,
to y hich place ! repaed myself expire sly
FOR The purpose Of receiving my dispatches
letters, newspapers, DC, which bad hcsfd
wee tbure. II took me three days lyayel
litg over almost impossible mountains 10
Jet 10 Honda. but | was well repaid for
ny trouble, ~ received some 20 letters
from my wife aud children, besides soiae
70 others from NY Government and Old
friends with some 900 newspapers, all Of
which have afiouled me both leAsuie and
heartfelt pam 70 read.
! | did not COM across the yaledic'ory
speeches Of younel, dear Clay, Mallory
aud Yulce, until yesterday. ! desoufed
them al with greedy appetite, bat nes
without the shedding tears dear friend,
when | read ihe flewe Of Yourself, ce-
peeal} as So palhetiesIg expressed ~ your
/ last sIesel ID the Senate. as well rs III that
Of The 10th Of JanuaFF, when you p beau
tifuly depicted q your fellow ) nators and
The world The situation 81 Tie country and
the dangers which were threatening il.
| You may vell say as you Do il your lei-
ter e methat you know you { will sym
1 pathizs with is (yon)
How can itel 'Iiemis dsarp'd friend,
college aate ai cafeagHe, thn ynp4-
/ thzs To- you and suur peapie sbom yon
represent ou such an occasion. Born ia
ebai they a pnutiagy call free State,
/ (ludiaua.) bfou II ap N Missouri, aud 81
Uestea thff- H. IS ac fH hatg
ia IT,
WISCONSIN a4 loses api Ha ef
acquainted with fhe jaae f-Ia
acipus u The parties li4. caatet 8hkh
Is aow going ou ID mt beloved cuatgy.
Waen | weut 70 Wisconsin, r, siaawa
Mound, then Michigan took 0lth me ms
servants, whom, ii Their requs 81, I puf
chased, they having been ben 10 lllipois,
and made slaves under Tie ordnance of
I17e7 Abo.ai8nisis, v BIO Else Daty. Bron-
son. Burncf, ct ell, came to 1875 boise t.
share my hospitality. told ny eiayes th ,
they were free, aud actually induced the
ignorant, but happy Paul to believe Tie
was Tree, and u bsing suit ioy himself and
Do ster Charlotte, begh % whom you
may ieollect Is thy wifed 90 y0a when
Sou visited us. h1d & ssxaiioas and long
law emit with Paul, ba, piuaphed over
him and his aholitrn alfiscrs. ! served
ID Congress AZ Delegate from Michigan
AMI Wisconsin two years each, aa8 WIS
then beateu ar Die ltird term by Dotv,
hecss | served il & second ID the CiIIey
and Ifryes duel, and WIS slave owner
u 1871 | was rsnaAed from tie office
of Safessor General of Wisconsin, and
lowe, by Gen. Harrissn's administration,
through Doiy's influence rs the then dole
ate, sisiplv aaase | sasa Democrat aud
isympathizsd with the South-no >iage
objection having beeh rsd- against me OF
aus ether character Mr Polk, God bless
him, restored me IN 1845, aud PAT oct the
long legged black Republican Jam Wilson,
u New Hampshte, who had supereel.d
me.
was transferred from tie Surveyor
! Generals Office IN December, 1913, to tie
/ II. S. Senate, and driven theFeFom Is tbs
abulifionists il March, 1859, no other OBJ
lection having ever been made g nc save
lthat was .olower ii the south anu 4
| dougbface for such men IS yourself Clay
and other Southcrners. llthefetore had
no other reason for sympatAizing with the
South, the bad treatment which have re-
ceised 1T the hands Of Northern Abolition
ists would have made me do SO. But up
Oh The Constitutional question, and even
upon chat Of expediec5, | never had q sir
gle doubt, but Il bah my residence ~
This country and NY knowledge Of the Ct
| feet # freeing the negroes in the West IN
dies and IN this Republic, would certainly
have uade convert If me As It has Of ey-
cry Englshman, Frenehman, German AMI
other foreigners whom have ever met
with in this c3anirv, aud who have seen
the bad cfFee.a of -AJolifioaisna.
| had hoped that Mr. Lincoln would pro-
claim soon after bis election his total dis.
sent FROM the mud Schemes Of his Aboii-
s. ton supporters, SO as to avert the disrupt
ag tornado which | say before leit New
York last November, WAS about 70 cause a
sissoIution Of our heretofore glorious
Union. believe from the course when
he had pursued with Douglas in his cam
paign tor he Senate IN 1858, that he was
not imbuel SO thoroughly with Abolition
ism as bis Republican supporters supposed
and Therefore | really preferred him then
ana last flsll to Douglas whom | knew to
be IN uppruc4led demagogue, and was
making speeches in tho North to please
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