The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-01-13
A LETTER.

We are permitted to publish the following
copy of a letter received by n of our sub
scribers from a brother in Missouri q short
time ago. 1t painfully illustrates the savage
effect of Abolition teachings:
SrEwARTsvILLE, Sept. 10, 1868.
BROTHER With the greatest simplicity
/ employ a few Of the passing moments in
writing YOU a few lines in reply to yours Of
July 9th. We are we'll, but terrible mad
from reading your letter. | look on you as
being a low lived rebel, which is four degrees
worse than a darkey, in my estimation
just such men as you we hang their carcases
in the air to the first limb we come TO and
if you were in this country and advocated
the doctrine that you preach in your letter
that We have just got, you would be hung
before two hours and in my opinion you
have to be sly about talking that way in that
country, unless they are all like you, black
hearted rebels.
] have been in the service Of my country
for threee years, and / am not ashamed to
own it and / have been the means of hun
dreds of low lived rebels meeting their doom
aud departing from this world, meeting their
father, which is the devil in hell, and | in
tend Just as long as / live to keep sending
them there Just Is fast as the Old Boy can
fix a place to receive them, for / think that
by this time he must be a getting considera-
biz crowded. for there have been so many
rebels met their fate.
hope that you may get all right after a
while, and that We ma be together some
day or other and breathe the free and equal
air together. and in union strong together
fight hosannah TO our king. But as long as
YOU advocate rebel doctrine we never can
come together and be friendly, for to be ex-
posed as much as I have on account of the
low lived rebels, it makes me mad for any
person to plead for them. | have been as
high as sixty days and nights after them
with only ten days r%atiens, and no sleep ex-
eeeding two hours in the twenty four all the
whole time and If it wa in my power, il
would do my soul good to sing the last one
10 the bottomless pits never to raise them out
again.
You said that you wanted us to write, il
we could write without having the Negro in,
and if we could not, you said that we need
not trouble ourselves about writing. Now,
that Is not the way with me. | want you t.
write. and | want you to write like ron cared
something for a white man, and not so much
for the negro.
While | was a soldering. away from my
father here. I eften lay on my bunk and
studied about my relations. and especially
You away in Oregon, and hare wondered
whether you were for the Union rs it is, OF
for the Southern Confederaey, and would
answer the question myself aud say that you
we're fer the Uuian undoubtedly-eould not
be for anything else but behold, when
read a letter from you, you were against the
very principles that | have been fighting fer
Being as | haven't got room to express m
opinions in full On this sheet | shall come t
4 close.
/ wish you may change your sentiments
and if we never meet on this earth | hope II
meet you in heaven, and unless you do chang
| am sure we never will meet in heaven, fol
there is no place for a rebel.
Your brother.