Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1860 — Letter to s. A. Douglas. [ARTICLE]

Letter to s. A. Douglas.

Coon Crtck Stringff.llow P. 0.,M0. ) Jan 27 1860. <, Dear Douglas I see you have been inakin A powerful speech & offerin A powerful Bill, Somethin about Insurections at harper ferry and in Kansas Now as I seen you up in Ind in 56 on the ground where Gineral harrison fit the Ingens I no when you Komrnense any thin it lias to go or Breach a klevis pin. Now what I want to git at is this, you nous democrats sees through all things But as I want to kind of give you some Instruction I hope you do not mean in your Bill that you are a goin to hang our democrats out here on Koon that stold or Tuck the guns at Liberty for I tel you we are goin to git a Mighty hard site here this fall & we want all of our good Democrats But I Reckon you only want to hang A few Black Republicans in order to git some capital to Lect an other glorious Democrat Dear Duug’us I was powerful glad when I herd of harpers ferry gettin took by old Brown Oswelama Thinks I Now we gist got em But O Think how my hare Riz when I herd Governor wiHard was in it Thinks I thats a gon Goose & I have been tbinkin evei since we would have to try somethin else But O Dug gist think of my joy when I herd of your Bill Now all weve got to do is to be verry Careful in gettin our Com mites soes we will not hang another Dimocrat. Now I want to say one word about Congress you must tell our Dimocrats to not vote lor the Plural Rule if they do wo are a gun Guos. But if we git beet I think we had Better not desolve the Union this winter But give them one more Awful site But Sir 1 tel you up here on Koon we are awful for the union if thoyl let us Rule &. \ye are most -powerful for the Constitution i! theyl let us tel them \yhat it means; Up here on ICoon we are a unit, for Liberty you npjmr four fathers fit for Liberty you no they fit to nive us Liberty to git Drunk and fit.- il we w«nl to They fit to g* : ve us Libert to carry slaves all over this cuntry and make it one vast Glorious Niger cun try; They lit to give us Liberty to tar & whip till the litionists in the Southern States They lit for slavery and slavery extension they fit that our Glorious slave Drivers might. Rule this cuhtry for all time to conip. But <> Stephen I have one most pairLul thing to Rite up here on Koon w-' got an awful Liekin last fall the matter is very painful to Rite on we ulaimed old Koon county by 100 But. O think when I tel you that our Best Dimocrat got Bert. 280 & ii your Bill does not do somethin lor us it is hard to tel where we will Land next fall I cant tel what is the Reson of it l ilt i lay it to this vast Redin matter I seen all through ■it when the Lotion was over we had one j Township in old Koon that had Nary post, office in it & in that the old Dimocrat Gained 12 votes But Alas where the Tribune was we got. awful Licked. Before I close I want to give you s me more instructions in Congress There is one man there that I want some of our Diwocrat Boys t ' Brpgerick him The one I want killed is Hickman I am A fraid he is goin to Leave our Parly he thinks A Republican better than James Buchanan (Tremendus chers on the Dimocrat Side) now there is only one thing I want you to Not tell, if they Kill Hickman I dont want you to tell I got it up for I belong to church and theyl think Im goin in for murder But I think it to Bad for any man to Leave our Party, for we no we have allways ruled and the Government Belongs to our party’-'TYut dear Dug our Bovs Done one thing I did not Like you no we Dug up the old dead Now nothin party for fear the Irish would leave our party (Becaus we killed the homestead Bill) and gist made them stand Rite up to us Grass or no grass. But what line at is our Boys gined in. with the owl party of tfie South to try to elect A Speaker But Dear Dug it sounds woss than it looks (oryou no we would gine the Devil il he would give us the office and the Kingdoms of this eaith Providen he would give us Liberty to Rule it with whisky and Nigers Dear Dug I would Like you to write to me arid til me all about the Big Convention I at Indianapolis I here they hqd some fitin But. I Recken it was all lor tiie Better I want you to pieh in strong and gitthe Nomination at Charleston and dont Let them push you off your Teritoriel platform But who cares for platforms if they make another platform we up on Koon here will git rite on for we do not. care for platforms nor principles we Belong to the Dimocrat party yea we can tell you lour dodges Behnnged to it you no we understand one an other we can elect, an then tel em what our platform means Bui D mr Dug I fear if our Boys up (in Coon Need that you was ginin us with ! the Now nuiliiiis in Congress we would git anuther avvfil Licken next full But thanks to Ihe old democracy they do not no nuthin

only what people tels em and theyve seen to much of old Democracy for the Last Eight years to believe that Yours stiken to the Dimocrat party Sam Stringfeller. P. S. has Peter Pringle hern from Jesse D. Bright since the convention.