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Childs family letters, 1860-1865
1864-09-04 Page 2
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have but one wored of sympathy for them that is the law will make you willing I am for hiring men as long as we can get them and make the copper heads help to pay them I doe not think the war can last a great while longer for the new men go in with such a will and the old soldiers are mostly all going back again and if the rebllinon is ever to be put down I think it will be this year but we must not give up if it takes three years longer I am for making the war a perman- ent institution and carying it on forever if we can not maintain our government without for what will a union mans life or property be worth if the rebes gain the day for the country is full of traitors north as well as south and we should have slavery all over blessed country I expect warm times this fall about election for the McLellan party is quit strong here if he is elected and undertakes to cary out the Chicago platform I doe not think the union men will stand it and if lincon is elected agan [?] an most sure thare will be trouble for you are a [illeg] of the wide spread conspiracy to resist the adminis- tration thay are onely holding on until after elec- tion if Mcclellen is elected thay will be all right but if ol Aabe is gets it agan and orders another draf I shall fear them more than than the traitors south thay are sid to be 200 000 strong in this state thay go by the name of Mcclellan minute men in some states the O M R, in some the sons of liberty but let
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have but one wored of sympathy for them that is the law will make you willing I am for hiring men as long as we can get them and make the copper heads help to pay them I doe not think the war can last a great while longer for the new men go in with such a will and the old soldiers are mostly all going back again and if the rebllinon is ever to be put down I think it will be this year but we must not give up if it takes three years longer I am for making the war a perman- ent institution and carying it on forever if we can not maintain our government without for what will a union mans life or property be worth if the rebes gain the day for the country is full of traitors north as well as south and we should have slavery all over blessed country I expect warm times this fall about election for the McLellan party is quit strong here if he is elected and undertakes to cary out the Chicago platform I doe not think the union men will stand it and if lincon is elected agan [?] an most sure thare will be trouble for you are a [illeg] of the wide spread conspiracy to resist the adminis- tration thay are onely holding on until after elec- tion if Mcclellen is elected thay will be all right but if ol Aabe is gets it agan and orders another draf I shall fear them more than than the traitors south thay are sid to be 200 000 strong in this state thay go by the name of Mcclellan minute men in some states the O M R, in some the sons of liberty but let
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