We find the following in the Louisville Journal of Saturday:
To the Editors of the
Louisville Journal:
GENTLEMEN:– Amongst other luxuries of which I have been
deprived since my imprisonment, is the pleasure of perusing those chaste and
refreshing notices, with which, for some time past, your paper has honored me;
and although in my progress through the North I have met with many attempts on
the part of the press at an imitation of your peculiarly felicitous style of
misrepresentation I have found none to equal the original. I am therefore under the necessity of
applying to the fountain head. In
enclose two dollars, for which please send me your country daily, to the
following address:
GEN. S. B. BUCKNER
Care of Col. J.
Dimick,
Fort Warren, Mass.
P. S. Since writing the above, our friend Col. R. W. Hanson,
has reached this celebrated resort, and desires me to add that the present of a
demijohn of whisky which he learns you have promised him would never be more
acceptable than at this present time – the locality and the latitude; as well
as the sentiments of our neighbors up the harbor, holding out most tempting
inducements to cultivate a taste for that most delightful beverage. As a matter of caution, however, he urges me
to add that he hopes, if the liquor be good quality, you will not venture to
taste it, as he might thereby incur much risk in losing it altogether:– a privation
which, however agreeable to yourself, would be attended with serious
inconvenience to himself during the prevalence of the prevailing “nor’easters.”
S. B. B.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3
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