Indianola, Iowa, October 6, 1862.
I have received your various letters, and I believe they
have done me great good by moving me to renewed exertions in behalf of the good
cause. I am enthusiastically received wherever I have been, and have everywhere
addressed large crowds. This is a Quaker county. A large number have said that
they would not vote at the coming election. I had a very large number of them
at my meeting yesterday in the public square in this town, and I am told that
after the meeting, with one solitary exception, they avowed their resolution to
vote.
The
President's proclamation is everywhere well received. We shall easily carry
the State, and elect all our Congressmen — and a very able delegation it will
be. No State will be better represented in the next Congress than Iowa.
SOURCE: William Salter, The Life of James W. Grimes,
p. 216-7
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