Jan. 16, 1860.
. . . The people born and bred in the North
are more enthusiastic in this revolution than the natives to the soil.
If you want me to
come away you must move to get me something to do. I know it is ridiculous for
me to ask this of you, but on the other hand I would not stay in Ohio ten days
without employment. I wrote you last that you might visit Louisiana with Willie
and Lizzie, but these events are hurrying along too fast to make arrangements
ahead. Still I doubt not I shall be here into February and maybe March. Though
when Govr. Moore receives my message he may think it wise to get me away. Smith
on the contrary wants to prove to me that here in Louisiana we shall have more
peace and prosperity than in Ohio. . . ——— has written me that he should take
his family to Europe for safety and return to fight in the sacred cause of his
country South, and against the invasion of the fanatic North. So you see what
force religion and charity has upon the minds of mankind. I know millions are
sincere in the belief that the people of the North have done a barbarous deed
in voting for Lincoln.
General Graham lays
low and says nothing in these times, but I know he is much distressed at the
hasty manner in which things are pushed. . .
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