Yankee letters.
An almost countless number of Yankee letters have been captured by our troops on the several battle-fields, within the past few days.
Many of them are hard specimens of Northern literature, and nearly all of them decidedly trashy.
As an exception, we make some extracts from a letter dated, ‘"
Marshal, Mich., May, 29,"’ from which it will be seen that there is at least one sensible man left in the
North, who is unwilling to swallow the Abolition dose which the
Seward Administration is preparing.
The name of the writer we deem it judicious to withhold; but will state that the letter is from one brother to another:
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"I am also glad, Ben. you are not a miserable abolitionist.
I am glad to hear you speak well of
McClellan.
I wish he and the whole army would turn against abolition and its leaders.
Dear Ben. I hoped this war would be over and all things settled again.
It seems the Southerners are very determined to have their independence.
I believe they will; if not at present, at some future time.
"There is no use in living among a people who think a negro ought to be free.
I wish every one in the land would take the plague and lie. You do not know what they are until you live in a place like
Chicago, where a great many people treat them the same as whites, or better.
I say, d — n the nigger, and hope the
South will never give up while there is a free negro in the country.
I suppose there are a great many soldiers who think they ought to be free, but such are fools and beggars.
What do the soldiers in general think about the abuse of
McClellan?
Do you think the soldiers of the middle States will ever suffer him to be insulted by the G — d d — n
Fremont fanatical abolitionists?
I believe yet, that
Pennsylvania, the middle States, and the border States, will get tired of abolition fanaticism and unite with the
South.
Still, Ben. stand by the
Constitution; that is the
American's only God and raw.
‘"No wonder, Ben. there are no Union men where you are. What have they to be Union men for?"’
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