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Letter from Francis Smith, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Marsh, December 17, 1860. He mentions his new legal career and relationship with the "'boys' with whom I used to run - ...." Misses his Bolivar friends and longs to "eat a small quantity of that North Carolina dirt. They have an article up here that might be called 'Minnesota dirt' with a great degree of propriety - for it is decidedly the dirtiest specimen of the ardent that was ever used by white men. Our people have been taking this secession matter very coolly until recently - but now their eyes are open to the great danger the Confederacy is in and the utmost alarm prevails "among them all.  I hate to think of it--much less to speak of it. My only wish is that every abolitionist of the north and fire-eater of the south - that all disunionists per se were buried in one common grave - and buried so deep too, that the resurrection wouldn't reach them. They are a parcel of d - d traitors . . . .I have such a perfect horror of disunion that I get somewhat excited every time I think of it and say more than I really intend to."

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sc.0240.001_002.013

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1860 December 17

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Smith, Francis.

Letter: Francis Smith, St. Paul, to Marsh, 1860

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