I do not know, sir, whether this letter will bear publication; perhaps not the whole of it. But I assure you that I have exaggerated nothing and that, much as I would wish to see the evil consequences of that unfortunate affair averted, it would hardly be possible to accomplish it.
P. S.—I apprehend a publication of what I say about the state of feeling among the Germans from my pen would encourage the Democrats out here a little too much. I would, therefore, recommend to you to use this letter with some discrimination.
TO EDWARD L. PIERCE
Milwaukee, April 6, 1859.
Your favor of the 2nd inst. is received. I shall send you all the papers you want as soon as I can hunt them up. At the same time I shall write a few lines to the committee who have honored me with an invitation to the Jefferson festival.
Herewith I send you a copy of my speech on State-rights delivered in our judicial campaign. Would it not be a good thing to have it republished in a Massachusetts paper and to state in a note that the foreigner who made it would be disfranchised by your amendment if he lived in your progressive and intelligent Commonwealth? The fact is that I was naturalized and got my final papers of citizenship not quite two years ago. It would indeed be a telling illustration of the bearing of the amendment.
If you should publish the speech, cut off the last paragraph about the “candidates.”
