Lancaster, Wisconsin, March 5 1909

L. W. Hopkins

 

Dear Sir

            A man must frequently make up with his hands what he lacks in his head.

 

I sealed my long letter without without refering to the important matter and that is, I am well pleased with "Bull Run to Appomattox" so well that I shall reread it and expect to read all that I can find time to read. My wifes people were nearly all Southern people My two brothers married Southern people. Not one of them ever cut my acquaintance even in war times when I called on them in the South.

 

My mother was an Augusta woman (Georgia) who inherited 16 slaves, urged all to come with her to a cold Indian country & be free; but [?] objected and found other masters. The three she freed—she was very hostile to slavery & so taught & prayed with her children. And she had her way except that refused to join an organization that tolerated this raising of children for market. /

 

The news has just come that Isaac Stephenson has just been elected United States Senator & I must go out & hang the flag up on my building as it appears in the cut—& now I hope our legislators will cease playing fad

 

                                                                        Respectfully & truly yours

                                                                                                John G Clark

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