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Transcribed by: Wanda Ray<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transcription Date: 2.13.2006<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bethany, Va.\u00a0 Dec. 27th 1860<\/p>\n

J.S. Richards<\/p>\n

Columbus Ship<\/p>\n

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Dear Bro.<\/p>\n

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Your kind and worthy letter of 9th inst. Was handed me several days since.\u00a0 I was more than rejoiced to hear from you all.\u00a0\u00a0 Pa and Ma have quit writing to me entirely.\u00a0 I had not rec\u2019d a letter from home in two months when yours come.\u00a0 However I hear from them all in one the day before Christmas, they were all safe in the Swamp and doing very well.<\/p>\n

I am agreeably surprised to see that you are so much in favor of succession.\u00a0 That\u2019s my doctrine clear out, whole hog.<\/p>\n

I will send you some resolutions passed by the southern students of Bethany.\u00a0 There are I believe a good many mistakes in them owing to our second printing, though you can see the feeling of Southerners and think pretty plain.\u00a0 If Miss. does go out on the 7th of Jan I think it will be the noblest act of her existence.\u00a0 Well we Southerners, the happiest, (word?) and most independent people in existence, crouch ourselves beneath the step of abolitionism (the most contemptable sounding word ever uttered, and its meaning more so if possible) and be ashamed or afraid to utter and maintain our rights.\u00a0 No, for God sake No!\u00a0 I say secede from all such thinking stock and at once.<\/p>\n

I sometimes think I will bundle up and leave altho\u2019 Pa wishes that I should stay.\u00a0 But for him I would have been in Miss. long ago.\u00a0 Though I am admirably pleased with the Boss and Students.\u00a0 There are several abolitionists in college but they have to lie low look wild and get about (word?), or we will (word?) them into nothing which won\u2019t be hard to do.\u00a0 This excitement will be a great crash to business affairs.\u00a0 I am sorry to see is for this reason only.\u00a0 But I am talking of something I know nothing about.\u00a0 Have you moved in your house?\u00a0 And how does Kate like house keeping?\u00a0 Tell her to write to me and I will not own her as a sister.\u00a0 Little \u201cRich\u201d tho\u2019 from description keep her very busy.\u00a0 I imagine he is a right hard egg. \u00a0But his loud crying is a sign of good lungs and if he takes any after his Mammy he will make a President of the Southern confederacy yes, don\u2019t you think?\u00a0 Discontentedness shows his ambition.\u00a0 Stubbornness is mere firmness.\u00a0 So in a word he is a perfect whole.<\/p>\n

Pa in his letter never said a word about excitement just as tho\u2019 he would as soon Lincoln should be President as Bell or anybody else, and I expect he don\u2019t care much if the truth was known.\u00a0 We have two weeks vacation now.\u00a0 But so far it has been awful dry to me.\u00a0 I never drink or play cards or anything of the sort.\u00a0 I have been reading Baincroft\u2019s History which will profit me more in the end than frolicking would.<\/p>\n

May success crown your undertakings.\u00a0 Write.<\/p>\n

As ever your Bro.<\/p>\n

J.R. Baird<\/p>\n

(Tell Pes to write)<\/p>\n

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