Mitchell margaret

030215 — No Binding. Very Good. folio two pages in very good clean and legible condition accompanied by original mailing envelope. Dear Friend Shaw Here I am rusticating a short distance from Baltimore enjoying myself lustily and intending to do so while I may remain. I find the cause progressing finely here although it is in the very hot bed of Catholicism Roman as you can scarcely turn without overturning a Jesuit or setting your foot upon their property. The Irish here are as "green" as you find them everywhere else. I heard a tale the other day about one whether it be true or not is left for you and me to determine. An Irishman having started on a gunning excursion came to a tree and seeing what he imagined to be a bird fired afterward on going to look for his game found a little tree frog at the root and picking it up said "och fother - el - dol! What a beautiful bird ye were before I shot the fithers off ye entirely." But for a fact an Irishman just over coming to my Uncle to get work in conversation said they raised corn in Ireland to a very great extent and that he understood how to cultivate it on turning round and seeing a field of fine corn growing near the house enquired in good faith and seriously asked "sure Misther is thim beans ye are growing there" . On Monday I start for Washington where if I should stay more than a day you may hear from me from there if not then not. . Write me if possible so that I may get it before Monday. Mail me if you please a copy of the Aug. number of the "Friend" & I will try and oblige you some time in the way of papers &c. if you have anything that you think will interest the cause here and I can be the means of forwarding the interest I shall be pleased to receive & make such use of. If I can attend to anything for you I am willing ." The "cause" to which Mitchell refers was apparently that of the newly-renamed American Party formerly called the "Know Nothings" an anti-Catholic as well as anti-slavery movement which sometimes led to violent confrontation; just days after this letter was written in Louisville Kentucky 22 people died in an anti-Catholic riot during a hotly contested race for Governor. <br /> books