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and one of them showed his principle to you so i am told when you was over here
i mean J.T. Hand assisent assessor in this county
Mr Creswell has another in his office John H. Thompson and the post master here in this town will hardly give a colard man a pleasent answer when he goes for his mail
two mail carriers these are the men who reaps the rewards of a republican administration while the true who shouldered his musket and left his home and family, and went forth with life in his hand to battle with the enimys of the country and are killd up and crippled from disease and exposure are left out and forgotten while those that stayed home and done all the harm they could do are the men who reaps the rewards
i am a republican and i was a soilder in the union army and my name is recorded in Washington as such and i want it to stand there until Gabrel shall blow his last trump and swear by him that liveth for ever that time shall be no more, that is the kind of republican that i am 
away with conservatism and all other tisms except true undauntd republicanism that is the kind of republican that i am and as such i am turn down when conseratism or rebelism is kept up
i applied through Mr C.E. Fulton jr for the pitiful office of post master of this town but conservatism prevaild while republicanism and the old union soilder was forgotten and turned down

no more but remain yours
William Potts