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a going to Florida probably it is
not true I went to the city to day
and got my likeness taken for Eunice
I went to the Capitol and into the
house of repesenatives and staid about two
hours and heard the congress men scold
and shake their fists at one an other the
gentlemen from Maryland introduced
a bill to rais some home guards in
that state the gentleman from Mass opposed
it he sad that we had got more troops
than we could manag and he hoped to
[a?] God he would send us some one to
manage them and that these home
guards were to uphold the devilish
institution of slavery and to prevent
them from escaping from the lash into
the free States, at this the man from
Maryland jumped up and roared out for
the speaker to call that man to order
no more roon the beugle sounds for lights out
Cassmer