This "mostly German" county how thinks they can "talk what they want to" now that the war is over. Gets a bit violent thereafter, as he engages in patriotic fantasies: "I am a real yankey [sic] and I am getting damned tired of it if you get a club…
This letter was from Minnesota to Iowa. In the letter it not only was hoping for guidance on what publicity works in Iowa, but if Metcalf would offer guidance on the material Minnesota was planning on distributing.