Babel being "ignored" in Manning, the "marshall and merchants" being the main transgressors. She can "furnish proof of one of our leading citizens saying that Germany ought to rule the world."
German ministers informing on each other? The writer discusses various Carroll county Lutheran ministers and their varying degrees of allegiance to Babel. He encloses a letter to one of these, Reverend John Ringold in Arcadia.
Forceful letter against apparently widespread German influence in Carroll, ending with flourish: now that we have the Germans to heel, must we not twist the ankle a bit? Also includes interesting assertation the Germans sign off (!) on…