Response to Davis from Governor's office, noting that Babel wouldn't stop this woman from talking German, but that there is not reason "for this case to be given publicity through the columns of your paper."
In this letter, HJM congratulates a John Behm on his efforts in closing German speaking schools in Yorktown and Clarinda. He tells Behm that he actually has no authority to close schools operating for religious purposes, but goes on to say that if he…
This letter is addressed to a Linden farmer, John Wasson, who had presumably been suspected by others in his community of being a slacker. HJM reports that his
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…
