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FARMERS' INSURANCE CO.
GEO. F. De FOREST, President. A. P. LONG, Secretary.
Business confined to Farm Buildings, Detached Dwellings and contents.
Freeport, Ill., Feby 27th 1863
To His Excelency
Gov Yates Springfield Ill
Dr Sir I am a Republican from the incipency of the party now g_. d__a_m it Can you give Democrats office & not give me I will Refer you to Col Dornblaseer Commanding Brigade or to E. B Washburne our Congressman from this district they can not take me as a private but I want to go & take some of these Democrats == give me something your can do it I have been a Republican Since 1856 it is my Right to have have something I have written you often & suppose have troubled you but our country is going to the Devil Republicans must be put in office or we are gone up I will Refer you to Hon E. B. Washburne M.C. or B Dornblaser Col 46th Ill Vol now Comdg Brigade in Tennesee. I have asked before now give me something as a Republican in the army I will do any thing you order me to do that is honorable
Your Obt Servent
Thos L Buckley
Thos L Buckley
Freport Feby 27 1863.
Wishes the Governor to give him some office says he has been a Republican since 1856 Refers to E B Washborn MC the Col of 46th Ill Vol & others.
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