September 21, 2019
Letter and poem written by lady supporter of the Temperance Whiskey Riot that took place April 1856 in Princeton Indiana.
New Harmony Ind July 6 1856
Dear Miss Martha Ann. We arrived home at four o’clock exactly after a pleasant drive with our blind horse and found the folks right end up inside you will find the verses that I was telling you about when you read them I want you to write and let me know what you think of them.
If I had been there when the fight come off likely I would done better.
Please write to us soon,
Yours in friendship. N.M. Chapes
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