Leila wrote: "DEAR JOHN: It is against the rules to write to any one but parents, and I am breaking the rules when I enclose this to you.

I do not think I ought to do it, and I will not again.
"You would not know me in my long skirts, and I wear my hair in two plaits.

The girls are all from the South and are very angry when they talk about the North.

I cannot answer them and am sorry I do not know more about politics, but I do know that Uncle Jim would not agree with them.
"I go on Saturdays and over Sundays to my cousins in Baltimore.

They say that the South will secede if Fremont should be elected.