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Chambersburg, Oct 12 1854
Dear Col-
Yours is at hand. Huzza for Pollock & Sellers! Our county has fully redeemed my promise to you some time ago. Pollock will have near 900. Robison elected to Congress high and dry. I know all about the Crawford movement, and in fact was in it myself as deeply as I could be. I saw when in Juniata in September that the election of Crawford as a division [man?] was the only way of keeping Sellers [right?]. I called on Crawford myself on the subject, and found him [right?]. He is a reliable man, and you can depend on him. If your end has elected him, as I infer is the case, he would go to the d__l to avenge himself on the [Baurn?] men. You need not concern yourself about him. I know of no man, in all my acquaintance who sticks closer to his friends and is more unrelenting with his enemies. And he will be no halfway man-he always goes the whole way or [none?].You will have no reason to regret his election, either as regards your local issue or as regards you personally. Had I been in Juniata I should have voted for him -But huzza for Pollock! I think now that we shall have an honest administration and one that we can stand up to with our whole hearts. Of course Judge is a Know Nothing, and I ain't-but no difference, I am sound on the principle. -I am much rejoiced at Sellers' success and I am well aware how much you have contributed to it. For your personal efforts for Sellers I feel personally grateful to you, for you probably know that Sellers & McClure were identical in Juniata; and had he been defeated, it would have been chuckled over by such chuckle-headed fools as Bell as the [overthrow] of McClure dominion in Juniata. I do not try to control the county, but they insist that I am doing so, and whether guilty or not, they would have heralded Sellers defeat as my defeat.
-Huzza for Pollock Yours &c A K McClure
Col Slifer