TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - LETTERS: Oremus HART to Steven D. WATKINS, 1846 
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Brookfield Nov. 21st. 1846
Steven D.Watkins from                                                (Ohio)
Oremus Hart

Sir;

 Your and Florinda's letters have been duly read and our anxiety for your
safe arrival at your distined port relieved.  Your friends are all enjoying
very good health through the favors of a continued kind Providence.  Your
Mother and family are to continue with Susan until spring.

Ihave no news, that I think of the write of interest.  Rosalinda Hart went
to Sharon some 2 months since and called Esqr, Clark out of his bed some
time between 10 o'clock at night and morning and was joined to a man of the
name of Harmon in the holy bonds of wedlock she being enciente the modest
creature.

The Whig cause is triumphing gloriously.  David Tod is elected to stay in
his coal bank.  New York state has elected Young by not less than 11,000
majority and 21 reps. to uongress.  Pannsylvania stronge Whig still a change
in Mercer County of more than 1100 Whig being 625 Whig majority., Jimmy Polk
is a doomed man and his dynasty in the consumption.  John Crowel and
Giddings for the next Congress a Whig congress pretty certain next.  No news
from the Army since the capture of Monterey it said that Santa A In the
worlds great Drama what apparent confusion. Law, Religion, Politics and Ware
are the four cardinal subjects.  Each is attended with its thousands
ramifications and abstractions, and we, the little actors, are whirled,
about until we are whirled off the stage to make room for new actors in the
same play and all impelled by surrounding circumstances.  And yet in all the
varied evolutions there is a Master hand who can bring order out of disorder
and regulate confusion itself in to perfect concord.  Intake their stand
either in heaven's Eternal bloom where there is no disorder nor changes but
one continued chorus of songs and praised to him who conquered Death. and
brought life and immortality to light! What a thought! Is such to be our
lot? It may be, it can be, and I trust hoping on God's mercy, it will be.
vain would it have been for puny mortals to have brought this Great
Salvation. It is alone through the loving kindess and enduring mercy of a
Loving Saviour and his death and sufferings on Calvary On the other hand
sits grim Death, grinning ghastly over the mighty host of umpardoned
sinners.  Plunged in a gulf of confused blackness with the old enemy
triumphing in their agony , the thought cannot be endured.  I must cast it
from me.


I need not say to you that I have much of my past life to regret yet is with
the years beyond the flood and cannot be recalled. My resolutions I am not
fond of telling, they are between me and my God.  Nor need I advise you to
be prudent, be civil and patient. Let no evil communications proceed out
mouth, and although your neighbors may seem strange to you speak well of all
and you will never regret it and will by so doing avoid many of the thorns
of this thorny world.

I will send you a newspaper soon. From information we think it not best to
send you those apples until your Father Hirst comes out in the spring.
Wiishing you all happiness I subscribe myself your old friend Orenus Hart A
thousand good wishes are sent by Your friend

P.S.   Write me soon and say what Mahaffy will do about that note and how
you are getting along.