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4pp. To Mrs. Lake. Autograph Letter Signed. La Villa, Houston Co. Georgia. Nov. 24, 1888. Descendant of a Revolutionary War veteran who was one of the earliest settlers in a rural county south of Macon, given his land for military service, Daniel Franklin Gunn III was one of the 293 signers of the Georgia Ordinance of Secession in January 1861 and was a Corporal in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Happy with his sugar cane and cotton business, but – “...we feel gloomy over the result of the election...It means nigger postmasters, nigger mail agents, nigger mail carriers and niggers in all places that the United States Government manage to control, with a prospect of the general government passing more laws to humiliate the white race in the South. I will remember when Harrison's Grandfather was elected president and hearing my father say that he recognized the hand of providence in his early death before he had time to enact the wicked laws to build up what he called monopolies then but trusts now - I have often seen my fondest hopes disappointed and that which I had set my heart the most on denied and then everything turn out better than was expected…it is the best to accept the inevitable…as Henry Clay said in a speech in Kentucky when he heard that Tyler had vetoed the bank bill that they would have to pack their flints and try them again. We’ll try the Rads again in 1892...Lord willing.