State of Michigan
	    AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE
	    Lansing June 16, 1864.
Judge Christiancy  Dear Sir:
	A few days since I wrote a
letter in reference to the Auditor General.
I stand firmly by what I have said,
	        might
& much more ^ be said of the same imput.
     There has quite a hubbub in the office
this morning. The Auditor, his Wisconsin 
& Canada Clerks, his confidential clerk,
body servant & errand boy, S.D. Bingham
& Col. A.R. Burr seemed particularly
nervous. The Auditor Started for Detroit
possibley to see you, & Bingham has gone
on a mission to some other place. I saw
Bingham show Burr a letter for his
approval, & think it was intended to be
       sent			not
shown ^ to you, & although I do not

know its contents, it may be proper to
post you on a few facts.
     Should Mr Anneke call on you
at Monroe, if you think it will do no
public injury you may read it to him.
I mean what I say in that
letter, & am willing as far as I am
personally concerned, that he should
know its contents.
     Col. Burr, a few weeks since,
was apointed clerk in this office. I
am told that he pledged himself to
		       to get the position
help Anneke get the nomination ^. Anneke
told me May 11th he wanted Col Burr
to go to the second State Convention, & Bing-
ham to the first one. Burr told me he
had been thrown out of business by be-
coming bail for [illegible in original]; that he
did not want to do any more for
Anneke than necessary to keep his clerk-
ship etc etc; that he meant to keep quiet.

He has been Post Master, but resigns
to get the Legislature to release him from
the McKinney bail bond.
	I read a sentence of my letter
to H.D. Porter a clerk & gentleman
from Lenawee Co. (sent here by Senator Moore)
& Col Burr came & desired me to read
the whole, saying he [illegible in original] keep [shady?],
he
& ^ opposed it. He has played the fool,
the spy & the traiter & communicated the
fact of my writing to you to Mr.
Anneke, probably through Mr Bing-
-ham.
	My dislike of shielding myself from
the effects of my doings has led me into the
great poliltical mistake of [reading?] a letter

	  to you
addressed ^ to a man when I strongly sus
-pected of aiding the [illegible in original] of 1862. He had
heretofore trained with them, but was then
P.M. & could not come out openly. There
is here agang of political [illegible in original], who
first seek nominations, instead of working
for principels first & nominations afterwards.
I have never trained with them, nor
asked favors from them, but have pur
-sued a straightforward political course.
     Regarding my veracity & political
integrity as compared with S.D.
Bingham & Col. Burr, I refer you
to Hon. D.C. Leach and Hon
G Langford G. Berry
     Bingham was in the Union
movement in 1862, until they refused
to refused to renominate him Pres
Att'y. He then spent his time in trying
to defeat a Democrat for Pres Atty
on the Rep. Union Rep & Union Co ticket

& did not work for our party. I
oppose every Union combination, but
when a Rep Co. Convention had put a
Democrat & Rep on our ticket who had
[illegible in original] the Union movement, I supported
the whole ticket as Chr of Co. Com., for I
have never [scratched?] a ticket made
by Republican Conventions.
	To show how Col. Bunn views
his present friend S.D. Bingham in
1862, I inclose a hand bill, which
speaks for itself.
	Col. Anneke took the German
Lutheran Minister to task this morning
in regard to the Anneke & [illegible in original] pro-
gramme. But he barked up the wrong
tree. Reb. Mr. [illegible in original] is a clerk here
& a good man & good clerk. He did not
give the information, but I presume he
knows the facts. But I am sorry that
[illegible in original] unusual piece of carelessnes from

me will cause any decent German
to be hounded by Anneke this [illegible in original]
			   the campaign
     In 1845, after spending ^ of 1844 in
[entire two lines illegible in original]
I was so poor as to be obliged to
build a 11 X 12 shanty on a hill 80
in Hillsdale Co., having ague every day for
months; [illegible in original] water 5/8th of a mile
& live on what commens by myself. For
one full fortnight I had nothing to eat
but potatoes, which I was obliged to
		            neither
roast under a log, having ^ stove, fire
-place or kettle. But I did not then
for a moment regret my leaving the
Democratic Party & plenty, for freedom
& poverty. My means are limited, 
now, but I am raising some
potatoes now, & shall not cringe before
the despotic Prussian Auditor or his
base hirelings. 
	 I defy them to do their worst
As Ever, Yours, Truly,
		D.M. Bagley.
Excuse the rough writing.
I have many persons to write to.