George Price tells Abraham about their struggles to obtain new farming machinery, as well as the latest prices for wheat, oats, and corn. He goes on to write that "it will be our turn next not only to grow good corn but I hope to grow a Democratic President[.]" He hopes the tide is turning in the war, as "Abolitionism men who have been exterminationists" begin to realize that "the southern people cannot be subjugated[.]"