Litchfield enquirer., 1833-10-17
WAsHINeToN CITTs Sent. l4, 1888.


 To the Edi,Or of the Potiamd Courier, a10ay ocvn
 east in the State cf AfaiRe.
 My dear old friend: Its got to he a pretty considerable long while now since I've writ to you, for never like to write, you know, with out have something to say. But I've got something on my mind now that keeps me all the time thinking so much that cant hold in any longer. So jest between you ana me- I'll tell you what 'tis. But must begin ilt- tie ways beforehand, so you can see both sides oft, and I'll tell you what tls as soon as get along to it. You see and the President had been down to the Rip Raps few weeks to try to recruit up little; for that pesky tower away down east like to did the job for the old GineraI.. So after we got things pret- fy much to rights here, we jest stepped aboard the, steamboat and went down tO the Rip Raps. That are Rip Raps is a capital place it is worth all the money we ever paid Tar II, if it was for nothing else only jest to recruit up the Government. IT. is one, Uf the most cOOf- est places in the suinner time. that you ever sec. Let feller be all worn out and wlted down as limpsy as rag. SD that the doctors would thiUk he was jest ready toffiy off the handle, and let him gu down to the Rip Raps and stay there fortnight, and he'd come up as smart as assieeI trap. The President got recruited up so nicely while we were down to the Rip Raps. that ever since we got back, ill two or ihreedays ago, he has been as good naiured and soriabte as ever should wish to see body. And uog I'm coming pretty soon to what was going to tell you about, that bears SO heavy on my mind.
 You see, the President likes every morning, after the breakfast is out Sf the way, to set down and read over the newspapers, and see what is going on in the country, and who's elected and soon. So when we've done break fast we take the letters and papers that come from the Post Office. and go away by our selves into the great east room where we can say jest what we've mind tO and nobody hearsus, and the President sets down in his great arm r0cking chair and smokes his segar, and set down by the table and read to him. Last Monday morning as was read- ing over the papers one arter another, come to a Pennsylvany paper and opened it, and says l, hulow, Gineral, here's speech of Mir. Webster at Pittsburg as large as life. An, said he, well let us hear what Daniel has been talk ing to them are Pennsylyany and Ohio chaps about. So bitched back in my chair and read on.t: And by and by began to get into the marrow ofthe story, where he told all a. bout Dullifcation, and what dark time we had of it last winter, and how the black clouds begun to rise and spread over the country, and the thundcrs of civil war begun to roll and rumble away off to the South, and by and by how the tempest was just ready to burst over our heads, and split the country all into shiv- CTS, and how in the very nick of time the Presidents Proclamation came out and spread over the whole country like rainbow, and how every body then took courage and said the danger was alover. While l had been read ing this. the President had started up on his feet, and walked back and forth across the room pretty quick, pnffing away and making the smoke roll 0at of his mouth like house . fire; and by the time had got through he had throwu his stkar Qut of tine window, and come and sot down iraHing his elbow on the table and looking right in my face. laid the paper down, and there he s0t looking right al me as much as five minutes and never said a word but he seemed to keep thinking as fast as d horse coul run. At last said he. Major Downing, were you ever told that you resemble Daniel Webster?
 Why. Gineral, saysI, how do you mean, in looks or what?
 z Why perhaps little of both, says he, but mostly in looks.
 Bless my stars, says I, Gineral, you dont mean to say that am quite so dark as he is.
 Perhaps not, says he; but you have that sharp knowing lock, as though you could see FlSHI tuTOubHA itlII-StODes knOW, says ne, that MT. Webster is rather dark booking man, but there isn't another man in this country that can throw SO much kght on dark sub ject as he can. <
 Why yes. says I, he has remarkable fac- ulty for that; he can see through most any thing. aud he can make other folks see through II too. guess. says I, if he'd been born in old V:rginy he'd stood next to most any body.
 A leetie afpre lem, says the Gineral, in my way of thinking, I'll tell you what 'tis, Major. l begin to think your New Englanders aint the worst sort of fellows in the world after all.
 An well. says I, seeing is believing. and you've been down that way and can judge fnr 1 yourself But if you had only gone as far as DowningyilIe guess you would thought still better of lem than you do now. Other folks may talk larger and hluster more. says I, but V shenever you are in trouble, and want the re- Il alsupport in time ofneed, go to New England for 1t and never need to be afraid but what it will come.
 | believe you are right. says the Gineral for nVtwithstandiMgsNl all caAlda do with my against nullilication. believe I should have rubbed hard if there had been no such men ,in the country as Major Downing and Daniel Webster.
 But this notification business isn't killed yet, The tops are beat down, hut the roots are a- live as ever, and spreading under ground wi- der and wider, and one of these days when they begin to sprout up again. there'll be tougher scrabble to keep 'em down than there has been yet and Eve been thinking, says he, and ha laid h;o h .,.l s,t. nv shnOidnr nd lork