Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-07-09
LETTER FROM
MAJOR JACK DOMINGO
BosroN IN THE FREMONT HOUSE.

Tuesday morning, June 70, 1888.
To Uncle Joshua Downing. in Downing
Vile down east in the state of Maine to
go in the fast male through Portsmouth
in N. Hamshire, with care and speed.
Dear Uncle Josh-The President told
me good deal tother day when he and !
was setting alone smoking couple OF
long mines in one Of the hind rooms after
we had got clear OF the governor and the
rest Of the Boston folks that came to pay
their respects to us in the fremont
house
Says he, Major-now you and ! are
alone | want to tell you v hat think oil
the folks this side of New York. Well
says I-say on general-'WelP' says he
l''Maor Downing, if it hadn't been for the
Proclamation about the nullhers / never
should come hcare and been treated in SIGH
mastery style as this. The Bostonians
beat every thing I've seen yet all holler.
Only think ajor what a lot OF children we
had about on the common. They be-
haved as orderly as grown up folks
|''Yes, says |, that's true general, we've
seen nothing like it yet but wait till we
get to Downingvile and if we don't show
you something grander and lnore SULTAN.
tial then we've had hear then my name
amt Jack Downing. You may judge a
little, general, of what you will sre there
from my company Of Rangers that | took
on 10 Washington last winter. That's
true, said the general, we can tell better
then. Now uncle Joshua want jest to
tell you agn that you must spruce up
and take away all the old pine brush and
SIGH like stuff from the door yard SO we
can drive up in front OF your house full
chizel and have all Downingvile wide a.
wake to meet us. You must mend up
the bridges all along the road for fear VIC
shall have another schrape'wo than the
one we got into in New York.
:. When you git to Portland, you must
: nina an snake n,o uia s-.s, =, f.~e'
c Of any body don't stop to speake to me
: for he'll be as mad as march hare 1t yo'
t do. The old gentleman has got SOM
:; grand notions about all the folks down
: east and say; every word Eve told hin
r comes true aboutem. shall have SOM
: pretty queer things to tell YOU about m
h and the President sense we first started Of
II our tower from Washington. Most o
the hansomest Of the ladise have mistool
] me for him. He and | come pcsky nea
J. getting in pretty considerable of a quarre
r this morning, and if it hadn't been tina
n we both haulel in our horns, there's n
e knowing how it nigh ended. You see
|, uncle Josh. thares Van Buren, joined tn
) Presidents caravan al New York, 20
Il know, and after the bridge smashed
/, and liked to kill me and the President an
,t| MIR. Woodbury., thinks l to myself no
d comes this-we've travelled all the wa
to from Washington, and have had nothin
To- like it besides heres bridge in til
IF ere great city of New York that evel
l. DO " has been used 10 for going on tive
i'd ty, years. and it never caved in befor
adj and guess can smell a rat in this bi
On ness, so all at once Jumped up out
" my chair, and says to the general, 81
ait bout that are plaugy New York brid
IN that come SO near drownding us all in
or bunch. "Well, what of it Major" sa
TO- he-"what is your opinion about itr"
at, Why, says its my firm opinion that V
m. Buren, sawed off the sleepers the mig
he before we got to the city, on purpose
am get us into a scrape.
in: At this the President rarcd right
he on his legs about the quickest and loo
oar ed me in the face as if he'd cat me up
ny lquick as your grey hound will swallow
sid junk Of fresh meat, and says he sit "
sed never do Major to mention SIGH thing
Use that for we shall get into plaugy sn
ons just as we did last winter" Well I C;
Iil- help that if VIC do says live logged
be long as slick as could be till we took
ere Van Buren, into our company and e,
IAN sense that you've been in trouble, and
she my opinion he's at the bottom of it,
nit. I'de no sooner said this than the old {
eek neral stepped up TO me and hoisted
Of old green specks up on his forehead a
put see what was coming so tho't sect
APP we'd got so near home to Downingv
or that twas best to ease on little and hi
Ugh the matter up-so says "well you'v,
ION right 10 your opinion and I've RICH,
lpt. mine; SO we dropt talking about it.
raj I'll tell you what, mean to keep sha
er- look out for'em for I'm fraid they arc
ant in to kill thePresident some how or ot
ose howsomever we both made up on the S
NJ an agreed to say nothing about what ,
'ay. sed. I've great deal more to tell
oat but I'm hurried most to death and c.
half say q quarter as much as l want tu
on Tell aunt Keziah she had better skour
and all her tin milk pans and puter plat
the and spoons and set'em in "a row on
also long settle.
OF Unjust wind up this letter uncle JOS