Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-09-26

y 20 down to the Rip Raps and stay ther
i a fortnight, and he'd come back agai
= as smart as n steel trap. The Presiden
o got recruited up so nicely while we wer'
) down to the Rip Raps, that ever sine,
we got back, till two or three days ago
; he has been as good natured and soc ia
J BILE as ever should wish to see n body
And now Pm coming pretty soon to wha
l was going to tell you about, that bear:
so heavy on my mind.
!, You see, the President likes every
morning, after the breakfast is out ofthc
way, TO set down and read over the
newspapers, and see what is going on in
the country, and who's elected and so
on. So when we've done breakfast, we
take the letters and papers that come
from the Post Office, and go away by
ourselves into the great east room where
we can say jest what we've mind to
and nobody not hear Us, and the Presi-
dent sets down in his great arm rocking
chair and smokes his segar, and ] set
down by the table and read to him. Last
Monday morning as ] was reading over
the papers one arter another, come to
IL Pennsylvania paper and opened it,
and says hullow, Gineral, here's a
speech Of Mr.. Webster at Pittsburg, as
large as life. All, said he, well let us
hear what Daniel has been talking to
them are Pennsylvany and Ohio chaps
about. So hitched back in my chair
and read on. And by and by l began
to get into the marrow of the story, where
he told all about notification, and what
n dark time we had Of it last winter, and
how the black clouds began to rise and
spread over the country, and the thun-
ders of civil war begun to roll and rum
bic 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 shiveis, 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 all over. While | had been read
ing this the President had started up on
his feet, and walked back and forth u
cross the room pretty quick, putting a.
way and making the smoke roll out of
his mouth like house fire, and by the
lime | had got through he had thrown.
his segar out of the window, and come
and sot down leaning his elbow on the
able and looking me right in my face.
laid the paper down, and there he sot
ooking right at me as much as five min
Ites, and never said n word; but he SEEM
I'd TO keep thinking as fast as horse
'ould run. AT last said he, Maj Down
ng, were you ever told that you resem-
lied Daniel Webster?
Why, GincraI, says ], how do YOU
mean, in looks or what9 Il,
Why perhaps little Of both, says lie, ,
,ut mostly in looks.
Bless my stars, says I, GiperaI, you
lont mean 10 say that ! am quite 80 dark ,
IS he is.
Perhaps not, says he; but you have :,
rat sharp knowing look, as though you &
ould sec right through milstone.- - a
know, says he, that Mr. Webster is :,
.lher dark looking man, but there is . .
I another man in this country that can =,
ROW so much light OH dark subject as 4 4
C can. y
Why yes, says I, lie has remark able h h
Guilty for that; he can see through h
ost any thing, and he can make other ~
lks see through it too. l guess, says -
If he'd been born in old Virginny he'd H.
God next to most any body. "
A lcetic aiore 'cm, says the Gineral, in :,
" way of thinking. III tell you what = =
is, Major, begin to think your New Il
ing glanders aint the worst sort oS fellows .
/ the world after all. =
All well, says |, seeing is believing, =
nd you've been down that way now and r
an Judge for yourself But if you had II
My gone as far as DowningviIle, l guess -
Du would have thought still better Of
m than you do now. Other folks may n;
TX larger and buster more, says /, but y;
hcncver you are in trouble, and want =.
e real support in time OF need, go to :" g.
ew England for it and you never need 81
be afraid but what it will come.
| believe you're right, says the Cine
j.. for Notwithstanding all | could do fr
ith my Proclamation against nullifca- s
IN, believe | should have rubbed
Ird if there had been no such men in N'
C country as Major Downing s. Dan al
Webster. W
But this Modification business is mt ar
lied yet. The tops are beat down, but p
C roots are alive as ever, and spread -
y under ground wider and wider, and u"
c Of these days when they begin to
rouf I'm a1ain there III he "a touUherI