Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-07-25


I Portsmouth to take US when we got there.
One long-winded fellow was to make
speech Of three hours, all about our sill
ling the measure &C." and just as soon
as he was done, another fellow from the
committee No. 2, was going to give 1t to
ms for six hours more. When the Pres
ident heard that, he hopped up quicker
than lightning, and says he "MaJor
Downing, can't stand that. ! aint go
inc TO be talked to death, and you may
tell them so. Why, sir" says he, "thrce
and six are nine ! Nine hours speaking
in one town. It's worse a dish
sight than Calhonn's defence of Nullifi-
cation, or John Quincy Adams letter on
Ant-masonrv. No; no; l'll show those
fellows trick worth two of that. Call
in Recside that Conkcy. He's the
whip for me. Tell him 'cant him to run
away with me. III not be killed with
the Portsmouth speech-that's Hat.
| "Major Downing" says he, and !
never saw him more in earnest) 81 abo-
inmate long speeches, think it good
cause for removing man from any Of
flee in the country. My toast about the
union, and my speech TO the committee
at Roxbury the other day, are worth
more thar n volume of your long yarns,
that nobody has patience to hear am
| off, sir" And off we come faster than
Kentucky race-horse. One of the New
! Hampshire committee, that come along
with us to-day, told me, that the reason
why we travelled so much faster than
usual, was because we were going over
a Contemplated Railroad. lie says,
that the stage coaches have arrived one
hour earlier at Concord, N. ii. every
day since their Legislature passed the
act for the Railroad Company. Il
mean TO tell Major Barry this; and have
some more routes Contemplated immedi-
ately for our fast mail
! We had glory enough for one day, l
can tell YOU when we were in this town
last week. We showed the ivory when
we stood and see fre miles of girls,
and fifty thousand yards Of Bishops
! Lawn all 90 by us in row. J thought,
at first, that the President wouldn't stand
! it. Bat faith, there is nothing that put
life into him so since the Seminole war.
II Just as they had all got by, he turned
! round to me, and seized hold Of my
! hand, and says he, "Major Downing,
! Pm glad killed Packenham. l wish
there were forty more just such fellows
here to day. I'd kill every one Of them. "
The President had got a little into his
war trim. He felt just as | do. He
could not bear to see so many ladies,
, without fighting or doing something OF
other. I" Major Downing" said he
"what is the use ofyour telling me about
Pennsylvania Avenue, or Chesnut street
or Broadway, or Washington street,
they can't hold candle to Lowell. |
wish sir" said he, 81 wish l want but
I FIVE and twenty. Van Buren," says he,
"shaN put into my next message to Con-
gress, that | saw seven thousand of the
! prettiest girls in Lowell, that there is in
The whole world" When | found that
:, this was the way the wind blew, play
! cd my game; says to the President,
these are Downingrilie girls, | don't won
der you are so taken with them" Says
the President says he, ~ don't believe
it," Then he asked Woodbury. for he is
called very good judge Of the girl,
down east, where they come from. Anc
says Woodbury., says he, 81 am sure
Il can't tell--but never saw but one hand
somer girl in all the State of Maine thar
: these lve seen to day." and he winke'
at me, and says he, "Major Downing
0 think knows who that one is" Tha
stopped the President pretty quick from
; saying anything more about the Maine
girls.
I, Well what do you think Van Burer
did, saw him standing and racPing un
der their bonnets for two hours together
as they went by, and l expected ever,
: minute he would Jump out and catch ont
for wife; but no, he turned round ant
whispered to me so low that Cass ant
:. Woodbury. couldn't hear him, and say
= he, "What pity it is that these girls ar
, not rotsrs!m "Pooh" says ], "Mr Val
$ Buren,, what pity it is that they had'n
r all husbands! and what shame it is 70
such an old bachelor as you to stan'
S here and let so many good opportunities
, slip. Let me tell you sir" says /, "yo'
J ought to eat mouldy bread all your days
: and die in a garret at last for your indlf
D ference" lie turned pale under th'
7 "merited rebuke," as Duff Green call
it, and went off muttering something a
), bout what the Albany regency woul
say if he should get married, sc.
Just as soon as get home, mean
! build cotton mill and a machine I
II make calico, and another to manuiac
ture Bishops Lawn, to dress the girls in
There's nothing like it. And and tn