Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-31
MAJ DowNsNG,s CORRESPONDENCE,
IN ma old friend Mr. Dpoight Of the NslO York
Daslu Advertiser.
WASHINGTON, 20ln Jdnua

w WASHINGTON, -H0lll Jdiuoi
1yer since I and the Gineral settled the Post
oficeT accounts. as tell,d you in my last, by
charging the amount that Major Barry IS astafn
70 q 5sloryu and /" REFORM" the GIneral has
been more easy about it than am afeard otnef
folks be. especially some ofthe opposition ioiKs
in Congress; they keep smellln rouhd-dnu ull-
less we can git up another nuliicauon tneie
will be trouble not only ABOUT .he Fost oi ms
business but some other branches OF Inc De-
partments
CONGRESS keeps hammering away yet about
tbe denosits and the Gneral was jlst agoln TO
give up when we got the news from Albany OF
the vote the Legislator there in favor OF the
Gineral in taking away the Deposits rom the
United States Bank, and the vote OF the view
Jersey Legislatur. and strong news too that
some other Legislators w'd do the same. I.le
Gineral was amazingly tickled, and says ne
Major, reckon your notion that the people
warnt with us on that pint is mistake, ana now
says the Gineral, Pll hang on and keep the De.
posts and Bddle may whistle for en-" Well, )"
saws 4" Gineral, we'll see and as said afore if
the people don't tell their Legislature another
story, and Congress too afore we are month
older, then" says l. C know nothing on en-"
Very we'll Major, says the Glneral Wen
see-and lest then in come Amos and the Globe
man. and some more of our. folks and lookln
pretty streaked too and got notion right OH
there was somethin stirn-and SO they began
bin all the people he could to sign petitions to
f; Congress, asking to put back in the Bank all
the deposits agin, and to re-charter the Bank
! /" Why" says the Gineral, g Amt that too bad
Major--we must give the Bank says he that La
tin pill there is nothing will stop EN- but that
skry factus," Cor some SIGH name the Cine
raj calls it, Now, says |, Gineral stop bit
says There is one thing puzzles me consldera-
BILE about this brbn busness-l should Ike TO
know who they be who are takin bribes-lt amt
in the natur Fittings, says |, for Squire Blddle
to bribe the friends ofthe Bank for that would
be useleSs--then, says l. 1t must be that he is
bribin the enemies of the Bank, and that's our
party. Now, says |; will You set by and near
folks say that our party is SIGH scabby set or
fellows as to take brbes-- if you do, says /, |
wont, and with that | riz up, but afore could
yit round the corner of the table | and the
Gineral was alone agln. | sat down and
said nothin---I gritted my teeth spell, but
! that didn't do much good--l took my knife and
whitfield the table, but that warnt much better,
and the ony way to rights that putme IN good
/ temper agin, was to whistle more than forty
varses of Yankee Doodle, for didn't like to
say word to the Gneral whilst was in pa
1 shin. The Gneral was all the while Walkln up
/ and down the rOOm--SO as soon as got through
whistin, says |, Ginera guess we best say no.
thin more about bribin, says |; well, says be,
! Major, reckon you are right, for the notion
}
ri chit upon the heads Of our friends, for they are
the ony ones that need brbn. Now, says |,
| Gineral. Jest lets you and sit down and talk
! over this business and I'll tell you like true
! friend, how the cat is goin to jump, and II 1t
don't turn out as tell you, IIl give you my AK,
and throw in my re9imentas IN the bargain; ana
so the Gineral he sot down. and went at IT.
In the first place says i'll git in pashln you
must keep cool-and fyou git in passion fll
! keep cool, but if we both git in pashln, then
there is no tellin--well says the Glneral that is
a good notion Major, for that's jest the way the
Ingins do, and they larn wisdom from natur;
YOU never see an Ingin and his squaw git drunk
together-When one gifts drunk tother keeps So
Der, and so they take turn and turn about. Wei
/ says |, | never herd that afore, but | suppose
tho they git along better when they are both So
Der. yes says the Ginerai, in war time that
is best but not in treaty time.
Well says that's no matter, that amt exactly
what | am arter, but lve got notion out ont
which III begin with: Some years ago the an
KEGS got drunk and got up kinder notification:
there warnt much in it arter all, according to
my old friend Dwight's book-but folks South
thought there was, and so they kept sober and
last year the South got drunk, and then all
North kept sober and that frolic is ended. Now,
says l. North and South and East and West are
all sober and all shakin hands, and they say toe
have been taken a drop too much-there amt
all notification all about us, and all hands are
formin ring and closin in upon us here, pretty
much like a wolf hunt--they all say have t.
ken the money that belongs to the people, and
the people wont be content till we give itHp--
that's pretty much the n~b of the business-and
we shall have petitions and memorials from all
quarters tumbIin in upon US, and if we don't
mind Them they will be FOLLOWED by hard nocks,
list like the story in the Old Spen Books about
the old man drivin the boys from his apple tree
he throw'd grass first and that doin no good,
he tried stones, and that brought EN- down prit-
ty quick
The Gneral he begun to git in pashin; and,
says he, Major, Pm gittin mad. Very well, says
|, Gineral, Pl keep cool, accordin to agreement
land with that the Gineral Slated round a
spell with his hickory, and talked about New
Orleans, and Simnol, and the Grand tower;
and l sat Within all the while. Why Major,
says the Gneral, Pllnever never give up the de-
posites in the world. What, says |, not if the
people say we was wrong in takin EN-? Suppose
the people say the laws are agin us, what thena
Well, says the Gneral, rve telPd EN- that the
laws are only jest as understand them, and no.
thjOO else Now T Ciperal Claw