Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-02-20

! too much-there amt no ullification no where 4
particular, but its all notification about US, an
all hands are formin ring and closn in upon u
here, pretty much like a wolf hunt-they al
say we have taken the money that belongs to tn
people, and the people wont be content till W,
give IT up-that's pretty much the nub of tn
business-and We shall have petitions and memo
rails from all quarters tumblin in upon us, and j
we don't mind them, they will be followed b,
hard nocks, jst like the story in the Old SpelIir
Books about the old man driven the boys from
his apple tree-he throw'd grass first, and tina
don no good, he tried stones, and that brought
EN- down pritty quick.
The Gneral he begun to git in pashin-and
says he MAJOR Pm gittin mad. Very well SAYS
Gineral l'll keep cool accordn to agreement;
and with that the Gineral Slated round a spell
with his hickory, and talked about New Orleans
and Siminoli-and the Grand tower-and | sat
Within all the while-why Major says the Gin
eral I'll never give up the deposItes in the world
what says ! mot if the people say we was
wrong in takin EN-? Suppose the people say the
Laws are agin US, what then? Wei says the
Gineral Iye tell'd EN- that the Laws are ony lest
as understand 'em, and nothin else. Now says
Gineral, suppose Clay, or Calhoun, or Web
ster, was in your office and said Jest so-and YOU
was IN Congress, or was one of the people and
! didn't agree with 'em-how then says II o, says
/ the Gineral that's a very different thing-any
i one of them fellows would be dangerous to-trust
with any kind Of power. Well says | my notion
is, however, that the law don't can to trust no.
body-and as | am peskily afeard one or tother
OMEN will git in here alter we go TO the Hermit
tagc-l don't want TO have any thing done now by
us that they will do, and then tell us they ony
do what we did. That's the only thing that
/ puzzles me-for says /, Gincral, sass for the
goose ought to be sass for the gander too
Well, says the Gineral, there is somethin in
, that Major-but says he, cant give up the depo-
sits any how: Amos says we must hold ON 20
'em, and all our folks say so too. Yes, says /,
Gineral, its true enuf the hounds have got the
stag down, and got a taste on him afore the hun
tiers came up, and suppose there will be leeue
left but the horns and trotters but says !, 1t amt
right, and the people will tell us so you may de-
pend and all have TO say Is, II what we have
done is 10 be the rule hereafter, don't know but
l should like to be President myself; for folks
might make laws, and all I'D have to do would
be list to understand 'cm accordin to my notion
don't see Major, says the Gineral, how ii is
you git SIGH odd notions about public sentiment
! know ! cant be mistaken, for every letter
have time to read tells me ana right and ! read
the Globe from one cend to tother every day +,
and that paper tells every thing, and see nothin
there that tells me | am rong-WeD, says J.,
Gineral you know you haint got time to read
more than one letter in hundred that comes.
That's true enuf, says the Gineral, but then our
folks do, and they tell me evry thing Tell
YOU evry thing? says but no matter'-and so
| whistled Yankee Doodle spell. mo, no,
Major, says the Gineral, the opposition folks
throw dust in your eyes, you don't see things as
clear as the rest of our folks about u.s. jest
was goin TO speak, but findin my dandcr was lift
ing, / had to go to whistlin agin, and it took me
nigh upon fifteen minits to git right, and ] ex-
pected every mint l would have to get my
and split hickory spell in the bargain. Now,
says Gineral, you are the ony man on earth I'D
look at mint, and let him say so TO me. got
dust in my eyes, says II know what is going
on in doors and out of doorsr why says ], how
oil NOxu 1osf
and I'll show you something says ], worth look
ing into-and ] went into a room where Mr.. IAN
Buren, and Amos and some more OF our folks gIt
together every once and while, to manage and
talk over matters, and Pve so much of the
games play'd there, and bein naturally curious
in most matters, play some on en- nigh
upon slick as Mr.. Van Buren, himself-but he
is master hand at it. The game they had been
playin most at, latterly was about nianagin the
public money among the new Deposit Banks, and
shown how 10 use the transfer cheeks and con,
tngent drafts so as to puzzle folks in time and
need. 1t was done with parcel of cups and
balls and little strips of paper-and did tickle
me amazingly; and for a spell puzzled me too
and so l tho't I'd jist show the Gineral, and see
if it wouldn't tickle and puzzle him too. And l
thought I'd let the Gineral see if there warn't a
leetle dust in his eyes too. And SO brought IN
hull arm full of this machinery. And as soon
as the Gineral saw me, why. says he, MAJOR
what on earth have you got there?-Why, says
L. its riic, and I'll tell you all about it to rights
And so placed the cups bottom up, all along in
a row on the table, and then Igin the Gineral a
hand full of small balls. Now, says j, Pm goin
TO show you about as cute thing as you've seen
in many day, them cups We'll call banks, ana
them balls is the money we took from Squire
Bddes Bank; the next thing is 10 show you how
things are gon 10 work, now that we've got our
money from one pocket, where we always
know'd where TO find it, and divided 1t round
among twenty pockets, where may be you may
or may be you may not lind notbin at all on t.
and here says are some leetle pieces OF paper
that Pm gon to make use on to throw dust with
now saws | Gineral look sharp or you're gone
hook and line says /. Its plagy cunning game,
and don't know sartin, that can play 1t as wen
as Mr. Van Buren, and Amos and some more oil
them are folks and especially the Treasury foiks
for they have been at it now of and ON ever SINCE
| Pve been here--and Mr.. Van Buren, teli'd EN-
unless they could play this game well, there
was no use in takin away the deposites. NOW
saws Gineral Pll begin-you are sartln says
| there is ball under ev'ry cup-O yes says the
Gincral, for jest put EN- there, and then began
slidin the cups by each other, and mixln on EN-
| and kept talkin about Glory and Reform. ana
! the sth January and the Proclamation, and Veto,
4 and Modification, and some folks here IKE oio
| Romans born TO command and others TO obey,
| and so on--and Jest as the Gineral took his eye
| off the cups and looked at me, and was goin 10
saw something, | slap'd some cups together ana
| cali out nOcus poous, "hS''h PN,rS
nIurebus unum, sine qua non skiry factions say
There says / Gineral that's the een'd ont.
| Well saws the Gineral don't see much IN tha'
| Maior-didn't you says then so much the pet
ter for the game suppose then says j, you
| think the balls are under the cups Jest as you
nut them. To be sure do, says the Ginerai,
suspected what you was alter Major, and KEEP
NV eve on the cups, and no balls ever got iron
| under EN- without my seein en- ia stake my my
life ont says the Gineral, and whats mort
stale the fastest horse in my stable, that every
one of the cups has got ball under EN-. Wen
savsI C;ineral, it wouldn't be fare bettin, an'
SO do YOU 60 to work and look. And the time Ie,
raj, he lifted up one cup, and there warnt NOTHING
under it, but piece OF paper The Giher ar ~
was stump'd: he LOOKED at me and gin ms lace
twist and then he look'd in the cup and shool
it We'll, says he Major, that is plagy odd
wba, has become of that balR Well says J,