South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1834-07-19
Major Downing.
SENATE CHAMBER.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 20, 1884.

York Daily Advertiser.
My last letter to you te!l'd you abou,
the unsartinty Of elder bark tea, unless
lgreat care was taken in scrapin the bark,
for its jist as Doctor Parsons teIl'd my
Igood old mother fits scraped both ways
there is no tellin how things will work.
And its jist so with "the Government
and the folks about the Gneral was al
ways scrapin both ways; and things was
gettin worse and worse. l used to tell
the Gineral when was with him, he bet.
ter let the Senate have hand in direc,in
this matter; and there warn't in all crea-
ton set of folks who knew so we'll VIVA,
was right to be done, and when troubles
did come, who knew how to git the Gin
eral out en'n quicker than they did but
the Gineral would'n. give up till toiher
day, when he couldn't git by it, and the
Senate got chance to scrape a leetle
bark for "the Government" and in less
than no time it went jist as the people ex.
pected it would, and jist as they wanted
it to work it has cleared out Mr.. fancy
and Mr.. Stevenson already, and good
ljag more would follow if the Senate gifts
another chance at scrapin the bark.
Some folks, and especially them who
want to expect offices, think that the Sen.
ate ought to do jist what the Gineral tells
'em-but that amt my notion, for / don't
see why the people should be at the ex-
pense of having Senate if that is to be
the rule. The Senate has got a notion
that it is their duty to see that no man
! gets an Office with their consent, unless
he will discharge its duties for the good
of the hull people, and not for party,
and this is just my notion too, for it is a
plaguy hard bargain for all parties to be
calPd on to pay wages to an Office holder,
and he in turn ony TO work for one party,
that amt natural Justice. ifa man in Of
flee is ony to work for sd party'' then that
party ought to pay him his wages.
Times have got so now that most folks
think, when they are elected to office,
they have ony got to sarve the party
who voted for 'em; and look upon all the
rest as set of Algireens and they go on
I"rewsrdin friends and punishin enemies y
it'll every idle vagabond who is too lazy
to git an honest Twin by labor, works him
self into good fat Office, jist because he
has been cryin about taverns and grog
shops, "glory and REFORM" and "The
spoils Of the enemy belong to the victors.'
Now, my notion is, its high time to put q
stop to this kind of business, land git things
back agin to law and common justice.-
The country has got enuf of "g.ory ana
rel FORM" and the victors have got "spiles'
enuf for one spell, and the only psacea
BILE way to git the country out of the
scrape, is for the people, whose pockets
have to pay for all this "glory and spiles,
to turn right to, and at the next election
see that no man goes to Congress unless
he is ofthe right kind Of stuff-No goos
farmer ever expects to raise clean har
vest of wheat, he don't look out SHARP
land Gull out the seed wheat he plants, al
the smutty grains, and the dock seed
and wild Unions; for if he plants any
of them he will be bother'd most pla
Igiy, when grindin time comes; hand
ful of wild Inions will spoil hull grist
land all the family will be eatin Inion,
bread and puddin the hull season threw
:. list for want of leetle care in planti
time.
j 1t won't do no good to be botherin yet
bout who is the next President-iis tim
enuf to select miller when we've &c
the harvest home and all thrash'd out
! will be enuf to see that we get good hon
D est miller then. But five begin now a
lfore we have planted our new crop, an
1 say, so and so shall be our miller, add n