Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-10-23

and so says he, you've got the kolaree. DO
tell saws + if that's all III soon fix that; and
wbv didn't YOU say so at first, instead OF tel
lin a body about that other pagy ailin and
with that went to work rite off putin things
% rights. The first go off | took leetle less
New England in my switchell; but that didn't
do much good; then agin | took u double
dose; but that only made things worse: it was
like pouring warm water dowh ones back on
a cold frosty mornin: it felt pIagy good whilst
YOU was at it, but in mint arter 1t was
worse and worse; at last stopped all kind OF
hard ticker, and artcr little spell felt pritty
chuck. | stuck to this plan few days and
kept cool and good natur'd, and eat nothing
but good sound food, and drank nothin but
clear cold water, and above all ! Kept up
pluck and trusted to Providence tor the rest;
and in less than one week there warnt mite
of no kind of premoni-torys, nor any Kind OF
tory about me, and was sound as grannit.
But had pretty tuff time ont tell you, Tor
accordin to the nature of all these kind of all
ms that has got any tory about EN-, ify you
don't stop EN- they go on and 60 on, till folks
90 into what Doctors call the eoiaps, and then
YOU turn as blue as an indigo bag, and Kam-
fire and Laudanum, and burnt Brandy, and
Kan pepper and mustard and hard rubbln
aint no kind of use-it's all over then.
land Mr.. Forsyth used to have good ma
nv long talks about it, and when | was busy
battlin agin them plagy premoni-torys he US
ed to call and see me, and | would talk over
matters with him. One day says ], Cover
nor, did you ever have notion that there is
q plapy strong likeness between the natur OF
man and the natur of a nation? Well says
he, Major don't know exactly that there aint,
and then agin think there amt none at all.
Very well, says |, don't commit YOURSELF but
I've rot q notion says |, that there's plagy
strong likeness. Now says ] look at me;-
look at that are leg and that are arm, and this
hand, and see this breast, says |, and give
whack on it hmy hands, like asledge ham
mer on an anvil; now says ], aint that altoge-
ther pritty considerable pattern OF nan!-
Is there any thing of rot about that says ?
nothn says he that know on, except that
plagy premoni-tory; well says |, that amt no.
thin yet, and scarcely feel it; yes says he, but
If you don't put stop to 1t, MAJOR, 1t VIII
reckon lead to trouble putty soon;-well says
l., that's true enuf, Governor, and l know as
far us experience goes, many as stout and as
strong chap as | am now, on Thursday, aint
been worth the labor of burying him Satur-
day. Now says that's the natur of man;-
and now let US look at the natur of n nation
and instead of goin all about creation let us
look at home-here is a pattern Of nation
worth loukin at and there alnt nothln in any
part of creation that can hold u candle to it.
Twelve million Of folks all strung together by
a constitution and set of laws, made by
themselves for their own security and happi-
ness-and every thing so accurately ballan-
ced and checked, that nothing but wilfulness
can throw it out or gearing. But says !, like
me- it has got some ailin now about it-thcre
is premonitorys, says /, at work upon 1t to u
sartnty, and there must be stop to EN-, or
things will look blue enuf pretty soon, and
nothn will save it from colaps, then all's over
with u.s. and we shant be bit better off than
some of the Portugees und Spanish nations in
South America.
There aint, says /, no man living, who
thought he would do so much good as the
Gncral thought he could, aiore he got to be
the Government bnt somehow it turns out
tother way, and believe it all comes from
the listening Gineral to the kind of folks who
like themselves better than they do him or
the country, and turning away from him his
best friends and the best friends of the coun-,
try. The worst ont is, says |, the Gineral
thinks that every man who has different,
opinion of his measures, is not only his enc
my, but the enemy of his country. When the
Gineral writ that letter to MIR. Munro and
tcll'd him to be the President of the country,
and not Of a party, every sound patriot said
that's sound doctrine. When he said that
members of Congress hadn't ought to be ap-
pinted to office under the Government; every
body said that's pretty sound doctrine; and
when he said that the patronage OF the Gov
crnment hadn't ought to come IN conflict with
the purity Of elections, every body said that's
role sound doctrine. lie said good many
good sound things, but these are enough to
talk about now. WE'LL now every man who
amt of the Gineral's party is considered a
scamp, and not to be trusted-that amt sound
practice, for have notion there are good
many folks as pure and patriotic as ever liv-
ed, who aint ofthe Gineral's party. Then a.
gin the Gineral has appinted more members
of Congress, than you can shake stick at
but tho that amt accordin to his promise, yet
| don't complain ont, for its hard for any class
of men to be cut off from serving their coun-
try, if they are fit for it-so that was bad
promise, better broke than kept. But what
lifts my dander is about the Government Of
ficers mixin in elections, for right in the face
and eyes Of what the Gincral said, there amt
no sich active folks at the polls, as the folks
who have got office. Now, says |, there is
the head man of the hull on em-the neat
Government himself-what is he about, says
IL suppose, says I, he was afraid that the
" patronage of the Government would come
in conflict with the purity Of elections-that
nothing would do but he must go and look to
it himself and see that all went right" Well,
Major, says Mr.. Forsyth, that is no doubt
true enuf, for there aint no man so particular
about these matters as Mr.. Van Buren,
Well, says I, that makes me think of old Je-
thro Gleason, the miller, and his two sons
every time the boys was busy baggin up a
grist to the customers, old Jethro was sure to
.o,,,o in aud eovs be Elihu haint Won taken