Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-07-17

work. And its here list so with "lhe
Government"-and the folks about the
Gneral was always scrapin both ways,
and things was gcttin worse and worse.
used to tell the Ginoral whom | was
with him, he better let the Senate have
n hand in direc!in this matter; that there
want in all creation set Of folks, who !
knew so well what was right to be done,
and when troubles did come, who knew
how to git the Gincral out ont quicker,
than they did: but the Gineral wouldn't
give up till 'tothcr day, when he couldn't
git by it, and the Senate got chance .
TO scrapc a lcctlc bark for 'thc Gov
crnmcni," and in less than no time it
went jist as the people expected it would,
and jist as they wanted it to work; it has
clccrcd out Mr.. fancy and Mr.. Steven
son already, and a good jag more would
follow, if the Senate gifts another chance
at scrapin the bark.
Some folks, and especially them who
want or expect Offices, think that the
Senate ought TO do jist what the Cine
raj tells 'cm-but that aint my notion, for
] don't see why the people should be at
the expense of having Senate, if that's.
to be the rule. The Senate has got a
notion that it is their duty to sec 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 par
ty, and this is jist my notion too, for it is
plagy hard bargin for all parties to be
call'd on to pay wages to an ollicc-hol-
der, and he in turn ony to work for one
party--that aint natural Justice. If a
man in Office is ony to work for ga party"
then that party ought to pay him his
wages.
Times have got so now, that most folks
think when they arc elected to Office,
they have ony got to sarve the party
who voted for 'om; and look upon all
tho rest as n set of AIgcreens; and they
60 on "rcwarGin friends and punishin
enemies" till every idle vagabond who
is too lazy to got an honest livin by la
bor, works binsclf into a good fat Office,
jist because he has been crying about
tavcrns and grog-shops, "Glory and Re-
form," and "I'he spoils of the enemy
belong to the victors" Now, my no.
ton is, its high time to put stop to this
kind of business, and git things back a
gin to law and common justice. The
country has got enuf of "Glory and Re-
FORM" and the victors have got "spiies"
cnuf for one spell, and the ony peacea-
bic way to get the country out Of the
scrape, is for the people whose pockets
have to pay for all this "Glory s. Spilcs"
to turn right TO-, and at the next election
see that no man goes to Congress unless
he is of the right kind of stuff. No good
! farmer ever expects to raise n clean
! harvest Of wheat, if he don't look out
sharp and Gull out of the seed wheat he
plants, all the smutty grains, and tn C
dock seed, and wild onions; for if he
| plants any of them he will be bothcr'd
most plagily when grindin time comes; a
handful of wild Inions will spoil hull
grist, and all tho family will be oatin In
f iony bread and puddin the hull season
through, jist for want Of lectle care in
plantin time.
) 1t won't do no good to be bothcrin vel
about who is to be next President-it's
| time enuf to select miller, when we've
, got the harvest home and all thrash'd
out it will be enuf to see that we get q
good honest miller then. But if we be.
| gin now aforc we have planted our new
crop, and say, so and so shall be oul
, millcrs, and nobody else, some other
, folks who want to be mllcrs, may 90 tc
+ work jist out of spite, and sap his mil
, dam or cut his gcarin, and then we shall
/ get into new fight and be neglcctin the
= most important part Of our business
which is first to git clean crop, ant
then select the most honest miller tc
grind for us.
We have got plagy raft Of garlic
and mullen, and dock weed in the pre-
sent Congress, and that's the reason the
harvest aint worth nothin. The Senate
h is the best part ont, and if it warn't fol
some folks there, things would be pretty
Z squally, and there wouldn't be seed emu
h left to plant new crop. don't bolicv,
: in all creation, we could find set O
9 folks who deserve more the support o
every honest man and true patriot in tht
country, than tho Senate we've 90
: now; and every time | listen to 'cm, an,
o mix in among 'cm, and sec how they bat
tie agin the storm that is all the while
pcltin agin 'em, can't help thnkin of
time had once with Capt. Jumper, th'
first time he made trip in the "Tw,
y Pollics" from Kcnnobunk TO Charleston
h The "Two Pollics" was pretty ncv
then, and Capt. Jumper was shockil
proud on her; and l went along will
him, with some notions, bcin my first tri
o in trade to foreign parts. We went a
II lonr q smell pretty smooth. and the Cup