Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-02-27

reacneu NY arm out OF PED 10 get one oi
the Gineral's pistols to strike light
for he wont have any other finder box,
ever since he was in camp and some.
how movin chain, l nocked down my
ak that l always keep by me at night,
and bang went the helve against some
thin or other, with a noise li.e ihun-.
der-clap.
The Gineral started right up on his
feet in minit.-Major, says he, what's
tbat?" So l told him. Very well, says
the Gineral, that wont want much look
in after; but, says he, l was dreamin jist
then, and l thought it was the Bank
tumbled in, and smashn work it was,
sure enough.
GineraI, says you're the man for
President, at all rates, for you don't take
your mind off from public affairs day nor
night. Now says ], was never quite
sartin about your bein in the right of it,
when you recommended that the Presi-
dent shouldn't serve but one term; cause
there was Washington he served two
terms and Jefferson, he served two
terms; and Madison, and Monroe, and
here's yourself too servin two terms. -
So all the Presidents has served two
terms except Adams, that was turned
out, because he made the alien and Sc
dtion laws, and tother Adams cause he
was his daddy's son. But, says /, if all
Presidents will do as you do, and attend
to the public business both asleep and
awake, they can do the duty of two
terms in one, and this will be givin the
country all the benefit, while fist twice
as many Of our friends can have a
chance to get the glory of being respon-
sible for the public welfare; so think its
a good notion, arter all: but suppose
you didn't find il out entirely, till your
second term had began. Exactly so,
says the Gineral; but my opinion is all
the better, l reckon, accordin as l have
had the longer experience.
But, says ! Gineral, what inemy have
you been fightin to-night-for, seems to
me, you've been pritty busy that way
too, as well as lookin after the Govern
ment. How SO, says he. Why, says !,
| heard you first talkin somethin about
"Council of War;" and 'obeyin orders;'
and then you gave the word of COM
mand jist as you did when you showed
me the way you beat the British at New
Orleans, and how you meant to do in
South Carolina, if Calhoun and Hayne
didn't mind their eye. Ha! ha! says the
Gineral, in laff, you're on the rong
track tho this time, Major. l didn't
know as ] spoke out, but ! was thinkin
about the Bank, and / went over again
all the business since / read my paper
to the Cabinet, and Duane undertook to
refuse TO obey orders-and you know,
Major, that wont d. Where would the
country be in war time, if the officers
and soldiers didn't obey orders True
enuf, says /, but-Well, says the Giner-
al, that's what was :alkin about yeck-
on. Thin begun TO think of what Mr..
Van Buren writ to me respectin it-how
he was pleased to find that unde rstood
the true sense Of the Constitution, and
the rights and powers of the Executive,
and that was a goin to put down the
Bank, and bribery and corruption, and
foreign stockholders, like second
Washington, (and he believed some Of
them foreigners might have bribed Du-
ane, because his father was a foreigner;)I
and jist then, Calhoun and Clay, and a,
raft more, came up to me and said they
wanted a copy 0G my puper to the Cabi-
net. "Veto," says l,-so they wheeled
and run off; and as they turned round l
see Biddle standin behind EN- with a.
handful Of Bank bills, and heard him
whisperin somethin about restorin the
DePosites. Says l, my lad, you'll new
er get hold of EN- again so long as my
name is Van Buren, mean jackson;
and If ketch you here another time,
says l, then look out for the second Sec
tlon. Hocus pocus, says somebody, and
they all DISAPPEARED like a fash.-"By
the ivin, Major, there they be now"--I
says the Gineral, and as sure as rats,
there was the hull on EN- standin jist as
the Gineral said, aginst the wall.
We both Of us sprung right out of bed ;
l feIt arter my ak, and the Gineral for
one Of his dirks. j got hold Of mine first
and was jest a goin to make at 'em-for
nobody amt allowed to come into my
chamber in the night-when the Gineral
called out, "stand away and let me have
a fair fight" but afore he got half way
acrost the room they had all vanished
How now! says the Gineral. More mic
remancy says !, and then we went TO bed
again.
In the mornin, says the Gireral, says
he, Major, this nickremancy is a queer
business, and don't altogether like it.
| want to know if MIR. Van Buren, pas
the one that brought it here. Mr.. Kin
die tell'd me so, says l. Well, says the