Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1834-07-17
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Daily advertiser.
My last letter TO you teiled you about
the unsaftsiniy OF elder bark tea. unless
great care was taken Ia scraping the bark
Tor lis iist rs Doctor Parsons tell'd IN,
good old mother; II its scraped both ways
there is no tellin how things win work
Aud its here list so with "the Govern
ment''-- and the folks about the Gincrsl
was always scrapin both ways. and things
was gettiB worse aud worse | used &c
tell the Ginefal when | was with him, he
better let the Senate have a hand ia d.
reciin this matter; that there warni in all
creation set OF folks who knew so well
what was right to be. done, and when irou
bles did come, who knew how to git the
Gineral out out quicker than they did;
but the Gineral wouldn't give up till 10th
er day, when he couldn't git by it. and the
Senate got a chance TO scrape leeile
bark for The Government" and in less
than no tame il went jist as the people ex
pected il would, and jist as they waited L
TO work; il has clceied out MIR. fancy and
MIR. Stevenson already, and good jag
more would follow if the Senate gifts an
other chance al scrapin the Dark.
Some folks. and especially them who
want or expect offices. think that the &c.
nate ought io do jist what the Gineral tells
en- but thai.ain my notion, for don't
lseo why the people should be at the ex
pense of having Senate II that Is 10 be
the rule. The Senate has got notion
| that it is their duty to see that no ni.an
gets al eE.sg saith their consent unless he
wifi discharge It's duties for the goods tne
hull people and not for party. and this -
jist my notion too for il is a plagy hard
bafgsin for all parties TO be eaiid on TO
pay wages 10 an office holder, and he ~
turn ony to work fol ono pariy-ihat Amt
natural justice. Ii a man in office IS oiy
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 are elected TO office they
have only got 10 sarse the party VINO vo
ted for EN-, and look upon all the rest as
set Of Aigereens; and they so on reward
IN friends and punishln enemies, till every
idle vagabond who 10 too lazy 10 gu an
honest liyln by labor, works himself INTO
pod fat office, jlst because he has bee0
cryin about tavefns and grog shops, "glo-
nv and REFORM" and " he spolls of lie
enemy belong 10 the victors" Now, my
notion is, its hIsh Time 10 put stop TO this
kind OF business, and g,t things back agin
% law and common justice. lie country
has got emf OF '.giory and REFORM" and
the victors have got 'sp,tes' EMU for one
spell. and The only peacesbie way TO GIT
the country out oil The scrape, as for the
ipeople whose pockets have TO pay for all
tins glory and spiies to turn right to, and
at the next election see that no msn goes
TO Congress unless he IS the right KIND oil
stuf No good farmer ever expects TO
raise clean harvest o wheat, II he don't
look out sharp g. cuI Oh OF The seed wheat
he plants, all the sIuuity grams, and the
dock seed, aud wild Unions; for II he plants
any of them he will be bo,her'd most
lplaguily when grindln time comes; 4 hand
/ full oil wild Ini0ns will spool a hull grlsi.
aud all the family viii be eatin lnion bread
and puddin the hull season threw; j.st for
want Of leeile care ia piantin tune.
Ii wont do no good TO be a bothefin ye
|. about who is 10 he next PRESIDENT; his tune
en- uif to select miller when we've got th'
harvest home and all thrash'd out, IL vii
be enuf TO see that we get good n Jnes
lmilIer then. But il we begin now afors
we have planted our new crop, and say
leo and so shall he our miller, and no body
Ielse, some other folks who want to be mil
Hers, may go to work jsst out OF spite, ana
sap his mill dam or cut his gearing, and
lllen we shall git into new fight and be
toeglectin the most important part OF ouI
business, which is first TO git clean crop
and then select the most honest miller to
grind for US.
We have got piagy raft OF garlic. and
mullen, and dock weed IN the present
Congress. and that's the reason the bar
vest amt worth noihin. The Senate is III,
! best part ont, and if it warnt for some
|, folks there, things would be pretty sguaIlj
and there wouldn't be seed enuf left Il
: Iplant a new crop. don't believe IN ere
!. Ia,iou we could fild a set oil folks who de
! lsesye more the support OF every homes
: Imam and true pailiot in the country thai
!. 1.-THE Senate we've got now; and every TIM
!, Ii listen to 'em aud mix IN among 'em, an
: see how they battle agin the storm that
7 Ian the while peI,ing 'em, cant help thin
. kin of time had once with Capt. jun
= liner. the arst time be made trip IN th
= sTwo Pollies" from Kennebunk