Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1835-11-26
Froas the Downi"g Gazette.
From WY Washington Correspondent.)

WASHINGTON ClTY, (E0st NOOm,)
l.. ssa.a s, t.... blOa.iay, Nov. 2, 1888. a.fE
TO cousin Major Jack Downing, editor Of the Down
ing Gazette, Portland, away down east III the state
Dear Jack-There seems to be an embargo ON all
our rainds now a-tiayp, and we doB't hardly kB"w
what To do nor what to says" l might AZ well hold
my tongue as to try TO write To you But will try to
say word two ina wiHe, 80 you needut think
I'm lost, that I've forgot you. About this Pres-
dency business: ii grows more and more notify every
day. and il's got iao such smart now dOR't see how
shall every get IL The geaera is pes&y afraid
Mr.. Van Buren, will get worked out after all. don't
know ever see hM madden, or ever see him break
more pipes in half an hour, than he did when we got
the news about the Tennessee Legislature going the
whole hog for White, and that, too, just after he had
sen, a whole lot Of extra Globes 10 the members,
picking Whites character bare a. ever you see
chicken's bones picked thanksgiving day. r
That morning the papers come from tennessee.
that brought the dons Of The egislaiure the gineral
III such puckcr to ct hold oC'em, tina. he did"
stop to eat mach reak fast, and he hurred me SO much
to get through that burnt my mouth with the coffee
and had to swalow half my vicuais without chaw'ng
Al last onk the papers and started of ini0 the east
room, and the gineral told TO read what the Ten
boys had been doin in the legislature nd ne
read along about the master great dinner they had
gin so Judge While, and Tie gnerHi began TO hitch
bout IN his chair though he setting net,les;
and when read along where they passed The resoi"
ton recommend ing Judge White for the presidency
by vote u 60 TO H. the ginerai c0uhn't stan 1t 40
though lie going to strip me all to pieces. He
casched the paper 0f my hands, and says he, sar
gen: Joel, 20" are making fool ofme.
Says l., no gi"eral, an', | o"ly read !! down jes
~ twas in tile paper Bot he wouldn't believe tne ill
he took his glasses and read il himself, and whe@ he
zee was all jest rs read it, didn't know b1t he
would few off the handle. ! rally believe il he had
been 10 Nashville then, he would have gone right Into
the legislature and drove every son-oi-agun Of 'em
out Of the state house. ,aa5
But says l. giuera, IT'S no use IRE, atos, Ten
essee IL IT'S all split milk in that state, crying about
il wont pick t"p again. You may well Sc, il dow"
long with Pennsylvany and lie, il go. You've got states
enough left Yeti CESS to bring Mr. Va" B"re" in. !
tor cant tell. Why, says haven't YOU got maj0r-
ity in Ohio = .'.- .,s '-;.' .. .-tr.
Ohio! says he, don't name it; I wouldn't give q fig
tor state that is up and Down a the time;
they are sure TO he against you es, when va" win,
Them. Well, says |, gi"eral, you've got maj "ry in
Georgia. TOO. At that the gi"era rather lurned u his
nose: says he, don't think much of Georgia. They
ought to have given US ten thousand maj 'riy there,
and instead of,hai, we have only our sover-
nor by the skin ofOur eeh And besides, this ah"li-
ton business will upset Georgia they will vote
for any body HOrth Of the Potomac.
Well, says I, einera, doH, you think 70" ca" save
Pennsylvania YETI You ku0sv the Wolfies and the
hi"les both your frieads, aad pat 'em together
and they outnumber RiUer But there's the trouble
ont, says the g"eral You cant put em together And
they have g" much 6ghing so do against each other
that they will never fight worth copper for me or Mr.
Van Barren. 7-". '-r... n ....s
Well, says I, gineral, you've got New-York lefi,
l'ave"t you Aud that state you know Is worth half
dozen little ones. SAYS he yes, spose can hold
on 10 New-YOrk, for f Mr.. Va" Buren, can" take care
M that state for himself won't trouble myself any
more about II.
Well. says I, ginernl, there's New Hampshire too,
you are Oftha ani yoa Yes, says, he, So long
as Isaac II III and Woodbury. lives have 40 doub, We
shalt have tina, state.
Wel says THEA there's tsVo sates AT least. And
where's the stale of Maine aint yea Of that too
The ginerai rolored little, and says he, spose
can have the state Of Maine il want IT, but il their
representatives to be posted up in congress as H.
ars, scoundres, and ards, | should be almost a
mind that's folks that sick take such doctor
stuff rs will cure 'em, and not mind the taste. Set
down ainea a"d thai makes three states that yoU
su'e Of Yes, says the gineral. and that leaves
,y-one that we aint sure Of, and he said that he
io'ched his teeth grit and bin his pine right of,
aud little crUmb oft got in his throat and him
time; aad I've heen figuring a numher Of times
snSe 10 see three states could elect Mr. Van Buren,,
aud cant make i out, no how sou can fix il.
auu remain your loving cousin,
t.... -.... Ia, ~. SARGENT JOEL DOWNING