Litchfield enquirer., 1835-02-26
WASHINGTON CirY, Dec. 1, 1884.

WASHINGTON CirY, Dec. 1, 1884.
 DEAR SIR:-l suppose the Democratic Convention IS in earnest in recommending me to be President ofthe us There is SD much trickery about that thing now days, and SO many sham nominations. just to make people shew their hands, that thought l would let you see that know thing or two myseifbe- fore stated how thankful nm for your pitch ing upon ne for the Presidency. But am sorry don't want the office just nOw-I am after another thing. I'm very candid man, and when my mind is fixed upon a matter. you might as well try to stop gunpowder half blown up, as stop noe. ! cant agree to be President.
 The next election for President and Vice goes ahead of all the elections that ever took place in America. except when Jefferson and the present Government" was el-ctrd.- Them two beat all creation, because they fought for the " democratic principle" Now l should think the Constitution quite gone un- less the "democracy'-lhat is, our side, ah the office holders in the country and in Wash ington City, and at New-York, and every where-carried the election in l 83G: To win that election we must give time to one anoth- CT. We must hang together like pitch pIas- ter to a bald pate. N" flying off-n" think ing for ourselves. One man must think for all. We musn't have but one candidate, and for that reason wont go upon the list. I'll be "voter," ard this is a big character. able to shoulder a steamboat, and carry any can didate that the caucus at Baltimore may set up against the people. Whats the people to a caucus? Nothing but dead ague to an earthquake.
 But, gentlemen, though cant take the ap- n NOl nj Inf o1f t.,ll you wont have to persuade him long neither He will play shy at first, owing to his nature :; but it ain't hard to bring him to. It is Mr.. Van Buren. Perhaps you never heard of him before. He never meddles in any body's bu- siness. have known him long time. and can assure you he is all sorts of great man. Where any other man has one good quality he has lots. We didn't set in the same chair together more than two years, hut fully half that time he was either in my lap or in his. exchanging compliments, so that know him better than book, and can say, take him up one side and down t'other, he is the most fit- ting man next to General Jackson, for the President. of any man that now hurrahs for hard money and the people. The way he is a Democrat is caution all over. He is dyed in the wool. through and through, and comes as near to the red brtches Of MT. Jefferson as new patch upon an old garment can be made. As 10 ability. he himself don't know how much he knows; and if he don't who can?
 He ain't like any other living cretur; he can't be attacked-fghts just as well behind as before-sees as well one way as another.- They say his life is like clean copy book 1; there is not blot in any part oft; not word nor letter scratched out, and every dotted and every [ crossed from one eend to tother. In his natural disposition, he is as tame as the present "government," and will just suit to come after it. The way his own State thinks of him Outshnes the yeler jackets. They have been stallfeeding him for 22 years. and have got him as slick as an ingon. His State 1 is the biggest in the Union-Las got two mill ions of peOple-42 members in Congress-the longest canals-the largest ships-more banks smaller notes. less cunning. and more hoDes- ty, than any State in the Union; and has nev- CT had President yet-a great reason this for giving her one now, though she has had three Vice Presidents out of seven, besides other high officers. from Alexander Hamilton down. But ignorant people with glib sort of tongue say, what has he done? They ought to ask what has he not done? Iwould not answer the first question so far as the peO- pie is concerned, but for his sake will tell you what Ee has done. And not tO get ahead of my story, will go back to the time he be- gan to be a politician. He set out with this ruie--never to choose sides till he found out which was which, and if he happened to make a mistake, it was nothing to nobody, and things soon got straight. He never was wrong in a. ny dispute if either side was right that is he Mas always right, unless both sides was wrong. Q kR hHln in M