Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-10-29

! phien, there was many in the field. The Gin.
cral j. 50 afraid Mr., Van Buren, will get worked
out ont, he don't know what to do. So he said hs
aud better hold still little while, and let Blair
and kcnde figure il. And that's tho reason yod
haven't heard any thin; from mo and the Ginerai
Tor some time. Z agfa
We've kept almost as siD as two mice in q
chocAc--ha,- MT been out hardly where. only
jest TO take a walk over tho new Potomac Bridge
and few SIGH notions but have stayed in the
house and read the newspapers, and the Gin
cral has sot down regular every forenoon and
over, afternoon and smoked his pipe, and
we've talked matters over to ourselves, and
once IN awhilo Mr.. kcndlc and Mr.. Blair have
come in and talked with and told how things was
going. Tho Gneral kept pretty easy till Ginetsl
Harrison begun 10 come up, and ever since that
he, been nc,,lcd good deal. He saya he ISM
NIGH, afraid In, wha, Mr.. Van Buren, can stand
| against all the rest OF en-, but since Harrison has
kicked up such dust he can, tell how matters will
turn. lie watched the Ohio and kentucky pa.
pcrs along back pretty close, and can always tell
when he, reading something about Harrison in
en-, for his pipe stcan,s and pulls away like the
FIRE III a coal-kill. And ibis morning, when the
news from Phadcph, that the Wings had
carried all the city in choosing the election judges,
he had quite tanlrnm. lie stat two pipes into
the fire before he got done reading it, and smash.
cd them all to pieces, and ,hen he got up and
marched across The iloor, and got into SIGH u
r,gc did'n, know but should have to send for
Blair Bn, got him to talking, and when can
onl, ~, him to talking, | can generally coolh
down. fr#
SO navs !, Ginernl what's tho use Of thinking
much about Philadelphia Phadclply amt all tho
world nor all the United States mother, I guess
Ne, say. he, know that, Sargent Joel In, ev-
crv crittur in thi. world has head, and whicl,ev-
way the head goes the body most always follow!
Now had rather gin twenty thousand dollars
than to hear this news from Philadcphy. Phila-
dcphy is the head OF Pennsylyany, and Pcnnsyl-
vany YOU know il called the key stone Of the fed
rra arch and that's about as much MS TO make II
the head OF the country. I'm more afraid Of that state
than any IN the union for when they got going
there cant never tell where tlcy'll stop, they
carr, every Thing all aforc en-. They are begin,
nng thcrr for Harrison good deal rs they begun
for me- No body though, should be President
no more than nothing NJ ALL till the Pcnn>vlvs-
ny boys took hold Of my nomination md then
yon see how quick they rowed me up to the top VI
the tide, and carried me in as strong seventy
four
But ,,,, l. Gincra, you f, the battle Of New
Orleans, and that's what made en- fight sharp
for you. Nobody else ever tit that battle, you
know, 80 take j, Pcnns,yany boys nor no other
boys won, fight so sharp for any body else a. they
did for YIN. 8
Well, says the Gincral, may be they won't bot
Harrison the nearest to me ri any the can
didars-1t's true he never 1T the battle Of New
Orleans but then he tit Two three other cOnside.
rablc battles and the Pcnnsy lvany boys have
found it ont, and that's what makes me feel 50 UNI
easy for ltihcy only got to calling him hero
pretty loud all over tho G., untrv, I'm afraid it's
gone goose with Mr. Van Buren,.
But, ,a,s ], Gincral, do you think General Har-
rison is qualified for the office Do YOU spose he
can write great long messages 10 Congress, and do
all sch Kind Of things
AT that the Ginrial lrawcd his face up into ono
Of the queorrs, looks that ever | him pu, on.
md says he, Sargent Joel, ] see you don't know all
out politics vet. To tell YOU the truth, Jest be.
tween YOU and me, but o course You II always keep
it TO yourself never writ one OF my long messages
TO Congress, in my life.
SavsI, Gneral, voudon't sa, 81. Did't you write
thai proclamation that lu, nulliica,on downl
No, say, he, not a line oft, nor none Of the rest
Of tho long YARNS that have had my name to en-
since I've been President.
Well, says how do you work it
Why, says he, there's always men enough to
do them things IN toller of the cabi-
nets And all YOU have to do is to tell en- little
what sort OF notions you want put into a message,
and then put your nancto it. oyou see any body
can make President, whether he can write mnrh
or not.
But ,ay,l, Gincral, do you think that is good
way,
Good ~ay, sa,s he, VIII, yes it is the best way
in the world. and the most respectable way It's
the way al! tho kings in Europe do. The king Of
England would laugh in your face if YOU should
ask him to set down and write hong yam to
Parliament with his own hand. And our cOun-
try now is getting ,ich and growing old, and we
must Try to be spectacle The old countries in
Europe.
tell YOU, say, the Gneral, any body will do for
President if YOU once get hir,,n. And any
body get in il he has only fit big Battles enough
I'D give whole years salary in minute if Mr..
Van Buren, had ever fit a great battle, so as to DO
called hero. Ihcr'd be no difficulty then to
make tho Baltimore nomination go down.. But as
matters now stand I'm afraid Harrison will run a.
head of him. Now. says he, Sargent Joel. I've
got proposition to make to you. fou are pref
~ keen with pen, and so is your cousin, the Ma
jor.-Now if YOU will put your heads together, and
so TO work and write history of some great bat
tie, and make MIR. Van Buren, the hero of it, so
To get him in President, you shall have ten
thousand dollars apiece, and your pick out If any
OF the officers in the government that amt promi-
scd
There, Cousin Jack, what say you to that Let
us 80 to work and see five hatch up xon,e-
thing. You begin at one end Of the story. end I'll
begin at the other, and when We meet, Jest publish
it in the Downing Gazette. and l guess wen get
money and our Offices.
Your Loving cousin,